Todorov's narrative theory in relation to our horror film

Equilibrium:

-       Young fragile girl in house

-       Cooking food

-       Normal evening

-       Cold, misty, enigmatic atmosphere

-       Raining

-       Set in a normal neighborhood

Disruption of equilibrium by some action:

-       Slasher/ stalker is standing outside the house

-       Slasher/Stalker rings doorbell

-       Slasher/stalker and young girl have a confrontation

-       Numerous stalker related attacks and killings within the neighborhood involving young teenagers (very stereotypical within the hybrid movie type)

Recognition of disruption:

-       A series of stalker type killings within the neighborhood take place within the trailer

-       Speed and cut shots heighten the tension within the trailer 

-       Diagetic sounds such as screaming are evident and become louder

-       Police identify the antagonist as their number one suspect and combine together a mass search party in order to cap off the killings which are taking place

-       Frantic killings and stalker attacks begin taking place within the neighbourhood  

Attempt to repair disruption:

-       Evidence provided from within the trailer of shots of struggling between the antagonist and protagonist are shown to the audience in order to reinstate the normality within the neighborhood

-       Police begin to nail down evidence against an individual within the neighborhood who they feel is the stalker of the victims

-       Arrests and warrants are issued by the Police in order to track down the individual responsible

-       Friends and family members of the victims from the attacks begin to take extra precaution in order to prevent similar events taking place to themselves and others

Reinstatement of equilibrium:

-       Neighborhood retains its norm of togetherness and everyone now feels a lot safer

-       Police have now apprehended the stalker who killed the teenagers within the neighborhood

-       Less stalker related attacks occur within the film once the attacker was caught

Twist:

-       Where everyone situated within the neighborhood believes that normality is taking place, a young girl gets killed again and becomes the victim of another stalker attack

-       This will then lead a sequel being created of the film