Let’s look at the art of making a scary movie scene, from the point of view of the filmmaker. The following contains spoilers for one scene of the new movie Lights Out, although you probably saw it already when we posted the short film two years ago.
It’s another fascinating deep dive into filmmaking from Now You See It, the channel that brought us Which Way Did He Go? Lateral Character Movement in Film.
Interesting analysis, but I think the conclusion was absolutely wrong. Getting laughter or tears is much harder than scaring someone.
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