Different strokes for different folks. I personally like Borges' conception >In a story by Chesterton — 'The Head of Caesar,' I think — the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center. This film is precisely that labyrinth.
This is why films like The Shining and even Welles' The Trial are so unnerving
Scary horror films (at least for me) skirt the line between the natural and the supernatural for as long as possible
Blair Witch: The audience are left guessing whether it's the witch or rednecks fricking around in the woods for more than 1/2 the movie
Werewolf from London: You don't know whether he's actually a werewolf or just freaking out until he finally transforms on the full moon
Fright Night: You can't decide if the kid is just imaginative and watching too many horror films until he spies the next door vampire biting a woman
The Shining: You don't know if Jack is losing his mind or if there are evil spirits commanding him well into the movie
> jump scare > ghost nun with a spooky face
"cheap scares" are scary, but very short lived, just a second or less.
I'd argue that A24-style 'trauma' horror is also cheap, since it exploits real world negative emotions rather than pure fear.
This, letting the viewer fill in the blanks is how to create lasting fear. It doesn't imply anything specific, other than dread and terror. It evokes the same type of fear as, for example, being alone in the woods at night with no flashlight or protection. Another good example of this is the very ending of Black Christmas (1974) it subverts expectations but showing that the pervert living in the house is none of the characters introduced in the movie, a seemingly random person who is unknown to the viewers and characters that is jerking off in their attic. The viewer must fill in the blank themselves.
What's most annoying is it's pretty clearly just shills pushing gullible anons to sign up to the latest datamining scheme
If you want to shill buy a fricking banner
What's most annoying is it's pretty clearly just shills pushing gullible anons to sign up to the latest datamining scheme
If you want to shill buy a fricking banner
-jump scares
-rapid broken violin
-when you see a shadow behind someone
-the bathroom mirror cabinet closing
-white women being gaslit by their partners
What's the best scary movie? It seems like horror is one of the worst genres since it's just cheap jump scares. What's a horror movie that could genuinely win best picture?
>It seems like horror is one of the worst genres since it's just cheap jump scares.
I like a basedarino slow burn spine tingler to go with my onions milkies
it's pic rel and it's not even a horror movie: >man is plastic surgeon >wife gets in car crash, horifically burned >when she sees what she looks like, commits suicide in front of daughter >daughter is traumatized and develops mental illness >years later tries to frick a pretty boy in a party >freaks out >dad thinks he raped her >kidnaps him >gives him a neovegana >slowly does plastic surgery on him to make him look like his wife >fricks him every night >gets raped by a mentally ill tiger once >kills doctor >escapes
scarier than every muh knife killer story ever. It would be elevated into actual horror only if it didn't have a "happy" ending
"Horror" is very subjective. For example, I don't find your pic scary whatsoever. However, someone else might. For me personally, the more realistic a movie is involving something that could happen, the scarier it is. Which is the opposite with 95% of Horror movies that have been released. Only children find monsters 'scary'. Actual serial killers that could be alive in your world are more terrifying.
I don't find serial killers and such "scary", to me it's just depressing, morbid and grim. What's scary to me is facing something that you can't fight back against or take preventive measures against, so it's mainly supernatural shit that scares me.
If you can achieve that, you've successfully scared them. If you want to do it WELL, then you'll need to make them feel like they're in danger long after they've watched the movie. The scariest movies make you look over your shoulder for weeks on end.
You're looking out the window of an old shitty house watching the sunset. You live alone near the woodland. You look towards the tree line and see a figure darting in and out of the trees. Its too far to make out a face but you hear laughter. It stops suddenly and looks toward you. It definitely noticed your presence. You cant tell if its a man or a women but its definitely human shaped. It slowly retreats into the dark bramble never turning away from your gaze. Must of been the wind. Later that night your watching anime like a homosexual when the electricity goes out. Glass shatters down stairs. You hear something barreling up the stairs. Its quiet for 3 minutes. It jiggles your door and you walk the dinosaur
>Explain to me what makes a movie scarey
exploiting the uncanny valley, dissonant music/sound effects, volume tricks, turn your brain off/suspension of disbelief, edging along social taboo borders, etc but its most lmao just turn your brain off. the rest will do what its intended pretty naturally.
The ending of Hereditary is the only horror movie that has really unnerved me. Not the wacky parts of the mother flying around, but the naked cultists and Paimon. Something about the idea of ordinary people worshipping a satanic influence.
The scene that's frightened me the most in any horror film and is even effective for me on repeat viewings is the scene where the ghost woman floats towards the bed in A tale of two sisters. Also that other (not especially scary in general) jap movie where a guy enters a "forbidden room" and a ghost lady slow-mo runs towards him. I think I'm just scared of ghosts, bros.
Black people
Different strokes for different folks. I personally like Borges' conception
>In a story by Chesterton — 'The Head of Caesar,' I think — the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center. This film is precisely that labyrinth.
This is why films like The Shining and even Welles' The Trial are so unnerving
>The more the audience does in their head, the better
This. The killer standing right in front of you in the house isn't scarey. Not knowing where the killer is in the house is
Or what's even scarier, 'what' the killer is.
Scary horror films (at least for me) skirt the line between the natural and the supernatural for as long as possible
Blair Witch: The audience are left guessing whether it's the witch or rednecks fricking around in the woods for more than 1/2 the movie
Werewolf from London: You don't know whether he's actually a werewolf or just freaking out until he finally transforms on the full moon
Fright Night: You can't decide if the kid is just imaginative and watching too many horror films until he spies the next door vampire biting a woman
The Shining: You don't know if Jack is losing his mind or if there are evil spirits commanding him well into the movie
This, and realism, fake shit isn't scary, Hush was great at not showing anything.
