Horror Research

1. Genre - Horror
2. Content - Elicits fear into the audience. Uses dark setting and suspenseful scenes as well as creepy and eerie music. The audiences fears and nightmares should be exposed in the plot. Examples of horrors characteristics include an evil force, event, or elements such as zombies, demons, or vicious animals.
3. Production Techniques - In the screenplay, there has to be clear motivation and understanding outcomes when producing a plot for a horror film. There are many films that include jump scares, which is a quiet scene interrupted by a loud sound to awake the audience and create fear in the film. With relation to gore, horror movies are usually extremely bloody and gutty scenes. Underexposed experiments, such as dark locations cause a feeling of unsure and uneasiness with relation to the senses. Finally, with sound, a soundtrack is an extremely important aspect of a horror film, and will allow the audience to remember the film and make it memorable.
4. Film example #1 - “IT” is a horror/thriller made in 2017 about a shape-shifting monster who appears in the movie as Penny-wise the Clown. A group of seven kids, decide to group together to fight against the monster. The movie is a horror from the fear that is instilled into the audience of a creepy clown living inside a sewer who comes out and kidnaps children in a little town in Maine.
5. Film example #2 - “Annabelle” is a film about a rare vintage doll given as a gift from a man to his wife. Then, one night, a satanic cult breaks into the house and attack the couple. The doll now possesses an evil spirit and haunts the family. The movie being considered a horror movie is self-explanatory in that there is an evil doll looking to haunt and kill and innocent family.
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