Are you a fan of horror films? Then tell me. What kind of horror, and what kind of horror movie techniques scare you the most?

For me, it was always two things: implied violence, and uncanny valley...until nobody took these terms seriously because, the Internet.

So to celebrate these 'boring' terms and reignite their fire, I decided to talk about the different ways you can implement these techniques in a film with some of my favourite examples.

Apologies, as the video got the spoiler warning sign edited out for some reason, and I will put it in the comment section, but honestly, I don't think they ruin the film experience at all (except maybe Sleepaway Camp but...seriously, the film is over 40 years old at this point.) so do not worry. I definitely did not spoil The Vanishing because that's one heck of a gem. Same with Red Rooms. It's a cool film.

I don't know why I'm writing in this description section like I'm writing a diary, but it's fun. I don't know why. A bit of change to keep things fresh, why not.

So while we're here, of course, if you're watching the video yelling at the screen about how I missed this awesome subgenre, that category of implied violence, or these better examples of whatever...? Yeh. Watch again. Except maybe cosmic horror. I could've probably listed that one separately.

Lastly, I was surprised how many of you actually read the description (genuinely), so if you've reached this point, please comment anything with 'spikimama' and I will do a silent nod of approval in front of my monitor. Tears falling down my cheeks.

Okay bye.

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Timestamp
0:00 Introduction
0:51 Horror Exercise
2:19 Uncanny Valley
3:44 Implied Violence
4:17 Verbal Based
4:58 Context Based
5:19 Sound Based
6:18 Green Room
7:53 Red Rooms
8:30 Explicit Violence
8:57 Park Chan-wook
9:41 Thank You

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