Research : Dead Mary, Dead Wood and Wrong Turn

On Friday, we watched the opening 2 minutes of 3 teen horror movies called Dead Mary, Dead Wood and Wrong Turn and then analyzed all the different horror conventions which are likely to happen in a horror films in the openings.  

The conventions we looked at were Secluded location, characters forget an obvious threat, power is cut, problem with phone, character investigates a strange noise, character runs upstairs (not outside), character hides by a window/behind a door, character inexplicably falls over, vehicle won't start, fake scare, warning goes unheeded, someone dies in 5 minutes, x years before/later, stormy weather and character takes a short cut. We ticked the conventions which shown up in the movie and analysed the final results to see which conventions are the most commen.
The most commen conventions which were shown in all 3 of those films were secluded location, fake scare and death before the first 5 minutes. I think that directors use these conventions the most in the first 2 minutes of the film as it builds up the tension in the viewer.The use of the fake scare might be foreshadowing what happens in the latter stages of the film. They use the secluded location to make the film seem more creepier, if the movie was set in a school then it wouldn't be scary and they would also use the death before 5 minutes to make the viewer aware of the dangers in the movie and what might happen in the latter of the film.