Characters within this genre can usually be identified very easily. A stereotypical horror character will have blood stained clothes, creepy voice etc...
The audience will also expect to see an antagonist and a protagonist. The protagonist being the hero/victim/heroine. In some cases there is also a 'final girl', just like in Halloween 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHslouUNi00. This is the trailer for Halloween 2.
In this trailer you can see a PROtagonist and also an ANtagonist. They are both easily identifiable.
The setting of the film can sometimes be contrapuntal to the actual film. E.g. in '28 days later' the film starts in a hospital. Little do we know that the hospital is desolate. I feel that this is contrapuntal to the film as usually a hospital is a 'good' place but in this case it shows horror and scary aspects.
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