Halloween- 1978

1978s Halloween was one of the first slasher films, along with it came the arrival of a key character in many horror films to follow the ‘Final Girl.’. traditionally female characters are seen as sexualization of motive and a victim who is a desired sexually active woman. The ‘Final Girl,’ on the other hand, is masculinized and desexualized, and this allows her to survive, often only with the help of a stronger man. Halloween follows this tradition, with each female victim being murdered either right after she has had sex or right before she is about to. Their nude bodies are often on display throughout the murder sequences, appealing to the male desire for female pain and objectification. It is implied Laurie only survives because she is the only sexually inactive member of her friend group. However, she is not able to defeat Michael herself, but instead needs the male psychologist to come shoot him so that she can escape. I’ve chosen to use the Kitchen scene from the film as two people are attacked in this room. Laurie who when attacked breaks the window and breaks free. As well as before this her friend Annie spills something on her clothes and is left in only a large button up men’s shirt on the phone talking to the boy who is about to come over so they can have sex, and Michael appears behind her in the doorway.

Even the image of the ‘final girl’ Laurie as she exists the kitchen and runs away the centre of the scene the main focal point is her bum, still sexualized despite her being seen as a more masculine character

Creating the set   

Learning from the miniature I made before this one is predominantly all cardboard. To create the windows in the door I used tracing paper and then painted on with clear cell nail polish to get a glass effect. The Brick I did the same as the tile from the pervious set. I want my sets to look like the sets they are based off of but they are not exact I want it to have a familiar sense to them but you are unsure of where you know them from.