Mise-en-scene deconstruction- Weapons

Mise-en-scene deconstruction

Weapons

I chose to analyse the weaponry used in 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. I wanted to look into this film as a wide range of weapons and traps are used. Texas Chainsaw is a very stereotypical and conventional slasher horror that includes an extensive use of gore and includes about every killing object in the book.
 

A chainsaw is one of the main objects used for murder in slasher horror films. This common theme of a chainsaw is used in many films such as; Saw 1-7 and Evil Dead.
 

It is seen as the most violent tool for murder, this could be down to the roaring engine noise and the sheer power it gives the person that's holding it. It's purpose is to tear or rip through something, so murderers use it to make a mess and to tear through someone's flesh.

 

In Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the villain who's called Leather face, uses weapons like meat cleavers, long sharp knives and sledge hammers. He uses each weapon for different things. In one scene, the meat cleaver is used to remove his own fingers. He uses the sledge hammer to smash up people skulls and either damage their brain or kill them. However, he usually uses more than one weapon in each murder. The use of knives is for butchering all of the bodies either after death or to kill. 

Evaluation-
The weapons used and evaluated above are common in most slasher horror films and have become a common convention. In our film opening, we don't intend on using weapons like this, for one reason that our subgenre is more psychological horror, which is not as gory as a slasher and would never include weapons like this. And for another reason, impracticalities. We would not be able to use these weapons due to safety reasons and I feel that making a weapons like any of these ones would require expertise help which we would not be able to get and without help they would look far too unrealistic.