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Originally Posted by Ace_O_Spades
Just another example of why North American horror sucks the big one.
It's all about special effects and trying to shock people... There's no atmosphere. Silent Hill had atmosphere on the surface (CG much?) but they really didn't take advantage of it in the way they could.
The acting was awful... The characters weren't developed... The whole beginning was so rushed...
That being said, the whole sequence in the school was the best part of the movie. If the rest of the movie was like that it would have been dope.
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If I agreed any more I think I would spontaneously self-combust.
Too many horror movies today rely completely on CG and shock value. I think directors/writers have forgotten the three elements that make a great scary movie.
1) The unknown; the audience' imagination can make a movie scary.
2) False sense of security. I think the best example of this I've seen is in
Alien ; when the alien was hanging in plain sight, but so obvious that it went unoticed, and in
Signs; when Mel Gibbson looked out the window to see the alien on his roof/when it was following him during his corn crop expedition.
When the audience knows something is about to happen they can brace themselves, or remove themselves from the scene a little. Placing something in the image that you might not see at first, however, draws them into the scene, and allows
them to discover the danger, making it much more frightening.
3) SUBTLE IS BETTER! Most horror films today will flash an image fast with a really loud noise. Sure that can make someone jump; I could do the same thing by shouting suddenly in the middle of a quiet scene. As Ace_O_Spades said, creating an atmosphere is crucial to drawing the viewers in. Its all about the subtle things.