BBFC guidelines on horror:
U- should be mild should take account of the presence of young audiences. The outcome should be reassuring.
PG- can be frightening but shouldn't be too intense.
12- sustained threat with occasional gory moments only. 15- sustained or detailed infliction of pain or injury is not acceptable.
18- no constraints at this level on theme, language, nudity or horror.
My group have decided we are most likely going to do a 15 mainly because we are around the same age so we have an idea of what we would normally see in a 15 horror film, but also because it doesn't give us too strict boundaries so we don't have to restrict our ideas.
Representing women:
In films during the ... women were represented as the 'damsel in distress' who were always the victim and never the culprit. They wore dresses, had beautiful hair and looked stereotypically feminine. This is because at the time women were seen to be the weaker sex and didn't do bad or horrific things. However, across the course of the 20th century many changes have taken place to how women are represented on screen. For example, the Dracula story offers an interesting take on that change, as the different screen versions remain true to the original novel in making women broadly passive figures. The film began to show good women vs bad women through Count Dracula's success lies in his seduction of women from good to evil. In today's films women are shown that they can be just as powerful, violent and evil as male characters which could be argued to be a positive and negative thing for representing women.
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