Horror research blog

Horror 

horror is an genre of film or in the screen play which is meant to scare the audience with fear of the situation that's going on. Having a sense of dread of what might happend next which would provoke with the unknown mystery. Horror would typically take place during the night, why? it provokes fear since the characters are surrounded by darkness which limits the view from far away, making you feel like you're not alone and someone might be with you. Location and surroundings are important especially on a horror film, you want to find an area like aboundand buildings or a forest because of the isolation, atmosphere, and the impact of it. Depending on how run down the building is could make the horror more intense.

Sound in horror helps build up suspence of the situation of what's going on in a scene. It could help build up a scare effect when the moment seems right for a scare! adding in some eerie sounds could be great for putting something doesn't sound right or something frightful about to happend. As for example when you hide behind a door and wait for your victim to pass by, and you jump and yell out "Boo!", It'll most likely be the sound and appearance that scared the victim off frightfully.

When They Cry (2006)

An example of horror is the series "When they cry" (also known as Higurashi), is a Japanese anime that's on the subject of mystery and horror events that take place near Hinamizawa (rural village) where dark and errie that occurs. When keiichi first arrives at the village, he starts to be friends with a groups of local girls but as Keiichi stays in the village longer he soons finds out the violent and mistery death that occur on the town's Watanagashi Festival. The Watanagashi Festival is a yearly event that occurs when the people in the village celebrate by eating food, playing carnival game, and put cotton balls in the river as they float away which would symbolize to carry away the bad spirits and misfortune. There's rumores that the curse might be by Oyashiro Sama, who which the people in the village refer to her as Rika because of her family history, but shes able to talk to the god Oyashiro Sama. She's granted the ability to loop back in time, trying to find a timeline where she and her other friends doesn't get murdered and struggles to look for one. 

The audience for the show is usually age ranged from 15 years old to 30 years old because of the setting, the main characters, and how the style of the story goes. it's a horror thriller series that's problem solving and brings suspence. Using cute characters in a horror setting is like a mix of dark and light that happens throught series. Most of the people who watch anime are mostly people in that age range because it's a type of cartoon. The location of the place is isloated from the world oustide which could feel like a trap and having no escape to leave it once you're their. The amount of times she has to loop over and over again just to find the perfect life.