The document provides a summary of the genres, narratives, and key elements of three horror films: Psycho, Orphan, and Wrong Turn. Psycho follows a woman on the run who is killed by the owner of the hotel she stays at, who has dissociative identity disorder. Orphan follows a family who adopts a disruptive orphan who turns out to be a 30-year-old killer. Wrong Turn follows a group trapped in the woods who are hunted by cannibalistic inhabitants and killed one by one. All three films utilize common horror tropes and follow a three-act structure.

1. psycho Orphan Wrong turn
genre • Mystery thriller • Mystery, thriller • Thriller/ body horror
• loved up couple • Happy family • Location- forest, dark wood,
• Innocent victim • Innocent victims isolated
• Police men • Nun plays the part of a • Character- 6 people are
• Psychotic killer helper, and tries to help the tramped in the woods, one
• Props- knife, car, dead family research the orphan couple and 4 friends
animals • The killer is, young, childlike • Haunted down by
• Location- empty house, big/ feature, appear innocent. cannibalistic men who are
derelict, haunted house • The dad acts as a non disfigured from inbreeding.
• Sam risks his life for the girl believer. • Props- vehicle (car) barbed
he loves, along with her • Props- childish clothing (old wire to create a tramped
sister fashioned), chocker around effect, all wore casual
her neck, she uses weapons clothing
such as knifes, stones
• Modern house, next to a
lake and a field.
• The deaf child acts as the
helpers, she kills the orphan
and saves her mums life.
narrative • Psycho follows the three • Orphan like psycho follows • Wrong turn like many other
acts structure (tudorow) the three acts structure films follows the three act
• Innocent woman is fleeing (tudorow) structure (tudorow)
because she has stolen • family adopts a child • man takes a wrong turn in
money. • She becomes disruptive the road, he becomes
• A man falls in love with her • Her records are nowhere to trapped with another people
at a hotel and kills her. be found so the family begin • Go in to a isolated cabin, a
• Family try to investigate, and to become concerned hind human bodies
several of them become • The orphan manipulates the • The cannibal men come turn
victims family and ruins the happy up at the cabin to collect the
• Its reviled that the killer is family balance. bodies (the trapped men
the hotel owner dressed as • The daughter try to receive were hiding)
his mum affection from the farther • Cannibal men chased them,
• He is in a metal institute figure and is rejects one dies and the others
• This causes her to go on a escaped, slowly they were
killing rampage captured and one was killed.
• The mother and one • two people survived
daughter survive.

2. Claude Levi-Strauss
(binary oppositions) • opposition is seen in psycho as the main character has two personality, one which is sweet, the other a murderer
• binary opposition is used in orphan because there is a good Vs evil plot the main character is both innocent child and a 30 year old killer
• Someone who first appears to be helpful, is actually in cahoots with the cannibals, and caused the whole disruption.