What's the best setting for a horror movie?
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I'd say somewhere that takes you out of your comfort zone. As in, progressively destroys a place that was once your comfort zone through the movie. Silent Hill 4 would be a good example of the concept, but I've never actually played it so I can't speak for the quality of the game.
A bright and cheery place. This makes the unspeakable horrors that are about to befall even more scary.
This is also why clowns are terrifying!
This is also why clowns are terrifying!
Post Apocalyptic or Victorian London; in the former, it is the setting itself which is horrifying (at least to me...) and the events therein are, subsequently, unavoidable. In the latter, it is the atrocities which are committed within the stilted yet rotten frame-work of classical society which draw fear... Or Japan. Japan is good.
In space, I'm sure Leprechaun some number In Space proved this point. Also Jason X, he's in space then, right?
An apartment building, a cheap abandoned one, with underground parking lots. I mean first of all you have narrow hallways, You can't really go any where unless you break into a room, you never know where what ever you're running away from is, and if you go to the underground parking lot its creepy as hell. Imagine being stuck in that.
Looks behind himliamlemon7 said:
Face gets eaten off by Kirby. The one from There Will be Brawl [sub]oh god the nightmares [/sub]
OT: I would have to say a neighborhood that seems peaceful and totally not sinister but something dark is just waiting to happen
[sub]like a homicidal pink flesh eating blob going on a rampage.[/sub]
[sub][sub]There Will be Brawl ruined Kirby for me, cant you tell[/sub][/sub]
Any place that seems normal, something close to what you experience every day. That way, the movie still freaks you out even after you've finished watching.
I like the idea of a forest, or a mental asylum. For the former, I'm actually planning a screenplay for a short film to shoot with my fellow film-makers/friends at university, which isn't strictly a horror but is meant to creep the viewer out. Basically, it's a love square type thing, an emotional drama, but one of the characters casts a spell from some 'black magic' website she found (said character is interested in the occult and whatnot, while her friends are skeptic), and it's never explained if the spell was real or not, but various weird stuff starts to happen. The idea is that the background music starts fairly normally but becomes (very subtly and gradually) much more tense and creepy, there will be deliberate continuity errors between cuts to try and heighten the tension, and so on. And it's set in the middle of the woods, on a camping trip (really Roundhay Park, and 'folly' in the shape of a castle, in Leeds).
As for the other, I can probably come up with a decent horror tale set in a mental asylum, but without following all the old cliches. Oh, and yes, for the record, I did love Shutter Island and thought it was an exceptionally excellent movie.
As for the other, I can probably come up with a decent horror tale set in a mental asylum, but without following all the old cliches. Oh, and yes, for the record, I did love Shutter Island and thought it was an exceptionally excellent movie.
So this is how you want to playThe Amazing Tea Alligator said:liamlemon7 said:Don't worry this picture is so cute you will love Kirby againCpu46 said:
