Not all scary movies are actually all that scary so what is it about the best scary movies that make them so much more terrifying than the rest? It’s in the editing.
Now You See It shows us how great horror filmmakers can make a scary scene stand out by slowly building out the suspense in a terrifyingly uncomfortable scene. It’s that extra second they spend on a shot, that camera angle they use, and the environment in which it’s set that makes a scene genuinely scary.
But too often, filmmakers use a bunch of quick and sudden cuts to scare us. That only adds up to a bunch of little scares versus one really big scare. To illustrate his point, he shows a scene from a current horror movie Lights Outand the original short film it was based on. The short film held a shot longer, showed a different camera angle, and put the scene inside the actress’ home. The theatrical release didn’t build up the scare enough, never showed the haunting perspective that the ‘monster’ sees, and places the scene inside some random creepy warehouse.
After you watch both, it’s obvious that the short film definitely had the scarier scene even if it was done with a much lower budget. Check it out below.
source: gizmodo.com by Casey Chan
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