I decided that for this assignment my focus is going to be on the 1996 movie “The Craft”. This movie follows the story of a teenage girl moving to a new school who falls into a group of teen witches. I would classify this movie as a Supernatural Thriller/Horror with an obvious protagonist and antagonist. This film uses witty teen angst to appeal to the ‘outsider’ teen audience, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4nPJh0jms4 as shown here. Later the girls develop a friendship and the characters become favorable to the audience. However, there is a turn of events and the new girl is turned on by her new coven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx07n7Eov0o In this scene, this what really classifies this film as a supernatural thriller, this is because the film uses suspense to get a reaction out of their audience.
The Exigence for the genre, is they are meant to captivate an audience using fear and suspense, in my opinion this is what classifies the film as a thriller. The audience for these films would be someone who wants to watch a suspenseful storyline. The constraints of this genre is that it isn’t allowed to get too relaxed at any points in fear of loosing the audiences attention on the story.
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