Dawn of the Dead (2004) Image Analysis - Monica's Death

In this scene, we see our Female Victim  dying after coming near to escaping in the fortified van. It is quite iconic that Monica dies as she is the person who has sex most recently with Steven, which fits into the standard conventions of the Female Victim. You could also notice that the Chainsaw was used earlier as a phallic weapon when Michael shows Ana what he’s created. In this scene it gives Glen power he didn't want. If we compare this to the original Dawn of the Dead (1978) we can see that there would have been a high chance of this being cut out with the Hays Code, showing the development of films over time. When looking at the institution context (industries point of view) we can see that the industry has tried to keep all of the standard conventions of Dawn of the Dead, whilst the historical context seems to have a similar look to the original Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Night of the Living Dead (1968).  With this scene, it is edited very quickly to not show as much gore to the audience. This shows us that it is an action horror displayed through the amount of time used on this quick montage. We can compare this horror with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) which has its horror dragged out for a longer period of time, compared to Dawn of the Dead's quick montage death scene.