The Horror Genre

We show you the ins and outs of the Horror FilmGenre. Everything from the history, to how to shoot it, to the unique dark silhouette lighting style. We teach you how to make your own horror film. To learn more great video tips and tricks, download our free report "8 Tips for a Stellar First Video" at http://www.videomaker.com/r/564

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• horror
• how
• to
• botchii
• blood
• gore
• fx
• effects
• indy
• videomaker
• easy
• budget
• affordable

[MrDarknessForever]

You've helped me with my fan film of Friday the 13th. I'll send you a trailer.

[videomaker]

@MrDarknessForever Awesome, please do! We like to post videos by Videomaker fans to our Facebook page (with full credit to you, of course) to help get them a little more exposure. Let us know if it would be cool to do that when you've got it finished.

Best,

The Videomaker Team

[dividebyNERO]

@videomaker Lol. Your video's really helping me with my new film. it's a psychological thriller, sort of like 'Shutter Island'. I'll post the trailer as a response in a few months.

[videomaker]

@dividebyNERO Sounds exciting! Please do let us know when you have a trailer; we'd be interested to see how you use some of these techniques.

Cheers,

The Videomaker Team

[dividebyNERO]

You'd think they could spell 'antagonist' correctly.

[videomaker]

@dividebyNERO Oops! Well, no one's perfect XD

Cheers,

The Videomaker Team

[ultrahandz]

Brilliant advice! Maybe making video tutorials for other genres would be just as awesome.

[Animetalchick]

Great video! I love all your videos and they're really helpful. I'll keep the camera angle tricks in mind.

Also, it might just be me, but in the last clip I thought the first track was a little more scary because it was subtle and suspenseful.

[mrmouth92]

evil dead 2 ftw

[PurpleBoxMovie]

Great informative tutorial - keep up the great work.

[7zethlen]

@freddykrugersbride

Rule 1) Gore doesn't equal scary. Many times, if you plan to make some torture scenes, they require lots of make-up and you have to take lots of safety precautions.

Rule 2) What you don't see is usually scarier, like the shark in Jaws only shows up in the last 30 min. or so.

Rule 3) Throw in some taboo. This will add a feeling of uncertiancy to the viewer and will stay in their mind longer.

a good death, i think, could follow the morale of "An eye for an eye."

[freddykrugersbride]

This summer I'll be shooting a horror movie about a popular girl who after an accident becomes disfigured and because of this is abandoned by her friends and dumped by her boyfriend causing her to snap. How do you suggest the murders should play out? This will be a independent movie with only 3 deaths so I have a low budget but need to have gruesome and scary deaths. Any ideas are welcome, thank you.