Genre Trailers - 'The Boy Next Door'

 

• Although this is a thriller with some horror conventions, this has been analysed because I want to use some thriller conventions within my horror
• Mysterious music to start the narrative
• Problems and vulnerability surrounding the protagonist as her husband has been unfaithful
• An outsider  (Antagonist Noah) moves in next door and enters the women’s life without her control
• Antagonist has a troubled background
• Shots of the antagonist standing over the female (used a lot in films like this to show power and control
• Dramatic music and additional disrupt occurs when the protagonist has a sexual encounter with Noah making her more vulnerable
• Antagonist starts becoming obsessive and stalking the female by turning up at her house and class. (A key convention of the psychological thriller genre)
• Antagonist becomes dominant and calculating (sending the email to school) to assert power and control
• Violence and danger as Noah becomes more obsessed. (gun in shot)
• The antagonist becomes obsessive and danger occurs and the protagonist (the mum) has to escape his clutches when she finds out he clearly will stop at nothing
• Antagonist has mental health issues