Stock Characters for Psychological

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The archetypes that are normally found under this sub-genre.

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STOCK CHARACTERS

PSYCHOLOGICALSTOCK CHARACTERSDEMONOLOGIST/ GHOST HUNTER

In Psychological horrors, the victims always reach out to a ghost hunter/demonologist who helps perform an exorcism or simply tries to find the mystery of the spirit and cast it out. In the film Poltergeist they got hold of a celebrity ghost hunter who helped them find out they had a poltergeist possession. The resolutions in psychological films tend to involve this stock character casting out the demonic spirit.Pandoras are normally played by a pretty/sexy female. They are seemed to have very innocent and pure characteristics. However this is just a faade as they are normally evil and sometimes the killer in the film. In addition to this, they are also the reason for the disequilibrium. In the film, The Orphan Esther isnt actually a young girl she is a promiscuous thirty year old who is seeking attention from the father in the family. Pandora

The popular girl is normally the person who all the girls aspire to be and all the boys want to be with. She is also the girlfriend of the jock character. As well as this, she tends to be the first person who gets killed off as she is the less innocent out of her group. Cassidy Spiller in The Gallows was the girlfriend of the jock and was the second person to be killed; showing that most films use this convention.Popular Promiscuous Girl

He is the alpha male character that everyone wants to be friends with. He is normally an attractive guy who has a very sexual relationship with the popular girl. His popularity tends to come from his sports achievement. In The Gallows Ryan is the jock and is the first to die juxtaposing his masculinity. JOCK