What are the Elements of a PERFECT Horror Movie

What are the Elements of a PERFECT Horror Movie

What are the Elements of a PERFECT Horror Movie

roulette67's picture
Wed, 11/01/2006 - 9:34am — roulette67
General Horror Discussion

It takes A LOT to scare me. Mostly I just laugh. Phantasm was the last movie that freaked me out, when I was a kid. That and Jacobs Ladder. Mental Mind F$.

It's not enough to just gross your audience out with entrails and blood. There are so many psychological thrillers out now, but sometimes they fall short.

Are the days of the slasher film gone??

I was just wondering what elements of this genre are needed to make the SCARIEST horror flick? One that would scare me. And I'm a hard scare.

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NJREDHEAD on Thursday, November 2, 2006 - 11:28pm

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The biggest factor for me is sympathy for the "victims". If I don't give a rat's ass whether the people I'm supposed to want to live actually live or die, the movie's lost it's effectiveness.

For example "I know what you did last summer" was a horrible horror movie because after about ten minutes I immediately wanted every cast member dead.

Same with "Blair Witch Project". After about twenty minutes of that I was saying "Please Blair Witch ... kill these little pricks."

I couldn't agree MORE!!!

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NJREDHEAD on Thursday, November 2, 2006 - 11:32pm

A movie that draws you in....takes you for a ride.........and then just freaks the hell out of you. Not predictable

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