Conventional Things About Horror

Horror stories usually involve dreary dark settings, such as grave yards, tombs, old spooky houses, cob-webs, and thunder storms. These setting are suppose to set the mood of fear. There are also superstitious qualities involved such as black cats, ghosts, and jack-o-lanterns. Some horror stories involve the reanimation of death such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and Zombies, but most or perhaps all horror stories have to do with death. Monsters are always a big theme in horror, some creature that is very abnormal looking. Sometimes horror is about serial killers, and bloody scary weapons such as knifes or chain saws. Chase scenes are popular as well as high pitched screams. Some fear in horror comes from sounds such as drips in the sink, moans, creaky doors, and the scraping sound of tree branches. The element of surprise is always there. A popular scenes are when a woman opens the medicine cabinet and closes it and the killer is in the mirror, or someone opens the shower curtain quickly or someone turns around an bumps into a friend instead of the killer. A lot of scary situations happen in the bathroom. Demonic possession and the occult/ witches usually really scare people because the subject matter cannot be seen but it can still hurt you, and you are powerless against it. Children's horror consists more of monsters hiding in closets and living under beds.