What makes a scary movie scary – Part 1

Let’s start off with the fact that blood and gore does not qualify as scary or at least not to myself. To me a good scary movie requires tactics that will cause the viewer to be scared. Such as a a suspenseful scene where you don’t know if the victim will escape the villain and you can feel their fear. Another great scare tactic to me is the unexpected when suddenly someone or something pops out of nowhere, it always makes me jump. I also think that a movie can be made scary by music and other various sound effects that leave you to imagine what may happen. I think a scary movie requires a lot more than just blood, guts, and people being tortured. My personal opinion is that some of the scariest movies you see have very little or no blood at all. Some of those movies include Halloween, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Shining and the original The House on Haunted Hill (1958).