Thursday 2 April 2009

TCM - similarities and differences

Similarities between the two texts are:

· In both texts there are a group of young adults on a road trip.
· Same method of killing which is an Icon of the TCM series.
· Setting of the house in an isolated place.
· Friends go missing and the others try to find them unwary of the terror around.
· A hitchhiker is given a lift and in both versions of the film, the characters realise that the hitchhiker is part of the plan.
· Audience Sadistic pleasure.
· Same binary opposition Madness Vs Sanity.
. Final Girl.

Differences between the two texts are:

· The hitchhiker in the 1974 version is a male character and in the 2003 version it a female showing the developing roles of women in society.

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