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 Monday 28th February 2022

Films which include a psycho wife

Home Sweet Hell featuring Katherine Heigl is about a wife that finds out that her husband is cheating on her. The horror comedy is about a husband who doesn't like his sex life at home and decides to cheat on his wife with a lady at his store. In order to to keep her lover, the new girlfriend tells the husband that she is pregnant so that he will stay with her and not tell his wife. The wife finds out about this and begs her husband to hill her. The wife poisons that girlfriend and takes her home. She kills her with a hammer and cuts her body into pieces. The couple is now threatened by a gang that new the girlfriend which lets them to dig up the buried body. The wife ends up killing 2 of the gang members in order to not get caught and frames the other gang members for the killings. The husband is scared of the wife and plans to kill her. Once she has been killed he moves away with their children. At the end he was killed by the framed gang members.

This film features themes that is in our opening title sequence as they both contain a psycho wife who kills the women that their husband is cheating with. It is pretty conventional with films containing these themes to have the wife with blonde hair. In films blonde hair is conventionally portrayed as either not as bright/ intelligent or psycho and the man wife. The conventions of a thriller film that are the same as this film is the husband cheating on his wife and the wife killing the lover, they both use weapons in order to cause harm to their victims. Home Sweet Hell also uses red font for the title which we incorporated in our sequence as our colour scheme. Red font is used conventionally used in thriller films to portray the genre.