Thank you. Actually I'm dry out of torture scenes for The Box now. How the heck am I going to get one hundred men or so to torture someone. And make him Half dead. I'm going to have to think up really original things. How would I be able to use ice? I mean to hot and it melts. There would be no way you could torture someone that way.
Branding is a little to done before. Anyway his master already kind of branded him....oh wait I have an idea.
lol! Kid don't worry you'll get to read it. I incorporated ice. Cause ice won't hurt unless... *Keeps lips sealed*
That's true. I guess I shouldn't be talking- I do that to my readers outside of the forum all the time!
I would love to have that effect on people with horror, but the problem is people are becoming desensitised to it. The Saw movies had no effect on me whatsoever - I didn't squirm in my seat, nothing. And there's your problem - you are going to have an audience that is completely desensitised to whatever you write. Prey on people's fears. That's what's going to affect your reader the most. I'm not talking snakes and spiders either. Sure, a lot of people freak out when one scuttles past them, but reading is a whole different ball park.
Its tough to write horror which will really bring horror into people. As yet, i haven't read a horror story which scared me. You need to come up with new ideas of violence and gore.
I think the most effective way of actually scaring your readers is to have good characterization. Various torture scenes are only going to be there to try to sicken them, but if there isn't much emotional attachment, I believe you'll run out of ideas long before you can scare a considerable amount of people.
Precisely. It was a film, not writing, but the most shocking movie I have ever seen was shot in the style of the Blair Witch Project (hand held cameras) at the start, and security footage for the final few minutes. It followed the story of two teenage boys planning to go on a shooting rampage of their school, before shooting themselves. That's all very shocking, but what made the big finale of them going into the school and killing their peers so honestly terrifying was the fact during the documentary styled journal entries leading up to the end, we got to know these guys. Sure, they had motive, but you couldn't comprehend these two actually carrying out what they had planned for months on end. We knew them as people - not the monsters at the end.
No offense, but I hated that movie. It was boring and sucked. It was scary at all. The one movie that got me wanting to write horror will be the only movie to scare me. Its called The Thing. That movie freaked me out. I will never watch that movie again, but I want to watch it. And thats the effect on I want on my readers. Something you don't want to read again because it scared you to living pieces, but you want to read it again because it was awesome. I understand about dissenting, but I want to real people back into a whole new era and genre of horror. The only reason people are getting dissented from horror is because everything has been done before. A good example of this is a horror movie that is suppose to be scare called Final Destination and I found it hilarious it was way to campy and everyone has seen roller coaster death before. We need to scare people. And if that means we have to create new things to scare them well I'll do it.
Lol, no it wasn't the Blair Witch Project (that movie was a shocker - not shocking). It was called 'Day Zero' or 'Zero Day'. I forget which one. I've never read a book that scares me, ever. Sure, some have made me cry, but never have I hid under the covers at night because of something I've read. Honestly, I can't get into Stephen King novels - at all. I don't understand why people are scared of them, and I have never read a whole book of his. But then again, I can't find anything that scares me anymore. =/
