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Location

In horror film one of the main aspects that make the films scary is the location of where the film is set. To make the location scary, unusual or unknown locations are commonly used. For example the woods, an old haunted house in the middle of nowhere and abandoned buildings. This is to invoke our fear of the unknown and to create an unsettling sense of no hope or help being in such places.

Blood, Death, Gore

There are always scenes including blood, death or gore in every horror film. The whole point of horror film is the element of danger, which commonly results in some characters being killed, and others harmed (mentally, physically). This is a big reason as to why the colour red is used to commonly on horror film posters as it represents danger and blood.

The Threat

In every horror film there must be a threat of some sort. Some films such as The Ring, Hatchet and Chainsaw Massacre use monstrous threats that are of course not threats we’d face in real life, but because they have been created, there is more opportunity to create more scariness in them. Other films like The Night Listener and Silence of The Lambs use a psychological threat, which are people who are so unstable mentally to the point that they become life threatening to others. Events in these films on the other hand are much more likely to happen than monsters coming out of your closet!  The other common threat used in horror film is the paranormal. This is becoming an increasingly more common threat used in horror. I personally think this is because more and more people are becoming open to possibility of paranormal life being a reality.