Thriller/Horror Film Research

Prom Night
I recently watched Prom Night (2008) which is based on Richard Fenton, an obsessed ex-teacher of Donna Keppel who killed Donna's father and brother and when Donna hid after finding the dead bodies, killed her mother infront of her. 3 years later, he escapes from prison to return to finish the job. He checks into a hotel where Donnas prom is being held and silently kills a maid, he then kills 2 of Donna's friends, next he kills a hotel employee when he is looking for the missing maid. He then kills Donna's best friend and manages to escape in the uniform when the building is being evacuated by Chief Detective Winn. By now Donna has returned home with her boyfriend. Donna returns from the bathroom at home to see that her boyfriends throat has been slit. She hides in her wardrobe when she hears footsteps, however Fenton is already hiding in the wardrobe. Donna bites Fenton and tries to run however she falls, Fenton is then stood above Donna ready to kill, but in his psychotic, obsessive way looks at her for a while and admires her. In the nick of time Winn comes in and shoots Fenton to death before he kills Donna. Donna is still traumatised but is relieved it is "all over".

This film has shown how stalkers and killers are stereotypically represented in films, giving us ideas for our own film's plot. I think we are going to use the same sort of body movements that Fenton does, such as putting his hand out slowly in a possesive way with our stalker to his victim.