Elements of a Horror

Horror movies have a sense of dread and foreboding in the genre. It also has a lot of suspense because that is what makes a movie really frightening. This usually involves pop-up scenes that usually come after a long period of silence which is common in horrors. The movie is often made very eery with a mixture of sense of visuals and sounds. The visuals are often very dark, often making it very mysterious and invoking our curiosity. Movies are often very gritty and make us feel out of our element, often putting us into situations that we often are not familiar with, such as a graveyard, or a dark forest. Most horrors also have a sense of using fantastic visuals whether done in a movie or a book, to make us really understand what is going on and scaring us from the use of great detail in the explanation. Dynamic shot's are often used where we can't see the whole picture and the music is often very eery and creates a great mood for a scare. The horror genre also sees a lot of the main characters have a powerlessness to fight with the opposing enemy and that is what often scares us because we a sense of powerlessness. This scares us because we have sense that we don't have a way to defend ourselves against the "bad guy".