Some genres have specific stylistic characteristics or employ techniques that are a key way of generating suspense or fear. Point-of-view is one of the principal techniques of the horror genre (for example, the sequence of the serial killer stalking Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs in Lesson 1). This extract from Halloween is one of the most famous examples of the use of point-of-view in film with the movie beginning with the point-of-view of an anonymous murderer as he stalks and kills a victim and then the camera draws back at the end of the scene to deliver.
