Horror Movie Genre - A Deconstruction

"I've always thought that there are great similarities between directing horror and directing comedy. With both, you're building up tension and curiosity. The audience is asking, 'what possibly could the punchline be here?' It's the exploitation of tension and that's what horror is all about. You've got to create a situation that's unbearably tense and the audience knows that something's going to happen. That the guy in the black is suddenly going to leap …

…r anyone interested in horror films in the fact that it has been copied so many times. Some may curse Halloween for what followed with the blatant rip-off that was the Friday the 13th series. But no one can doubt that is one hell of a well-thought-out film. It manipulated not only the characters but the audience also. It has a never-ending sense of morbidity and the stalkings have an almost infinite amount of suspense.