Horror Movie?

Question

Ok, so right now I'm writing a horror movie of my own. When I first started I thought that blood and gore were the best ways to scare people. Upon research I found that it doesn't and only grosses people out. Does anyone have any ideas on what they think makes horror movies scarier because everybody that I have shown the script to thinks that it's going to be another not scary-pointless movie.

Answer 1

I always thought that what made the original Halloween movie so good was that Michael Myers was so impersonal, deliberate, and unstoppable. You didn't know why he was doing what he was doing, except that if you crossed his path he would come after you. He doesn't hate you, he just wants to kill you. You couldn't reason with him. You couldn't stop him. You couldn't kill him. The ultimate bully who will kill you... just because. And there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Answer 2

Firstly forget about and blood and gore that is there just for the sake of it. It's pointless if you are trying to make a truly terrifying movie. Go for a combination of gore and thrills.

Movies like Hostel aren't scary they are disturbing, which can be very effective in small doses. Think of Saw, all the scenes in the bathroom aren't scary yet they are the gross ones. The scene's where jigsaw stalks his prey are the frightening ones.


Secondly have a look at The Descent and Wolf Creek both are classic examples of how the gore is evenly matched with the tension of impending doom. It also helps if you make the victims situation look hopeless. If as the audience you know the girl/boy in distress really doesn't stand a chance it is truly gut-wrenching watching it all unfold. Wolf Creek executed this perfectly.

In conclusion pick the horror movies that have scared you the most and draw inspiration from how they did it. Just don't go overboard with the old cliche of 'cat jumps out from a window' or villain in the mirror scares. The are expected and don't have the same effect any more as the did twenty-thirty years ago.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

What creeps me out is when people are hiding in shadows... (watch the very first Halloween and you'll get what I'm saying) when Laurie was on the phone checking on the kids across the street, Michael Myers was standing behind her the entire time but you gradually began to see him as he inched closer. She had no idea... its one of the most frighting things I've seen in a horror movie. It's not about what you can put into it to make it look scary, its the things that seem like nothing but turn out to be someone lurking around a corner or in your house. That's true horror.

Answer 4

OK first of all it has to be intelligent if you want any respect from the movie going community. anyone can put ketchup on a dummy but its scarier if the logical progression of the plot makes me believe that the dummy could be me and that could be my blood....that's what gets me because I'm smart and can think my way out of a bad situation, if the character does everything i would do in that situation and still gets the chop, that's what keeps me up at night. some genuinely creepy visuals are also necessary, but to me they can't hold a good movie together without plot.
good luck

Answer 5

creepy music. Creepier music when someone dead is coming. Things popping out of no where with not music (music can sometimes be a warning). Nails dragging on anything. Floors, walls, chalkboards. I just hate that sound. Not so much scary just enough to get my attention to something else and not realize something scary is coming up. Oh and leg grabbing. I love my legs and would be deathly afraid of someone grabbing them.

Answer 6

I agree with cowboy up above me....any psycho that has a no holds barred idea on killing is the best, also, someone that you never expect, until the moment that the victim realizes she is sitting alone in a house with a man who once was the only one she trusted and now understands that HE'S the killer........"Oh my God, Mr. Rogers has got an oozie!"....you get the idea....good luck dear!

Answer 7

You want to know what makes a good horror movie? The answer's simple.....






FEAR - UTTER, PURE, UNDILUTED FEAR....

Find a way to make people fear, to the deepest core of their being, and you've found a blockbuster movie...

Try watching Saw 1,2, & 3
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The Number 23
The Shining
Faces of Death
Texas Chainsaw Massacres
Stephen King's IT

Just to name a few...

Answer 8

all the observed video clips Halloween Nightmare on Elm St. Poltergeist Devils Rejects The Exorcist nighttime of the residing ineffective Freaks worried of The darkish The Exorcism of Emily Rose savour your flicks!!

Answer 9

I think its scary when you take the lives of normal people and make something freaky happen but make sure its something that could actually happen and then people will be worried and SCARED

Answer 10

Maybe something that scares or creeps people out in real life: clowns, spiders, or even an icecream man.