Horror film cliches

When we hear horror movie we automatically think blood, death, screaming, teenagers, demon's etc. there are several different categories for horror films; slasher, zombie, vampire, mainstream horror, Asian horror.

• Slasher horror is a film that involves a psychopathic killer who stalks and murders a particular victim. 
• Zombie horror is a film that involves an invasion of a town or city with zombies. Usually the zombies carry a certain infection
• Vampire horror is a film involves someone holding a secret that they are a vampire but do not want anyone to know and then all of a sudden their finding somebody that they want to bite. 
• Mainstream horror is the main cliche for a horror film. There is some sort of ghost, possessed person haunting your house or wanting to take your soul, you do everything in your power to get away from it but you simply cant, it follows you. 
• Asian horror is just where the film is filmed in an Asian country.

These genres all rely on cliches because without them they would not be horror movies. There are many cliches leading to horror movies such as small children. Small children are all either evil or have a invisible friend who are evil. For example in The Conjuring, the youngest child finds a jack in a box down by a tree, whenever she wound it up she could see a little boy standing behind her asking her to play. She found the box underneath the tree where this little boy's mother had hung herself. So you can already tell this is a major cliche when it comes to a horror film. Another cliche would be teenagers, in every horror movie there is at least one teenager. They are usually found alone in a house which leads you to question where are their parents? As soon as you see teenagers in a house on their own you know something bad is about to happen. Most horror movies also include the scene where the woman is washing her face in the in the sink and then all of sudden where she looks up there's a possessed person standing behind her waiting to attack the woman. Nuns are always to be avoided in horror films, i have never understood why they always include nuns in horror movies and why they are the main things to stay away from but that the film industry for you, always wanting you too guess what happens next and why this has happened etc. Lastly one of the main cliches is dark rooms, in horror films you are always see people going into dark rooms y themselves. You would never go into a dark room by yourself if you knew that something was haunting you, you would turn the light on an avoid going in there for as long as you could.
The more Gorey films usually contain people being capture and being tortured. When you see this you now there is no escaping it and you know how it will end.....not nice!
Horror films are mainly targeted at teens as they liked to be scared and have the feeling of 'being on the edge of your seat'. Even though some find the films so scary they will still go and pay to watch them, it must the thrill of them.
Horror films work best in rural areas, this because they have no one to scream for help for or no where to run away, there stuck there. this always makes horror movies more scary as your sitting there wanting them to get away but you just know in the end there going to end up dead.