Supernatural Horror Film - Characters (INDIVIDUAL)

Characters play a large part in supernatural horror to make the film scary to watch.

Supernatural horror is the act of paranormal activity, physic occurrences or 'magic'. This is beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature so is found disturbing and horrifying to people.

So, in a supernatural horror film, the characters we expect to see are ghosts, demons or invisible beings that have a paranormal aura about them. We also expect to have a real-life human being in the film, which is our flash back to reality; these are usually the characters in the film which are victimized by the supernatural.

There is always a protagonist in a supernatural film who has a role of either being victimized by the supernatural occurrence or in the film to save the victim/s. There is also always an antagonist, which is used as the plot device, and has a nasty and malicious aim to hurt or put others in danger. The antagonist in a supernatural horror is usually the ghost or devil in the film. 

In our group idea for the storyline, we decided to include three human characters and one paranormal presence as this opens up opportunities to show the people being victimized by this figure; making the film intimidating and scary for viewers to watch.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2007) is a good example of a supernatural film which involves both supernatural and human beings. This is the story of a couple who recently move into a house and are often visited by a paranormal figure. The film shows them becoming increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. The main characters involved in this film are:

	Katie Featherstone		Katie
	Micah Sloat		Micah
	Mark Fredrichs		Psychic
	Amber Armstrong		Amber
	Ashley Palmer		Diane

There are five human beings in the film which create the creepy, realistic idea to the film. However, the main character of all is the paranormal 'demon' which is mostly active at night and poses threat to the two main characters Katie and Micah.

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) is another example of a supernatural horror.
The film tells the fictional story of three student filmmakers who hike in the Black Hills in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The three disappear, but their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) is discovered a year later. The creepy "recovered footage" left is the film the viewer is watching. The idea of the three student film-makers being human is again, another snapback to reality 
and makes the whole 
film even more terrifying as it makes the viewer question the possibility of similar occurrences happen to them.