This is not a very common location however it has been used. The main point is that the conventions stay the same. Characters are on a boat trip they find a nice and small little island completely deserted, where they can have privacy and fun. But they soon find out that it was all good to be true and they are not alone on the island.
This would be a typical house used in a slasher movie. Where teenage students would be on a road trip, and would find this big spooky looking house and decide to squat for a few days, only to find terrible things happen. It’s a derelict house, with woodlands around it.
This would be a typical house used in a slasher movie. Where teenage students would be on a road trip, and would find this big spooky looking house and decide to squat for a few days, only to find terrible things happen.
This is a setting from the movie psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a fairly large house in the middle of nowhere, somewhere where if you screamed for help no one would hear. This movie set conventions for use of these sorts of houses in almost all slasher movies.
Analysis
One question that comes to mind is why the setting of slasher films usually consist of a house. The use of a ‘house’ has almost become a convention in all slasher films since Halloween. The reason behind this is easier to understand if you consider the effects of using a house. In modern day society we all accommodate ourselves in a house, flat or apartment, basically ‘a roof over our head’. We are all generally in our comfort zone when we are home, at home we feel more relaxed and free. The semiotic connotations of a home are safety, shelter and comfort. Now to have multiple murders happen in a house is bound to cause a panic. It goes against the ideology of the general public. This means that it clashes with the ideology of the majority causing them to panic and feel unsettled. Having a monster kill people in the house will have a lot more impact than having the monster kill a person on the streets, as a murder on the streets is accepted by society because it makes sense within their ideology.
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