Cover Work

Form - Ending of the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Function - To create suspense as it makes the audience think whether she will escape from the killer or not.

M - long shots are used to show her being chased by 2 men, how she is out numbered. Close ups of her face full of blood, shows audience what she has been through, feel sympathy for her.
I - idea of the final girl
G - Slasher / Horror
R - challenges typical representation of weak women as a man is killed first therefore further representing the final girl as strong.
A - Teenagers over 18/ Adults
I - Vortex
N - Linear, no use of flash backs.

Other related texts - psycho

S - Womens image is changing in society - man is killed first
H - challenges history of women

Issues and Debates - Rise of women - Feminism, women no longer weak
- Audience desensitized to violence.

Similarities

- both movies make use of phallic weapons - knife and chainsaw
- both consist of serial killing - killings occur one after another
- full of violence
- engage the audience

Differences

- the idea of the final girl
- women are represented differently in each film
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre has more violence
- One film is in colour where as the other is in black and white
- mask is used in one film to hide identity
- wig is used in other
- Women is killed earlier in psycho, shows how they were represented in the past.