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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 4, 2011 0:07:53 GMT -5
Do you think tricking the audience by making them think it's about something else and not horror could be used to scare them better?
On one hand it would kind of piss you off ,but I think that maybe it could be used pretty well. I think that one of the problem's of a horror movie is that no matter how good something's going you know that eventually it's going to go to hell which ruin's the surprise or shock.
I kind of think this could be utilized in a smaller way. What do you guys think?
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 4, 2011 3:52:39 GMT -5
I like when the audience is tricked. It's psychological horror, and it goes back all the way to Norman Bates. Haute Tension and Identity did a great job of tricking the audience, and Candyman teetered between tricking and being straight up what you see is what you are getting (...but is she maybe crazy?).
I love movies that make me think "what the hell is happening?", and outside the horror genre I'd throw Fight Club, Jacob's Ladder, and The Usual Suspects into that grouping.
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Post by madmanmaple on Oct 4, 2011 16:23:13 GMT -5
I've thought of this one time. Watch this lame trailer.
Really sweet, warm movie right. Well imagine if the studio released that trailer as is, but half way through the real movie De Niro becomes a homicidal maniac and starts brutally killing members of his family one by one at the holiday dinner. The audience wouldn't know what the hell to think.
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Post by Killer Rob on Oct 6, 2011 21:41:46 GMT -5
I like this idea. I laugh at the thought of turning some romantic comedy/date movie into a brutal slasher halfway through!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 22, 2011 20:28:58 GMT -5
Yeah I think something like that would be awesome it would truly be horrifying because their wonderful life would really go to hell.
If you think about it Alfred Hitchcock did this with psycho. He made it look like the woman who gets killed in the shower was the main character in the trailers so when she did die it really shocked the audience and created an anybody can die/anything can happen vibe since they thought that by character shields she'd be safe that early in.
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Post by Neal on Oct 23, 2011 1:40:57 GMT -5
From Dusk Til Dawn doesn't turn into a horror film til like half way or more though.
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Post by luditesupreme on Oct 23, 2011 2:09:00 GMT -5
From Dusk Til Dawn doesn't turn into a horror film til like half way or more though. for some reason no matter how much i love vampires and do love vampires i like the crime part of the movie better''I DID SAY FUCKING HELP US'' It doesn't get ant any better than that accept maybe satanico padimonium's speach
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 23, 2011 3:31:02 GMT -5
Okay, I get the gist of this thread and it's spirit.
Tobe Hooper's The Toolbox Murders.
SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER Sherry Moon is in the first few minutes, and appears to be the victim in peril of the film, but she is killed by the reverse side of a hammer, the claw-end, by minute five.
And then at about the six minute or so mark, we meet Angela Bettis.
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