In horror movies, you nearly always get the stereotypical dumb blonde character, the gutsy character, the popular girls, the popular boys, the sporty lot, the arty lot, and a bunch of other, less important lot, but overall there will always be a character like these, in a film, at some point.
The typical blonde character will usually be one of the main ones, as in Scream, the blonde character is clearly Tatum, Sydneys best friend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYmIIbYoH0&feature=plcp

This Youtube video is one example of Tatum being the stereotypical blonde girl. Although she started out to pretending to be over the top stereotypical, making fun of the stereotype and pretending to be more stereotypical than she actually is, she does end up being the dead blonde girl who had an easy way out but ignored it. Saying that, she put up a good fight, managed to fend off the killer for a short time, but every blonde girl in a horror movie does, so it was only time until she got killed off.

http://horrornews.net/41413/top-10-most-stereotyped-characters-in-horror-films/

This is a website that gives a list of all the stereotypical characters in horror movies, it is pretty much accurate, and it supports my case that there is always certain specific characters that will have more spectacular deaths than others, for example, the blonde will have an incredibly brutal death as opposed to the geek who's death will be fairly simple. This also supports my claim that there will always be specific characters you'll root for more than the others, for example, people usually root for the girl who's a bit of an outcast but is quirky and quite funny, or they'll root for the cute guy with the crush on the outcast girl. Either way, you'll root for someone, and usually it's one of the stereotypical ones.




This has all been changed, I am not doing work on stereotypes, instead I am looking into whether Scream and The Cabin in the Woods can be classed as post-modern horror films.