Trailer Research - Stock Characters

For this blog post, I was asked to look up stock character within a horror film. The Wanderer, Popular Girl, The Pervert, Jock, Pandora and the Final Girl. The next section to this task was to give two examples reinforcing and one example challenging the "typical" stock character. For some of the stock characters, I wasn't able to find an example that challenges the character, therefore I did another example that reinforces. From this task, Ive learnt that it's healthy to repeat the characters but it becomes out of the ordinary when you challenge the character's stereotypical characteristics because audiences know "the rules" of horror and are expecting them when watching the film. When films change or mix up the rules, it because a surprising twist that the audience will enjoy.