Horror:
Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that are aimed to startle and scare the viewer; haunting and supernatural themes are the most frequent and commonly used. They may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres.
Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve an evil force, event, person, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Many elements included in horror films are things such as; ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, demons, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers.
- Location - normally the character/characters are placed in a lonely, isolated area e.g. a church, graveyard, attic etc.
- High/low camera angles - reveal power/lack of power
- Jump Cuts - quicken time
- Diegetic Sounds - give a sense of realism
- Non Diegetic Sounds - e.g. monster sounds to evoke fear
- Low-Key Lighting - create an eerie atmosphere
- Colour - generally dark
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