how many of you have done a horror film

**lowtek** · September 18th, 2003, 12:48 PM

i just wondered because i had an idea the other day about doin one with a phyco murderer with a couple of tools from the garden shed. some things in there are *******
leathle

any tips and info on your movies would be great

cheers

**belovedmonster** · September 18th, 2003, 12:50 PM

tips wise the best i can give you is to show less and hint at more...

it just wouldnt be scary seeing some mate of yours running round with a power drill or whatever. I think horror in general is very hard to do. But good luck

**untamed_aggression** · September 18th, 2003, 02:02 PM

It depends on the horror you're trying to do.

Straight, actually scary horror is ridiculously difficult unless you have the talent and a dedicated cast and crew.

However, if you're going for for a balls out gorefest it's often very entertaining even without budget, talent or a coherent story. See The Dead Next Door. Or Tw?tting Zombies.

**Chance1234** · September 18th, 2003, 08:14 PM

I think horror is one of the best genres to do on a low budget as you can get away with a **** of a lot, main piece of advice is horror is one of those great things you can have fun with so have fun! also campness can work

HEres a few links

this is a trailer of a short Deadlights i filmed years and years ago

http://www.chance.5ylac.btinternet.c...ownloads/dl.rm

And here are vairious bits from my horror feature (secon link is a rough cuts) which i will be finishing shooting on March next year after 3 and a half bloody years hoorah !

http://www.chance.5ylac.btinternet.c...ownloads/MI.rm

http://www.5ylac.s5.com/fldfiles/MI340.rm

**james2183** · September 18th, 2003, 08:22 PM

belovedmonster is right, show less. Leaves more to the imagination and makes your special effects less tacky. I made a short zombie film in my colleges science labs. I enjoyed it and the gruesome parts where just quick cuts which made the viewer think of worse than what actually happened.

**OfficeNN** · September 18th, 2003, 10:10 PM

And think very well the surroundings where movie is set and also the set lightning. If you shoot your horror movie in brith daylight, it?s not very scary, but if you shoot it in almoust darkness, the atmosphere is much better. If you have a cheap camera like I do, use a large contrast between darkness and light. For inscance, we did shoot a scene in the night, where the character had white clothes and then we did use a flashlight what was focused at the character. Here is a picture to show the outcome. Not a bad result, if you keep in mind that the camera?s price is about 600 euros (about same amount in US dollars).

armok02

**Yammeryammeryammer** · September 19th, 2003, 03:08 AM

The best horror flick I did was intended to be horror/comedy cause it was to play to a large audience at a fundraiser, and I figured straight out and out horror would really be a waste of their time if it didn't pan out as expected. I tried to make an a funny movie with a few scares in it. The scares worked, and the laughs were great, but the crucial part to the scares are the sounds. Unless you have a composer, the cheapest, easiest, and creepiest way to make good building mood music is with wine glasses. Get a few of them, with different amounts of liquid, and make them sing, then slow or speed up the clips until you get a good mix. Easy way to build suspense, then all you need is a startaling sound effect a few db above normal, and whammo, you have a makeshift scare. Good luck.

**Vertino** · September 19th, 2003, 03:32 AM

Exactly! Its all down to the sound track of the horror movie (if you're going a straight horror film, not bloodfest).

We made one last year, Uninvited, but we used loads of audio from a copyrighted CD, really good effective music... but it didn't get any further than family & friends as we'd be sued to death!!!

I prefer suspense building movies... always leading upto a climax... then scaring the **** outta the audience!!!

**james2183** · September 19th, 2003, 06:17 PM

28 Days Later is not a zombie movie though so how could you have copied it?

**turbospielberg** · September 19th, 2003, 09:17 PM

I wanted to do a zombie movie where the zombies ran, and the humour was like Starship Troopers. ALEX GARLAND- Writer; 28 Days Later

Rage; what if we could employ that as the element that constitutes the zombies? DANNY BOYLE- Director; 28 Days Later

Elements playing into it [28 Days Later] were the George A. Romero zombie films, Day of the Triffids and the Resident Evil games... ALEX GARLAND- Writer; 28 Days Later

I want the right balance between the scares of the zombie subject matter and the seriousness of the subject. ANDREW MACDONALD- Producer; 28 Days Later

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