What scares you the most 2

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Friends few daysback i had posted a thread with this topic. I also decided to post the same message on more forums. I recieved the following results which i just want to share with you. Where the friends from other forums and from www.indietalk.com voted for different important elements of horror films which are posted as


Unseen fear 8
Atmosphere 7
Music 8
Gore (Clearly Showing on screen) 12
Suspense (What will happen next) 8
Other 59


friends i am just sharing information which i got. I am not saying that this statical data will help in making a successfull horror film. It is just a small survey that what people like to see in a horror movie. I will like to say one more thing that i simply copy pasted the detail regarding the charachter issue in horror film of Spatula because i think i was not able to express those details in the best way which Spatula had told me on this forum.

If Spatula finds it a bad thing then i apologise for it. My only aim was to provide more and more knowledge which i get from my GURUS.

I am posting the links of that blog too where i have mentioned lot of details regarding my searching. If Moderators or management of the site think i am publicising my blog then ofcourse they can delete the links.

Regards

The links are

http://indie-filmmaking.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-scares-you-most-in-horror-movies-1.html

http://indie-filmmaking.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-scares-you-most-in-horror-movies-2.html

http://indie-filmmaking.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-scares-you-most-in-horror-movies-3.html
 
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haha, it's cool ad2478... though I'm no guru, and certainly not an "old hand" as they say. (hey, that's a synechdoche... thank Charlie Kaufman for putting that word into regular vocabulary)

Anyway, interesting survey you did there. Keep up the good work!!!
 
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Thanks Spatula well i believe any one who guides me is my GURU.....
By the way thanks for appreciating my work. I got around 150 replies alltogether from which 40 were really crap making fun and not interested. And around 59 replies were given keeping any specific movie in mind so i didnt counted them because those elements were not common elements of Movies. Those replies were like we feel interesting or scary when there are spiders in the movie, or moving chairs etc....

Regards
 
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ad2478 said:
Thanks for finding it interesting... Well i think people these days dont want to pur pressure on their minds by thinking of an unseen element.
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I would rather say to use the "unseen/unknown" as a tool in your filmmaker scare-box... Most creature-feature horrors capitalize on the "big reveal"... they go to great lengths to only show you portions of what the monster is until the very end... and usually, people have imagined it scarier than whatever CGI and make-up can produce.. so the trick would be to hold out as long as possible before the reveal, and then, if you've really got a good punchline, drop an unexpected twist on the "big reveal"..

Take the movie "Jeepers Creepers" for example. The first half of the movie is actually kind of scary because we don't KNOW what the creature is, and we only GLIMPSE what it looks like... when they actually reveal it though, the movie suddenly looses it's "brooding horror" and becomes a creature-camp-fest. Or the movie "Signs", when the alien is finally revealed in all it's horrible CGI glory.... as soon as the creature appears, the imagination is usually proved superior...

A good example I guess would be the movie "Cloverfield", where the marketing of the film and the first part doesn't show the creature at all, but heavily lays on the implications... then, when the creature IS revealed, it's a BIG scene and the creature is UNEXPECTED... it drops off little critters, looks like nothing we've seen before and is wreaking HAVOC... so they did it right, in my opinion... they let your brain do all the horrible conjuring, but then they CHANGE the dynamic of the flick when the big reveal comes..
Another kind of good example is "The Host", where the creature BURSTS onto the scene in the first 15 minutes... then instead of taking the "creature movie" route, it becomes a dramatic family rescue mission... changing the pace, keeping us on edge, in suspense...

There's a french film I saw at the Toronto Film Fest this year called "The Martyrs"... SPOILERS AHEAD: the first half is about a little revenge story- a lesbian couple invades a house and kills a family (children included) because one of the girls had narrowly escaped torture by the adults when she was a child... but then half-way through it switches gears and suddenly the tortured-girl's girlfriend finds herself being tortured by some sinister organization. The ending is quite philosophical, in that we find out that the "organization" has been torturing people for ages trying to bring some people so close to death that they "see the other side" in hopes of reporting back... WOAH! Big twist! The movie leads you down one path, imagining the horror of the tortured little girl by watching her take brutal revenge... but then spins you, and right when your imagination has supposedly maxed out the possibilities, BAM, they throw a curve-ball and then TOP whatever it is you are imagining.

So what I think makes a good "horror movie" is where they can set it up so your imagination can run wild (subsequently scaring the crap out of you) and then when the movie gives it's "big twist/reveal/plot point" it has to BEAT your imagination with something so unexpected, you couldn't have even imagined the horror of it all.

So what's scary then? Is it Spiders? Flies? Or being able to come up with something WAY more disturbing/horrifying/shocking/gory than what the audience can imagine???
 
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Well i will have to agree with Satula.......

Few weeks back i saw a movie and the monster creature was shown nearly at the last 15 mins of the movie. Till that time i was really dieng to see what is it.........But after watching it the susense or fear was gone... but subtracting those 15 mins out i had great interest in the movie.


I agree with Satula.
 
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