Discuss why this convention was used in this way in these two films. How does it link to the film as a whole? How does it develop an idea within the film? How does it reveal an attitude or point of view of the director? What was the audience response to the way this convention was used? What was the audience's expectation? Why? How did the way this convention was used conform or depart from tradition?
The convention of masked stalker was used in adding scariness and raising our fear up. The story of both of films Scream and Halloween are happening by the killer who wears a mask to hide face. Hiding their faces can make audience feel confuse and even more interesting. As a whole, the main point of these two films is the masked stalker. It develops spontaneous story of the films. To give an example, the masked stalker has something like revenge with the particular character, and kills the people around the particular character. I think these two films had successes to give a mysterious and psychological idea by masked stalkers. If the killer showed their faces, I think it would make our feel frivolous. I expected more tensions. When people saw the killer and they don’t know who are they, like misunderstanding that the killer is one of their friends who is making joke with them, but the actual face was that masked stalker is a killer and people was died by that masked stalker. It adds more tensions and scariness because I already knew that the masked stalker is a killer, not one of their friends. The idea of masked stalker is quite different with the tradition and usual horror movies which makes these two films as special movies to me.
