To put it in simple terms, A teen horror is a horror based at teenagers (you never would have guessed) It usually contains elements such as a "Dim-witted" niave teen girl who is usually chased and falls over dramatically - In cliché. Teen horrors usually begin with Day-to-day life, with many foreshadowing lines just so you remember it's still a horror, Often things regarding a sleepover where girls might be talking about a horrible murder that happened in the woods and then they decide "Lets venture into the woods"- Bad mistake because we all know there's a killer out there. This genre of films rarely has a main story-line to it other than maybe an old tale about a murderer that no-one believes and then suddenly this psycho murder is loose from no-where and starts killing everyone...
Here is a trailer for "Scary movie" which takes all the teen horror clichés and moulds them into a classic comedy take on "Scream"
The first notable teen horror is probable Halloween (1978) Followed by Halloween II (1981), A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) and Friday The 13th (1980), Creating a whole new revolution of teen horrors and psycho killers
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) was another iconic film for the decade, and even today "Freddy Krueger" is regarded as one of the best horror characters out there, he even has his own eerie song... In my opinion the special effects and make-up used in this film to make the character are some of the best out of the teen horror range
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