Posted: Apr 28, 2015 11:30 am
The whole fucking point to making or writing horror is to stimulate the experience of fear in the audience. The best horror uses this to make a comment on something, to communicate a perspective. The most commonly cited examples are George A. Romero's Dead series, but they are by no means the only great examples.
There are recognised tropes that rely upon this, of course. That's why we take them int account when writing horror.
And yet I've had nightmares that have had nothing to do with horror movies. Fuck, the one I referenced earlier in this thread was entirely related to a comedy show. Last night I spent an hour in a semi-fugue designing a new horror trope. I wasn't scared for a second, but the shit I was constructing was fucking horriffic.
Yes, Scott, people get scared by movies. Just as they get excited, annoyed, angered, romanticised, aroused, and made laugh. That's kinda the fucking point of movies. Or books.
There are recognised tropes that rely upon this, of course. That's why we take them int account when writing horror.
And yet I've had nightmares that have had nothing to do with horror movies. Fuck, the one I referenced earlier in this thread was entirely related to a comedy show. Last night I spent an hour in a semi-fugue designing a new horror trope. I wasn't scared for a second, but the shit I was constructing was fucking horriffic.
Yes, Scott, people get scared by movies. Just as they get excited, annoyed, angered, romanticised, aroused, and made laugh. That's kinda the fucking point of movies. Or books.