Why is horror so hard to do right?

Why is horror so hard to do right?

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Because normies don't want to be truly scared, they want to be entertained, and the movie industry caters to them.

you're trying to trigger a primal response of fear from someone who is comfortably sitting in a room somewhere looking at a screen.

because they want the goyim to remain asleep

I got frightened and uneasy looking at this painting even though it's just medieval fantasy shit.

How much of a pussy am I?

Which is why you must immerse them into what they are watching. I'll admit it's no easy feat.

I have a horror movie screenplay that has literally 3 lines of dialogue and is just 90 minutes following some guy go about his day. I get spooked reading it honestly.

its pretty illegal to show really scary things since it could harm children who in the west are viewed as sacred to to their innocence.

Because frightening is with a loud bang is easy, genuinely creeping them out with patience and atmosphere is difficult
Also normies love jump scares

it's all been done

Because horror today is equated to jump scares and jump scares alone.

I can almost guaratee that your screenplay is shit.

t. script reader specializing in horror shit

That's a big dragon

What are some other unexpected horrorkino?

I can almost guarantee you've never read anything like it

Haven't eaten at a single fast food place after watching this. Scared me into a healthy diet.

Modern mainstream horror has become a cinematic haunted house. It's 90 minutes that normies can use as an event to seek attention from their friends by screaming and making little quips before a jumpscare and saying "don't go in there". I love horror, it's my favorite genre, but I'll never go to a popular horror movie opening week again. I recently saw Lights Out and beside it being a crap movie the entire theater was nonstop noise of people seeking attention through their stupid fucking comments and their over the top reactions to scenes that weren't even that scary.

Lets see it, a small scene.

Assuming those ships are 30 meters long that thing could eat Godzilla in one bite and then pick his teeth with Smaug

idk why I found this movie comfy

Fuck, all of this. I seen The Babadook and the audience was laughing and hooting the entire time, making shitty loud comments so all their equally unfunny friends could hear.

Getting dragged to Ted 2 to witness the audience make up their own jokes as the film went along was some surreal shit too.

Because everyone is afraid of different things


To have a movie actually be scary it has to leave a bit to the imagination of the viewer

Why do you live in a ghetto?

>Modern mainstream horror has become a cinematic haunted house.
>implying this hasn't been the standard for decades now
>implying indie horror isn't a thing

Yeah, I remember the gingerbread man movie That was some classic horror. Not like millenial movies today!

>Everything is nice
>then suddenly
>Gore, jump scare, or literally nothing

Horror can't evolve or change. It's like a joke you that you already know the setup and punchline to.

Stupid image.
Stupid creature design. Doesn't follow Cube Law.

muh entertainment.

I don't, it's just that the modern audience seem to think their input on a movie while it's playing is somehow wanted or needed.

Second post best post.

I live in San Diego and avoid the ghetto areas. It's just modern movie audiences generally suck unless I pay for the higher priced theaters which I have to do now

does anyone know the name of the painting? I want it on my wall.

I think it's called "beksinski (36).jpg"

That's fucking horrifying

you're a pretty big pussy

Scaring kids is easy. Scareing adults is possible, but it would be super disturbing and would leave them scarred, wouldnt be fun or profitable.

Hack and slash, jump scare horror is retard grade horror.

I was more freaked out by "This house has people in it" on youtube than any try hard zombie, monster, horror film.

He could be friendly

Was painting a big dragon part of the plan?

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Tell me what you like about my shit short-film of horror :^)

>yfw horror is always better in movies that aren't explicitly about horror

Rogue

Directors don't know how to do a constant state of tension in horror movies.

Predictable storyline followed by overdone cliches.

>BW came out
>made shitloads of money
>FF took off and is pouring out shitty movies even today

>saw came out
Saw 1 is a very good movie, the movie just got hurt by people wanting to watch it because of the foot and not the psychological/dread of the film, the movie again made shitheaps of money and the studios heard "they really liked the foot part, must love more gorey horror" and there.

Audiences these days, sadly, have bad attention spans so you need constant action, with horror it's in the form of a jumpscare but a jump scare isn't worth shit without build up/setting and a feeling of dread.

Horror is also a genre you have to actually watch to feel what's at stake, you can't just look at it as you watch it.

Jumpscares have also created the most moronic people, since movies have jumpscares you have people watching these movies deadpan, awaiting a jumpscare, only to say "lol, wasn't scared"

this tbqhwu

>beksinski (36).jpg
Thanks!

Sounds like you had an unknown case of Megalophobia, fear of giant things.

Tfw I can't watch horror, even "spooky" bits in comedy shows scare me.

turn the lights on like nigga watch it during the day how the fuck is horror real close your eyes

Same reason comedy is hard to do right. It's not a "genre", it's an audience reaction. Horror is harder to do than comedy, too, because with comedy it's straightforward: keep funny stuff coming at the audience for 2 hours, make them laugh a lot and they'll like it. With horror you have to keep them in a state of being horrified, which is hard to consistently do without alienating them since it's a negative reaction.

The only way I legitimately get scared is when I'm high and overthinking spooky scenes and imagine that happening in real life.

I can't remember the last time I was scared by a movie desu. I love that shit

zladislaw beksinski didnt really title his paintings but thats the artist

Name one thing people are generally, genuinely afraid of.

You can't

With the death of fear, so did capitalization upon said fears for entertainment.

I find horror movies incredibly boring and cliche most of the time.

oh, figured it was the artist name, just assumed the painting would have a name. A lot easier to find it if it had a name... Thanks anyway.

Different people are afraid of different things, user.

Fear of being attacked in your safespace, earlier horror movies banked on this idea. Modern, not so much.

