How do you write good horror?

How do you write good horror?

Any Sup Forums script writers working on horror stuff at the moment?

what do you want to see more/less of in horror today?

>handheld camera
>lots of jump scares
>little girls
>possession.

We got it boys.

Best horror is Lovecraft.
Imagine a movie where Tom Cruise is exploring some kind of seaside cave and then Cthulu pops out in an absolutely pants-shitting jumpscare and Cruise starts tearing his hair out being like "I'M GOING INSANE! I'M GOING INSANE!"
Too intense for the unwashed masses.

Jesus

giving me the willies just thinking about it.

v. unsettling desu

First season of True Detective was an hint of what good Lovecraftian horror could be. It's slowly hinted at, it's not in your face. It's in the reveal and in what you piece together slowly and what you IMAGINE is happening. I really thought that they were going to run with what they hinted at by the end of season 1. Too bad they went with such a boring season 2.

Not actually showing the terror/baddie/whatever, like Ted the Caver

Those Czech pornos are getting very artsy.

Ideally TD1 should've ended with Rust going to the ruins to pursue the killer and then nobody ever heard of him again and the final interview is Marty just being unable to wrap his head around the entire mystery.

The best type of horror is horror caused by mass fear and ambiguity. The most realistic and terrifying situations on film are moments when our humanity is tested through events we can't explain. We should fear one another more than we fear the monsters under our beds

>pic related; by far the best horror movie created

At some point I heard there was going to be a film based on Dracula about the voyage of the Demeter. It would have been about the transport of Dracula's coffin and the crew of the ship going mad, hearing wolves, and disappearing one by one, all that stuff.

It sounded like it would have been scary. It's one of the most chilling parts of the book.

I enjoyed The Mist but I didn't really like the ending, just seemed a bit too "shock value".

I preferred the ending in the book where they just drive off into the mist, never knowing what's going to happen.

> nudes
> alt music

I liked the ending they had but I agree this would have been a better ending to fit with its Lovecraftian themes.

>car crash
>sex scene turns into something horrifying
>main character learns something from a university professor.

Yeah I'm writing a western horror now for a director.

I want to see better characters and genre-blending.

what sort of tone are you going for?

Bone Tomahawk style or something else?

I liked Bone Tomahawk but mine is more like The Witch, except terrifying instead of just unsettling.

Nice, what sort of landscape are you using? Barren salt flats or pine trees in the mountains like The Revenant?

How do you write a good film you fucking retard?

Why do you horror is a special case?

Fucking faggot, make a good movie.

>How do you write a good film you fucking retard?
>Why do you horror is a special case?

How do you write a proper sentence you fucking retard?

>Doesn't start running
He'd never sign on

No movie will ever come close to the eeriness of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby.
The horror genre has no potential. It has already been dried out.

Memories of Murder is canonically a horror. This is how horror should be

No, it should be like Cure

>first 45 minutes of the film set up real connection with the audience, plays like a straight up drama with no eeriness
>the first killing should've be unexpected and brutal with no music (think Zodiac)
>all the violence is extremely real and visceral
>each proceeding death should be longer, quieter and taken with a still single shot which gets further away with each killing
>there should be no backstory or attempt to provide a motive to the killer, he remains completely unknown
>the final killing is not shown on screen instead it is simply heard with a backdrop of the surroundings
>credits roll

Not a script writer, but working on a horror novel. This Is Spinal Tap meets The Shining.
>what do you want to see more/less of in horror today?
Less generic, gloomy, grey "teen horror" releases (The Bye Bye Man (2016), Demonic (2014), Satanic (2016), etc).
More post-ironic, meta comedy horrors (Detention (2010), Tucker and Dale Vs Evil (2010), Dude Bro Party Massacre 3 (2015), The Final Girls (2015)).
Also like a lot of the recent string of serialised slasher TV series like Scream Queens, the Scream series, or last year's Slasher

The best horrors are the disconnected, disillusionment inducing ones.

More like Cure than that A girl walks home alone at night

most horror tropes should be avoided entirely, frighten your audience with the depths to which ordinary people will sink when they are subjected to extraordinary fear
any violence should be startling and don't just throw in cheap violence, it needs to actually feed the narrative

You should watch Eden Lake