I'm thinking of writing a modern-day horror movie, to which I ask the general screenwriting public: what do you think makes a great horror movie? Just so we're clear, I'm not talking about the jump scare kind of horror movie. I'm talking about the kinds of horror films that chill you to your soul and keep you up at nights, thinking about it.
Screenwriting : It's a question of horror by Tony Ray
It's a question of horror
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Both are going to have jump scares, it's an effective tool.
Dread. Horror movies are all about dread.
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The answer is what scares you, and stays with you after you turn off the lights when you go to bed.
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What Lindbergh E Hollingsworth said.
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It's subjective but it's general it's the unknown or uncontrollable.
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It's not really the monster under the bed, but the monster in the bed with you. What do you really know about the person beside you? The person living next door? The person teaching your kids? The person prepping your food at the restaurant? The person who services your alarm system? I could go on, but you get the point.
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For me it's simple - ghosts! And that freaking clown, ya all know who IT refers to :)))
But, aside that I kinda have a feeling true scariness lies within the dark of the human nature. Most films (some of them can be called horrors) that left unpleasant mark on me were those of human-monsters among us...
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Dred. Giving the audience more information than your protagonist and making them worry for them.
Like hearing Cello music at the beach, a shark is coming.
I am writing a horror as well. In my script, a person that isn’t sure if they are part of a horror or imagining things. Bit of a horror trope. I am starting with a generic concept and develop it out from there.
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Realistic human reactions, fear that's generated in the mind, and a concept that haunts the viewer after the movie's finished.