how to make a horror movie
Ok folks.
In this clip I’m going to talk to you about how to make a horror movie.
The thing that separates horror from the pack, when it comes to all different types of movies that are produced in Hollywood every year is it the really strikes chord with our fear, in our personalities, and in our brains, it really doesn’t number on that side of us. That's why people like horror movies, they like to be scared. So, how do you make a good horror movie?
First, you need a really scary story. And you want try to do something that people haven’t seen before. Because when it comes to horror, you know…
They are so many ways to scare people. You can startle them, you can … you really creep them out, you can build up tension, but really there is only a few ways to be scared. If you want to try do it in an original way, so come up with a story that is unique. As unique as you can possibly make it.
Next you gonna write the script. And make sure you have a good script. Like any future film, you want make sure the script is top notch before you move into the next phase, which is: bringing on your crew, find a good group of people to work with you, hire all different department heads, bring along a producer (if you are not the producer), find a creative team that can really bring this vision of yours to life. Get a good group of people working with you. That is incredibly important as well.
Then, you gonna want hire the actors. Hiring people that who are believable is incredibly important. Particularly in this genre, because if they come acrossed at all as fake or cheesy or ew… you’re not gonna end up with the good product, make sure they can act, that is incredibly important. And along goes lines you really want gonna invest and neither and individual or someone who’s gonna want to create the… the … the evil force in your film. Whatever if it’s a person or a monster or whatever, you just want to make sure that is the top notch head actor or creative team producing whatever this creature is going to become. Because your movie literally hangs on the success of this decision, if you make a bad decision and you… the evil does not come through, there is nothing to be scared off there, your movie will fall flat on its face. So make sure your villain, your antagonist is top notch, you have to have a truly frightening villain to make a successful horror film.
So when you have all this pieces in play, make a schedule, shoot’em the script, do as effective and effentienly as possible and add it together, and really feel the story as you put it together make sure as you edit the scene, as you build the scene, to create tension, to shock people, to scare people, make sure that it’s… it feels a little bit fun and not entirely gross cause you know that’s your artistic vision disturb the crap out of people.
A horror film has to be frightening and it has to feel tense feel tense and it should have a little bit of fun with it as well. If you can add all those components and you have a good group of people working with you, you have just made yourself a very successful and very well told horror film.