Genre texts have sometimes been criticised for being predictable and unimaginative. Discuss

Introduction: Going through certain famous and well known slasher movies and explain what separates them apart from others and how they differ.

Para 1: Talk about the changes in target audiences and audiences generic expectations in the different time periods of slasher films.

Para 2: Audience expectations would change throughout time so the genre would need to as well which it does in the 90s (more advanced, in 1980's aswell with nightmare on elm street)

Para 3: Compare the codes conventions and iconography of Halloween/ nightmare on elm street (70s/80s slasher ) to post modern scream and scary movie.

Para 4: Whether changes in the genre and films reflect the zeitgeist of the 80s and 90s especially in reference to it being to predictable i.e feminism bringing out more fighting qualities in the final girl

Para 5: discuss the differences between older slasher movies and current movies and decide whether or not the differences are enough to make movies now less predictable.

Conclusion: I think that for a while they were guilty of becoming dull and predictable especially for a period in the late 70s however, changed in the 80s because of other elements coming along like the supernatural and zombie elements coming into effect.