Your safe space meaning, your house, your work, a summercamp

somewhere you're supposed to be safe but aren't.

Modern movies take the easy route and say "this house in haunted and shit will go down" people don't care about that. If you're gonna run in the line of fire, you're gonna get hit

That's why modern movies like paranormal activity 1 and stuff are so greatly received.

The wrong types of people make horror movies.
Cronenberg never made a scary movie, he's just a pretentious special effects ideas man.

>Name one thing people are generally, genuinely afraid of.
Disease. People they know getting hurt and killed. Scary dogs. Cmon nigger people are scared to go outside because of school shooters and shit

I think that horror movies today make monsters who's intentions are too clear.

People know what to expect and that is the biggest problem with trying to create a scary atmosphere.

Silent hill is an example of a movie that kept everyone guessing in regards to monsters being dangerous and their motives when they appeared.

You have to keep the powers of the monster utterly mysterious, and make the main character run into plenty of horrors that dont want to kill to keep a steady state of suspense without exhausting the thrill of deadly scenarios.

Above all you have to endear the audience to the main character and then make the main character as small and alone and hopeless as possible.

Another thing silent hill did pretty well.

post here, very intrigued

morgan spurlock went to my high school and i sort of knew his nephew or younger cousin or some shit. ironically i eat mcdonalds every day and have for over a year, and i'm fine

Nobody taught directors how horror is supposed to feel for the audience.

I wish Tarantino would make one. He knows how to build tension in a scene.

>What is Blumhouse Productions

Contagion is the best horror film in 10 years, prove me wrong.

>jesus camp
>being afraid of what some fringe groups believe

you're a faggot

what's the story behind this? also why is that ship flying a Canadian flag?

i dont get it

It's a screamer image.

HO! TAKE IT EASY

It means you have a good imagination. It registers to you how fucking horrifying that would be if you saw it for real. That's a good thing user.

HVAC guy here

Fun fact, the ice machines in usual fast food chains are notoriously under maintained, to the point of often getting mold growth in the ice. Think about the last time you got the shits from Taco Bell; I'd put it 10 to 1 you had a drink with ice in it.

That is indeed unsettling. Imagining a creature that immense provokes a kind of vertiginous feeling in my belly. Also that we can semi-clearly see only part of the dragon adds to the effect. Never reveal the whole monster. I suppose this is something like what Lovecraft was getting at.

And I am very thankful I have the ability to suspend disbelief and really immerse myself in a film, more so with well made films I enjoy. I kind of feel sorry for the seeming vast majority that can't, won't or doesn't know how to. I can barely look at this frame from The Exorcist, because I know what immediately preceded it and the fact that Regan/demon has a "I did a bad thing" girlish look terrifies me.

Fuck this thread. I'm out

>This house has people in it
Just watched it. Holy fuck. Unedited Footage of a Bear is also fantastic and scary.

>I've never seen Dead Ringers.

Whats the spooky part?

Is that ancalogon?

I have, it was laughably bad. I doubt even a fan could call it scary.

Fucking this. I had the exact same experience and I'm pretty devastated.

I just want a good abstract horror movie, you know, like the shit I see in nightmares that doesnt make any goddamn sense but is still frightening, when the nightmare itself isnt even set on earth or anything close to it

That dragon would collapse under its own weight lmao

Excuse me what the fuck. How this thing is supposed to worl?

>eats nothing but McDonalds every day at every meal and doesn't exercise
not saying McDonalds is healthy but it wasn't the one thing at fault here

>laughably bad
do go on.jpg
If you don't find a gynecologist insane enough to have his own new bizarre set of surgical tools made to operate on hallucinated "mutations" terrifying, I wonder what you do find so.

dragons aren't real

the point is any creature that big wouldnt be able to even exist

even in a fantasy world sense, you would have to imagine a world with completely different laws of physics and anatomy

Jumpscare over jumpscare is all we have now. Oh, and shitty dumbass false jumpscares too. Fuck everybody, fuck (You), fuck horror movies.

>>Modern mainstream horror has become a cinematic haunted house.
>>implying this hasn't been the standard for decades now
>i know absolutely nothing about the horror genre: the post

>the movie again made shitheaps of money and the studios heard "they really liked the foot part, must love more gorey horror" and there.
Are you trying to parrot that inane misconception that Saw spawned a torture porn cycle of horror? Because if you actually think that you're a fucking retard, perhaps you should educate yourself on matters before you try to talk about them, you're just making yourself look like a moron.

thats why its called fantasy you dope

I thought this movie was pretty spoopy

American horror
>Jump scares and gore
Asian horror
>Atmophere and creepiness
The Japs so South Koreans got horror right.

Are you actually using imdb ratings and RT score as an indication of quality?

The plot outline doesn't matter when it's tedious in practice. I did say he was a glorified ideas man.

I think is more about the fear that left in your mind after the movie.

For example, tonight I go to the roof to see the stars.
And a shooting star pass.

After the star pass I think; "What if a star really can reduce us to dust?"

Its concept art from guild wars 2.

The guy copy-pastes a lot.

It's only hard when you are not asian

Good pick. It doesn't get the praise it deserves.

There was a "pass the controller, bro" threads on Sup Forums a few weeks back with a picture of a very recently deceased horse's foot without a hoof. That's the most horrifying thing I've seen in a few years now.

I didn't save it but that's enough to google.

Body Horror. It's easy because you're human and your brain literally can't handle it easy.

Also I'm going to abandon thread now because someone is gonna post it because I said it.

Don't leave user :3

Well there's a sight you don't see every day

Fuck yeah body horror, it's a shame that genre is dead