Monday 20 April 2009

Similarities between the old and new TCM...

Similarities:
Each film has the role of a final girl in them.
Both follow the same typical conventions to that of the slasher genre.
Both films are set in similar settings which are mainly abandoned.
Killer in both versions kills his victims in the same way; with the chainsaw.
Audience sadistic pleasure.
Both have the same pyshco killer who has come from a family of cannibals.

Differences:
In the 1974 verison the hitchhicker is a male, where as in the 2003 version it is a female.
The newer version is not censored.
Audience expectations have changed due to the different era's which these films have been made in.


No comments: