Survey Analysis

These are the results that I have overall:

Which shows a general trend of agreement overall, most of the answers on this graph lean towards agree.

These are the pie charts for the individual question results:

Barthes Enigma Code

The concept behind Barthes Enigma code is that every piece of text, be it a a book, a film or a video game, has an element of mystery to it, where there is a problem that needs to be solved. The most obvious example in the horror genre is 'The Woman in Black'; not only do you need to find out how our main character survived but also how the main antagonist came to haunt the mansion and why.

Assigned Audience Theory

Research rationale results so far

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Undetermined	Agree	Strongly agree
The rating of a movie falls on the number of graphic scenes and blood shown through the film.	8		4	10
Male Gaze (women appearing solely as sex objects) in movies should be toned down to a minimum.	1	1	1	8	9
A horror movie consists mainly of jump scares and anticipation.		4	1	13	1
A good horror movie preys on primal fears, activating survival instincts.		1	8	9	2
The trailer completely ruins the movie for me.	5	10	3	2
A horror movie should focus more on the scares and less on the story.	5	14	1
Horror could overlap into other genres like comedy.			3	14	3
Horror should have a lasting effect on the audience.			1	3	15
Horror should always be fictional so you know it's not real.	6	3	3		7
Music and sound in horror is just as effective as lighting.				11	8
Praised horror from the early days are a letdown to the modern audience.		8	7	4	1

 The trend seems to that most people are agreeing with the statements in my survey; the reason for this could be one of two things: either my statements are leading or my statements are relatable.

Psycho and TCM (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Psycho and TCM have something in common; that is that they both subvert the conventions of the horror genre.

Psycho was released in 1960, by this time color television was widespread and used pretty much all over television. Despite the popularity of color tv Hitchcock decided his latest flick would be in good old black and white. This led to many difficulties of color tv being averted, for example it's said that Hitchcock used chocolate syrup for the blood in the shower scene, not only was it cheap and effective in terms of props but it was cheaper to produce because black and white films were cheaper than color.

The way that TCM goes against the convention grain is that when it was released, in 1998, most horror movies were slasher films and though they were a thrill none were based on real events. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was filmed as a mix of both a slasher and documentary film. It was advertised as a horror movie despite being based on real events. The movie was so scarring that it was banned until 1999 when it was resurfaced and given an 18 rating. Personally I think it should still be banned, I could hardly sit through two minutes of it.