The Beginning of The Canadian Genre
Many Canadian films have been categorized into the following categories:
Contemporary World Cinema
Special Presentation
Vanguard
Masters
Canadians have a readiness to experiment more with genre according to film critics as seen the film The Trotsky which has been coined as “a kind of smart teen comedy”. What tends to take place in Canadian film is that initially, on the surface, when first introduced to the plot, it appears as if the film will fit into one specific genre, but the plot takes a twist, so that the genre develops into an entirely different one.Didn’t catch that? This explains it.
One film director Bob Clark has produced probably some great films as well as many good ones. His Black Christmas is considered to have popularized the slasher horror films. Clark understood what spoke to the viewer at a primal level and how audiences react to suspense.
The five components to a slasher film are the killer who has suffered an awful trauma, the weapon, usually something that cuts, the setting where teens hang out like summer camps, the past event which explains why there is a killer on the loose, and the final girl who survives the killer’s anger and attacks.