'Welcome Home, *beep*
Anyone else laugh out loud at that?
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It's the smallest & simplest things that are the scariest in these types of movies. I mean, the scariest part of the finale was the curtain moving, not the exploding helium tanks or the giant ice block. In horror movies, what you don't show is always scarier than what you do.
I used to have the Willem Dafoe living under my bed.
Exactly, jamieleng. I agree completely!
That's why films like The Blair Witch Project and the Paranormal Activity series are so horrifying.
You never see the villain! I hope they never show either one, at least until the absolute final film.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
In horror movies, what you don't show is always scarier than what you do.
That simple truism has, sadly, been largely forgotten by those who have made horror movies since the heyday of the 1970s and early 1980s. share
The whole "what you don't see" thing works so well. It's a bloody shame this (and make-up/prosthetics) has been replaced these days with CGI and jump scares.
The most effective moment in any horror movie was the camera racing through the woods in the Evil Dead with that music. You got the character's sense of dread that they could feel something evil and terrifying that they couldn't see. It reminds us of those moments where we're alone and we can feel something and maybe it's our own paranoia or maybe it's a presence, but it feels palpable. It plays on a very real feeling and says "maybe it isn't all in your head". Those psychological mind games from older movies did far more than any computer generated face.