Account for the popularity of one genre of your choice. Illustrate you answer with examples.

Introduction:
Slasher Film Genre, popular because:
- causes the audience to feel extreme fear
-stereotypes challenged
-reflects the changing zeitgeist
-surprises, shocks, through unexpected twists/exposures
-Fufils audience expectations
-The dangers continoisly evolve, and change- intrigues and excites audince
Paragraph One:
Texas Chainsaw Massacre- we are forced to empathise with the teenage characters, as we identify with them through the same likings, and attitude. Therefore we also experience the same fears, and anxietys as the teenagers, and feel as if we are being chased or have been captured by the killer. Subjects the audience to extreme fear, causes us to imagine the fear the actual victims were subjected to.
Paragraph Two:
Scream's final girl after having sex, does not die, subverts stereotypes and demonstrates the acceptance of the whore. Contradicts typical representation demonstrated within 'Nightmare on Elmstreet' where the primiscuos female is the first to die, and the final girl survives through her innocence and wit.
Paragraph Three:
Halloween, reflects danger with a more human face. Killers instead of being represented as psycho's and murders, now take on a more human form, with a human face. This scares and intrigues the audience, and accounts for some the slasher genres growing popularity. As the killers are continouly changing, and shock the audience. Therefore it is more intriguing each time to find out who the murderer is.