> jump scare
> ghost nun with a spooky face
"cheap scares" are scary, but very short lived, just a second or less.
I'd argue that A24-style 'trauma' horror is also cheap, since it exploits real world negative emotions rather than pure fear.
This, letting the viewer fill in the blanks is how to create lasting fear. It doesn't imply anything specific, other than dread and terror. It evokes the same type of fear as, for example, being alone in the woods at night with no flashlight or protection. Another good example of this is the very ending of Black Christmas (1974) it subverts expectations but showing that the pervert living in the house is none of the characters introduced in the movie, a seemingly random person who is unknown to the viewers and characters that is jerking off in their attic. The viewer must fill in the blank themselves.
Wtf,is this real? What is that horned beast?
The perfect woman
>wtf is this real
No you fricking moron
plz lurk moar
>muh shit memes
Disagree. Look at the detail of the horns. You can also clearly see the head is attached to the body
its a demon. if you were there irl it would just look like your regular old dicky.
Obama phone
Satan was unemployed during the late 1800s so he found work where he could.
baby yeed
>more ai slop
Need a containment board for this shit
What's most annoying is it's pretty clearly just shills pushing gullible anons to sign up to the latest datamining scheme
If you want to shill buy a fricking banner
It's a real photo
newbies
>me second to right
-jump scares
-rapid broken violin
-when you see a shadow behind someone
-the bathroom mirror cabinet closing
-white women being gaslit by their partners
Bet one of them smells like crusty toenails and dollar store plastic
sound design.
the major reason david lynch's shit is unnerving is his attention to the soundscape.
Scary faces.
What's the best scary movie? It seems like horror is one of the worst genres since it's just cheap jump scares. What's a horror movie that could genuinely win best picture?
>It seems like horror is one of the worst genres since it's just cheap jump scares.
I like a basedarino slow burn spine tingler to go with my onions milkies
>What's the best scary movie?
>What's a horror movie that could genuinely win best picture?
Those are two completely different questions
it's pic rel and it's not even a horror movie:
>man is plastic surgeon
>wife gets in car crash, horifically burned
>when she sees what she looks like, commits suicide in front of daughter
>daughter is traumatized and develops mental illness
>years later tries to frick a pretty boy in a party
>freaks out
>dad thinks he raped her
>kidnaps him
>gives him a neovegana
>slowly does plastic surgery on him to make him look like his wife
>fricks him every night
>gets raped by a mentally ill tiger once
>kills doctor
>escapes
scarier than every muh knife killer story ever. It would be elevated into actual horror only if it didn't have a "happy" ending
Sounds like sordid homosexual nonsense
What movie
The Skin I Live In
That fricking disgusting, but not horror per se
Dis one is scary
"Horror" is very subjective. For example, I don't find your pic scary whatsoever. However, someone else might. For me personally, the more realistic a movie is involving something that could happen, the scarier it is. Which is the opposite with 95% of Horror movies that have been released. Only children find monsters 'scary'. Actual serial killers that could be alive in your world are more terrifying.
I don't find serial killers and such "scary", to me it's just depressing, morbid and grim. What's scary to me is facing something that you can't fight back against or take preventive measures against, so it's mainly supernatural shit that scares me.
big boobs put more boobs in movies sir
Putting the audience in a sense of danger.
If you can achieve that, you've successfully scared them. If you want to do it WELL, then you'll need to make them feel like they're in danger long after they've watched the movie. The scariest movies make you look over your shoulder for weeks on end.
racism
You're looking out the window of an old shitty house watching the sunset. You live alone near the woodland. You look towards the tree line and see a figure darting in and out of the trees. Its too far to make out a face but you hear laughter. It stops suddenly and looks toward you. It definitely noticed your presence. You cant tell if its a man or a women but its definitely human shaped. It slowly retreats into the dark bramble never turning away from your gaze. Must of been the wind. Later that night your watching anime like a homosexual when the electricity goes out. Glass shatters down stairs. You hear something barreling up the stairs. Its quiet for 3 minutes. It jiggles your door and you walk the dinosaur
>Explain to me what makes a movie scarey
exploiting the uncanny valley, dissonant music/sound effects, volume tricks, turn your brain off/suspension of disbelief, edging along social taboo borders, etc but its most lmao just turn your brain off. the rest will do what its intended pretty naturally.
for me its the "trapped with the evil and theres no escape" kinos like alien and the thing
in that picture it's obviously the gay couple
nothing if you're older than 16
I don't find some horror movies scary, but I do find some of them disgusting. It's not the same.
The ending of Hereditary is the only horror movie that has really unnerved me. Not the wacky parts of the mother flying around, but the naked cultists and Paimon. Something about the idea of ordinary people worshipping a satanic influence.
Scary faces
Two men kissing
The scene that's frightened me the most in any horror film and is even effective for me on repeat viewings is the scene where the ghost woman floats towards the bed in A tale of two sisters. Also that other (not especially scary in general) jap movie where a guy enters a "forbidden room" and a ghost lady slow-mo runs towards him. I think I'm just scared of ghosts, bros.
The ones that really scare me are the ones that remind me of the real world. Something like Moby Dick
If it's slow burned and doesn't have infantile jump scares
> slow burned
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