Horror Film Openings Research
1. The Ring 2002 - The movie opens when two girls are talking in a dark house one of them tells the other a scary story about a videotape that is apparently cursed and according to her if you watch it then you get a phone call and in seven days you die. They make a joke about this at the star but then sketchy things start to happen like the tv flickers on by itself one of the girls starts acting really scared like she knows something isnt right then without and typa warning she screams. That scene scary because it's just so real, its just two girls chilling telling ghost stories so like its normal but then it builds to something worse, the slow buildup makes you feel uneasy like something bad is going to happen but you dont know when, then, when one of the girls screams you don't even see what happens it just cuts off. That makes it even scarier because your brain basically just fills in the blanks of what happened
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street1984 -The movie opens with a creepy montage of freddy kruger making his razor glove, its dark and the metal scrapes together and you can hear his heavy breathing, then it cuts to a girl running through a creepy steamy boiler room she looks terrified but nothing chases her yet but then freddy pops out of the shadows and he got this creepy grin and he has these long sharp claws and then he swipes at her but she wakes up cause it was only a dream... she looks down and there are actual slashes on her nightgown this is a way more scary opening since it mixes realities, the girl at first thought she was safe waking up, but sh really wasnt. The thing that really makes freddy creepy is that he gets you in your dreams where you cant even escape and everything just feels weird with the music and lighting. From the strart the movie shows you that nowhere is safe.
It Follows 2014 -
The movie opens with a quiet suburban neighborhood at night, a teen runs out of her house crazy scared in her pajamas and heels, she keeps looking back over her shoulder likesomething is chasing her but there is nothing there, her dad calls after her obviously confused she says everythings okay but its obviously not. She runs to the beach sat on the sand, the camera stays in one place watching her while she's crying, leaving in a scared voicemail toher dad that she loves him. The next morning her body is found just twisted and broken. It works because this is just one of those scenes where your just wanting to see what's happening and its not like there is any explanation its just who or what is chasing her and why can't we see it, the movie lets you think before showing you anything
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