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What makes a good horror film, story, etc.?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Playing up the audience's fear of the unknown. No monster or amount of gore can be scarier than that unknown thing that goes bump in the night. The late Alfred Hitchcock could scare the pants off you using this technique.

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