Props and Costume Research

Research into Props and Costumes 

Props and Costumes from other horror films

The red and green jumper, brown hat and gloves of knives are all the notable costume and prop associated with Freddy Kruger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise. The glove of knives is notbale because it is Freddy's weapon and the hat makes him look threatening and mysterious, also the red in his jumper signifies death, blood and danger.

These are the mask and machete of the killer Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th film franchise, which are used to strike fear into the audience of the films because of how menacing the mask looks and the machete is used to match the killers height, as he is often portrayed by a tall, well-built actor.

This image shows the costume and prop of Michael Myers, the killer from the Halloween frachise, which consists of a large kitchen knife, a pair of overalls and a white mask, all of which are notable to the audience.

These costumes are similar to what we intend to use in our film, as we are using a floral print dress to make the girl look innocent but splatter it with brown and red paint to show that when she died, she lost her innocence and I think this could become notable to the audience, like Michael Myers costume.

 

Lemarchand's box, the fictional lock puzzle/puzzle box, which features mainly in the Hellraiser franchise and is the cause of the characters situations as once they solve the puzzle, it summons the Cenobites, an order of formerly human monsters and acts as a key to their Hell-like realm.

This is quite similar to a prop we will use in our film, as we are using a gift box, which once it is sent to a person, they have a curse passed onto them which means they will be killed by the girls ghost in five days.