Horror Cliches

Horror films are popular among a wide range of audiences, adults and teenagers of both sexes watch them. Horror films heavily rely on cliches as most successful films have used them or invented ones and the audience expects to see them. 

The biggest cliche used in horror films is the location. All films have the isolated location such as houses in the middle of nowhere 'The Strangers', houses where somebody has previously died and an unsuspecting family move in 'The Amityville Horror' or on Farms 'Isolation.' These locations indicate the genre of the film immediately and are popular among the audience as it causes the film to be scarier as the victims do not not stand a chance so the tension builds throughout the film as the audience becomes more expectant of deaths about to take place.