Film Research!

People are always frightened when watching horror/suspense movies because of the thrilling elements that are featured in such films.

A fierce or frightening creature is often used to make this sort of plot. Horror/suspense movies haunt people by using plots related to supernatural events. In addition, a murderer is often a main character who kills other characters one by one, making people feel excited and anxious whilst watching. These are three typical horror elements found in many horror/suspense movies.

A fierce creature is the first typical element found in horror/suspense films. Many movies in this genre use a fierce animal to don this. Making that animal huge, evil and intelligent can horrify people. Using characters who are frightened and who run away from the fierce creature, excites people. Some of these characters sometimes fail to escape from these dangers. For example, in Jaws (1975), the shark is the main horror element. Steven Spielberg uses the huge shark to thrill and scare people.

The supernatural is the second thing which is used as a typical horror element in this movie category. Supernatural beings are used to scare and haunt people, with many ‘beings’ having a unique style, these films have become very popular. For example, Dracula is one of the most famous beings which has been used as a horror element. A lot of people in the world know what Dracula is and how scary he is. There are also other fearful popular beings like Dracula such as Frankenstein and other vampires. Ghosts are another supernatural element that are always found in horror/suspense films. In many movies, directors use ghosts which always haunt a particular old place as elements to horrify people. A last supernatural element is some situation that is unexplained and results the death of people one by one with no reason. For example, in Final Destination (2000), a boy has a premonition of his flight crashing and tells his friends to get off the plane before boarding. He and his friends are survivors after the crash in his dream becomes real. After that, the survivors get killed one by one in mysterious ways. Another example is the situation in The Ring (2002). People who watch a mysterious video die. Nobody can answer what happens in this circumstance until a young journalist try to investigate the history of that videotape, and she finds a solution in the end of the movie. However, there is another typical element in horror/suspense movies.

The third horror element in horror/suspense movies is murderers. Filmmakers often use a scary human character to be the typical element. In some movies, the character wears scary clothes and a mask as he commits the murders. These movies always have a plot about a group of teenagers getting killed by a murderer one by one. People don’t know the reason why the teenagers get killed until there’s a revelation of the murderer in the end of the movie. During the time the audience is watching, it also anticipates who the murderer is, and it is always incorrect.

In conclusion, the main typical horror elements which are found in horror/suspense movies come from fierce creatures, the supernatural and murderers. People who watch movies in this genre are always scared because of these varieties of horror elements. Filmmakers are constantly trying to find new and interesting horror elements to thrill people in their films. This search can be an interesting reason to watch horror/suspense movies in the future.