How Do You Make A Horror Film?
If you’ve got a thing for scary movies, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll want to make your own. Here are some ideas as to how to get started. • Get a scary idea for the movie. But make it original. • Add scary and scratchy, eerily atmospheric music for suspense. • Add scary, screechy music for when something surprising happens. • Have a scary killer/ monster/whatever. (For some reason killers/monsters that don’t talk are scarier than ones who do) Make sure their motive is simple (revenge/insanity is good) • Make something completely ordinary the center of the drama (paper bag, telephone, toilet, doorbell, TV, videotape). If you do it well, it will be scary! • Have a plot twist (at the end or middle end). • Add good effects (if the blood looks like ketchup you’re not going to scare anyone!) If you choose to go with effects…that is. Its proven that a sudden moment of suspense without graphic bloody violence is more scary because the watcher’s imagination finds the scariest poss
