Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Other Films with a Revenge Storyline

The idea of revenge is common in a lot of horror films as it creates a reason for the deaths/ what happens in the film. It gives the killer a motive and makes them seem more ruthless and determined. Some examples are:
Tamara (2005)
Tamara, an unattractive girl, who is picked on by her peers returns after her death as a sexy seductress for revenge.
Tamara is a girl who didn't quite fit in. Tamara is constantly picked on and when a couple of peers play a joke on Tamara, it leads to her death. They bury her and try to make it seem that Tamara ran away. But all is not forgotten. Tamara returns as a sexy seductress and through witchcraft plans her revenge.
This is contrasting to our trailer as our killer does not have any supernatural powers, therefore it belongs more in the horror/thriller genre unlike Tamara which is more horror.
Tormented (2009)
A bullied teenager comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates. The head girl Justine gives a speech on the funeral of the teenage schoolmate Darren Mullet that has just committed suicide but she does not recall who he was.
Then she is invited by Alexis to date him in the celebration party in the house of his friend Bradley. Sooner Justine discovers that Darren had a crush on her and was bullied by Bradley and his friends including Alexis. When each one of Bradley's friends is found dead, they discover that Darren has returned from beyond to revenge the humiliations to which he was submitted.
Valentine (2001)
Valentine's Day 1988: At the school dance, geeky Jeremy Melton bravely faces one rejection after the other when asking four popular girls to dance with him. A fifth girl, plump and insecure, agrees, but they end up making out under the bleachers. When a group of school bullies catches them, the girl claims that Jeremy attacked her. This causes them to strip off his clothes and beat him up in front of the entire school. Flash forward to 2001.
We meet the five girls who were in that school gym: Kate, Paige, Shelly, Lily and the formerly plump Dorothy. They are all in their 20's now and trying to sort out their love lives, which is appropriate, since Valentine's Day is coming up. After a disastrous date with a loser, one of the girls, a pre-med student, is murdered by a Cherub-mask wearing killer who sent her a death threat in the form of a Valentine card prior to the attack.

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