Journal #23

There are many things that contribute to making a story or movie scary. One thing that I think is a major contribution is the music. There are certain types of music that just make things scary. like Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah...That is scary. Also they will play this music and then people or scary objects will just pop up out of no where and scary the bejesus out of you. Also, a lot of scary stories have to do with paranormal things such as ghosts. Things will move without a human or other living things touching them such as a door opening all by itself and it is usually because a spirit or some other creepy thing touched it. Scary movies always consist of a story that just has an eerie vibe such as a new family living in a house that people were murdered in before. In all scary movies things happen to people that does not normally happen to people in everyday life. Such as in Insidious, a guy was a "drifter". During his sleep he will drift away and go into this land that nobody can go to. Eventually they figure out that his son is a drifter too, and he drifts to this land and gets caught by the bad devil guy. In almost all scary movies there is never a happy ending. Like in Insidious the dad you think he is all good and saves his son, but he is actually possessed and ends up killing his wife. It is sad because for once you think it is all going to end up good. I guess at least the boy was saved. I do like scary movies, but it is actually hard to make them actually scary...Insidious was a pretty scary movie, and so was movies like paranormal activity. Paranormal Activity was scary because it actually seemed real. oh! and they also usually have to deal with the devil because he is bad...