burton’s formula

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Burton’s formula:

Protagonist

Stock characters

Icon: objects, backgrounds, stars

Plots and stock situations

Background and decor

Theme:

revenge carjacking

car crash chainsaw

car accident laptop

suspense photograph

personal vendetta race against time

hand grenade pirate broadcasting

militant explosion

bag over head limousine

parking garage booby trap

ambush bus

mercenary cell phone

arms dealer body count

homeless man homelessness

deception money

class differences media coverage

tattoo shot in the throat

near death experience running out of gas

gas mask gas grenade

dune buggy fire

molotov cocktail knife

axe sabotage

latin american f word

ghetto rescue

held at gunpoint hostage

chase sniper rifle

gatling gun ak 47

gunfight revolver

gore blood splatter

blood tracking device

surveillance brutality

violence death

boyfriend girlfriend relationship death of boyfriend

tied to a chair self sacrifice

warrior tough guy

hospital ambulance

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emergency broadcast system dystopia

2020s survival

one day shot in the leg

shot in the arm news report

body in a dumpster hanged man

subway exploding car

shootout sniper

corpse sororicide

semi truck blood spatter

siren hit with a baseball bat

character's point of view camera shot night vision goggles

man punching a woman trap

neck breaking shot in the face

mass death mass murder

anti hero hiding in a closet

shot to death shot in the forehead

shot in the head shot in the back

shot in the shoulder shot in the chest

shot in the stomach auction

mansion hunting

burned alive person on fire

hit by a car stabbed to death

stabbed in the chest foot chase

on the run car set on fire

flamethrower kidnapping

apartment apartment building

motorcycle home invasion

bare chested male shotgun

resistance fighter resistance

psychopath film starts with text

no opening credits character repeating someone else's dialogue

teenage daughter waitress

bulletproof vest armored car

stealing a car gang

painted face masked man

assault rifle machine gun

pistol machete

slow motion scene lens flare

ex husband ex wife relationship mother daughter relationship

father daughter relationship los angeles california

year 2023 one night

man with no name second part

written by director survival horror

murder sequel

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Dweliver us from evil

possession priest

police officer demonic possession

confession baptism

pregnant woman apartment

rain reference to jim morrison

reference to the doors knife fight

knife hatchet

mental patient mental hospital

cell phone heavy rain

dead baby bar

flashlight cat

chaos in the dark abusive relationship

argument daughter

husband wife relationship shouting

stuffed animal lock

abduction kidnapping

handcuffs police station

blood covered in blood

bleeding to death dead woman

police car nypd

new york city iraq

dead cat demon

exorcism exorcist

crucifix bare chested male

murder biting

stabbing lion

3rotting corpse writing on a wall

writing on a body police sergeant

death by falling suicide

written by director death of child

based on book

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oculus

mirror home office

trauma auction

murder suicide

seeing mother killed shot multiple times

glowing eyes iphone

lantern flickering light

yellow pages spitting blood

biting a light bulb changing a light bulb

red delicious apple sleeper hold

strangle staring into a mirror

argument golf club

animal bite golden retriever

bottle of water house plant

band aid on finger mechanical timer

correlation versus causation face slap

year 1955 year 1904

reference to william tecumseh sherman archival photograph

year 1864 year 1755

video camera anchor

caged animal puppy

biting fingernail woman wearing a negligee

overhead camera shot caesarean scar

released from a mental hospital woman wearing a ponytail

nightmare psychiatric evaluation

antique mirror based on short film

removing a fingernail blood on hand

blood on wall new house

computer programmer lightbulb

gunshot gun

hiding apparition in mirror

scared by a mirror image looking at self in mirror

mirror does not reflect reality loss of mother

loss of father loss of sister

death of sister cracked mirror

chained to a wall chained to wall

fiancee fiance

promise flashback

filmed paranormal event cell phone

stabbed in the neck blood on mouth

blood dog

dead plant plant

paranormal research paranormal

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Common elements in genre: