Since horror movies became cult, several kinds of techniques, clever scripts and psychological tricks were used to bone-chill the audience and give them the goosebumps. From these mentioned techniques and tricks, which is the the most effective to shake you up?
Subliminal scenes with make-up or costumes in more than just kinky situations, when you know something feels terribly wrong. Scenes that unfathomably play with your "inner cinema".
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Patrick Wilson and Joseph Bishara in Insidious (2010)
Normality, interrupted by an unexpected appearence or occurrence.
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Nick Castle in Halloween (1978)
Nerve-racking music or noises, appearing together with the subliminal optical allusion of the threat.
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Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)
Insane Faces of rage.
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Toni Collette in Hereditary (2018)
Grimaces of fear.
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Tobin Bell in Saw (2004)
The threat of unknown game masters.
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Bonnie Aarons and Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Lurking beings in the shadows.
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Rob Bottin in The Fog (1980)
Dark, murky and creepy atmospheres.
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Joe Bellan in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Weird combinations of hybrids like the bum's head on the body of his dog.
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Christine (1983)
Technical objects that seem to have their own life.
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"American Werewolf In London, An" David Naughton 1981 Universal
Shape-changing scenes of theriantrophic beings.
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Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)
Insane smiles.
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Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, and Matthew Lillard in Scream (1996)
The hide and seek play between two or more deranged characters and their victims.
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Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)
The strange behavior of kids.
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The Shining (1980)
Symbolic blood floods or fountains, showed in slow motion.
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Cary Elwes and Tobin Bell in Saw (2004)
Nightmarish unpredicted bone freezing plot twists.
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Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The fear of the woods.
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Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead II (1987)
Downspirals of doom that sympathetic characters suffer from.
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Nicole de Boer and Maurice Dean Wint in Cube (1997)
The horror of the protagonist(s) to see their comrade-in-arms die, knowing to be the next another time.
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Virginia Madsen in Candyman (1992)
Rotten places, buildings, districts.
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Michael Rooker and Tom Towles in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
The banality of evil beings.
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John Cusack in 1408 (2007)
The unreal feeling of environment that changes from bad to worse and at least worst.
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Ted Clark and Julian Richings in Wrong Turn (2003)
Ugly inbreed masking
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Florence Paterson in It (1990)
Situations that slowly turn bizarre until they feel unbearable.
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John Cleese and Monty Python in Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Well ... witch hunting season is approximately over. ... We'll soon wish you a Merry Christmas. Please stay patient.