Intertextuality

Intertextuality is when same genre films can take some of the ideas from one and incorporate it into their own film. For example Physco's Shower scene is the most powerful horror scene in its time which is still being used in horror films today. Also in the film A Nightmare On Elm's Street a scene which a girl answers a phone and an scary voice talks and freaks out the girl who smashes the phone up this has also been used in horror films and parody films today and also in tv dramas.

This is the Shower Scene from Physco

In the Film Fatal Attraction, they have really stuck to the same outline of the shower scene. The opening to the scene is a women trying to stab the other women. Here she does the same over arm stabbing motion just like in physco, and also the womens face when being stabbed is just like the women in pysco. They have the shell shocked face and the scream. These conventions are used in most or every horror film. Also water is a big convention in both of the scenes, in Physco you just see the water running at the end showing the dead body with the blood going down the drain, however in Fatal Attraction the water is used to drown the women stabbing everyone. It creates suspense during this as you are watching her struggling in the water but still has the knife in her hand. 

In the Student Film Succubus, they have also followed the same lines as Physco. A guy is having a shower when we see a girl come into the scene, from  the way she smells the top you are able to see she is obsessed. A difference between this film and Physco is that we see the person before they even attack. In the shower scene in Physco you don't see the attacker, we just see the over arm knife action and the face of the victim. Also at the end you see the boys foot with blood dripping from it just like the women in Pysco.










This is the phone scene from Nightmare on Elm's street

In Scream 3 Sarah is talking on the phone to who she thinks is her boss, to read her script for her scene, but a strange voice changes the lines and scares Sarah. The voice will tell the listener that they are going to kill either them or someone they know. In Nightmare on Elm's Street the girl smashes the phone but in Scream she cuts off the phone. They both react scared however the girl screams but Sarah just gasps and they both become very out of breathe. This is used a lot in horror films, especially with girls answering the phone. 


In One Missed Call a women answers the phone she hears a strange voice but then hears her friend who is standing next to screaming to death through the phone. They react just like Nancy in Nightmare On Elm's Street really out of breathe but they don't scream. This creates suspense as there was silence and then the started ringing this created a real eery feel to the scene. Also facial expressions of the girls as they are listening look so shocked and have so much fear in their eyes just like Nancy when she hears the voice talking about her boyfriend.