'Horror films take our deepest fears - those ideas and thoughts that are just so scary that we can't contemplate them becoming real - and ask the question "What if?" The fear of the unknown has to be the strongest human emotion and a good horror film can make us feel like we are experiencing our worst nightmare.'
'Define your characters and give them good characterization, the audience will get attached to whatever characters they like best. This captivates the audience more.'
'Hitchcock used to make this distinction between surprise and suspense. If you see a couple sit down in a restaurant and chat for a while and then a bomb under the table blows up, that's a surprise. If you had the exact same scene but the camera went under the table to show you the bomb and then went on the same way, you'd see it a different way because you'd know what is going to happen. The best horror movies play on that type of anticipation. They don't rely on 'boo' moments.’
‘The most successful horror movies are those that slowly build up. The great ones deal with moral danger, not just physical. The unraveling of society. An example is "Night of the Living Dead", which came out in the '60s around the time of the Vietnam War. It was a very bleak film about people being under attack. It caught the spirit of paranoia and us against them’
'Hitchcock used to make this distinction between surprise and suspense. If you see a couple sit down in a restaurant and chat for a while and then a bomb under the table blows up, that's a surprise. If you had the exact same scene but the camera went under the table to show you the bomb and then went on the same way, you'd see it a different way because you'd know what is going to happen. The best horror movies play on that type of anticipation. They don't rely on 'boo' moments.’
‘The most successful horror movies are those that slowly build up. The great ones deal with moral danger, not just physical. The unraveling of society. An example is "Night of the Living Dead", which came out in the '60s around the time of the Vietnam War. It was a very bleak film about people being under attack. It caught the spirit of paranoia and us against them’
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