Explain why Morals were used

Morals were used in both of the films Scream and Halloween, so that the viewers of these two movies would learn from the mistakes of some of the characters in the films, i.e breaking the three main rules. Drinking, taking drugs and having sex were all used in these two movies to show that doing these three things is not a good idea, and that it will only result in bad consequences. In the case of horror movies it results in your death by the killer. It links to the film as a whole because the actions of the characters in these films make the story line and it teaches the viewers that drinking, drugs and sex is bad and doing these things will only result in bad consequences; in the movies' case it results in death. It develops the idea by having some of the characters shown breaking these three main rules and their deaths because of it. It shows that you should stay out of trouble and that you should keep yourself innocent. The characters that are not innocent, are the ones who are the victims of the killers. It shows that the directors' points of view is that drinking, taking drugs and sex are all bad things and teenagers in our society today shouldn't be doing these things. The directors' aims are to have the viewers of these two films realize this, after watching these two films. The director of Halloween, Carpenter dismisses the notion that Halloween is a 'mortality play', regarding it as merely a movie. But critics view this is a different way and see the movie Halloween as a mortality play. Morals have been used in horror movies throughout the years, morals are a conformation of the tradition of horror movies. For years and years horror movies have shown that the people who have sex, take drugs or drink, are the ones that are the ones who will not survive in a horror movie. Horror movies have been putting this message forward for years and in-twining it in the story lines, to not only make an enjoyable movie but to give the movies a moral.