What would you recommend that might inspire me for making horror movie scenes?

In my opinion, the original Night of The Living Dead, in black and white is the most frightening movie ever made. It captures, for me, the feeling of a nightmare.

There is a scene near the end of the movie where we go down stairs and see that a little girl, who was sick, has now died, come back as a zombie and is eating from her mother’s arm. The daughter looks up, with like bbq sauce around her mouth, and it is just WRONG.

Very disturbing. It’s one of my favorites.

the ending of fear 2

Truly shocking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYx-PgQpWtQ

here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJI4UFiNgM

I think the Grudge really scared the crap out of me!
Funny how I can handle The Excorsist, but not the Grudge!
Resident Evil scared the shit out of me while playing the damn game…stupid popping zombies!

Maniac-The nurse stalking scene, the shotgun scene, the ending.
Tourist Trap- The part where he covers the woman’s face with plaster, and the end with all the mannequins laughing and shit. The opening scene too with the bad acting and fucking scary mannequins
Brain dead- the whole movie. One of the greatest movies ever.
Cannibal Holocaust- That raping (I think) and impalement scene. When the crew attacked the natives village and when they get killed.
Phantom of the Opera(1925)- unmasking scene. Fuck posers, this scene is a classic!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre(ORIGINAL)- The dinner scene.
I’ll come back if I can remember more.

The whole Silent Hill 2 (ps2) game was chilling with the sound effects and such!

In the movie The Shining, the part when Johhny (I think was his name) was riding his bike in the hallway and then those twins appear. It was creapy.
But I liked the part when that chick cuts the man with the knife.

this is nice too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TFp71j7UjQ

@Melonking oh man I would so love to have stuck Barney’s head on a pike outside my front door.

Sarah Palin taking the Oath Of Office at the White House

@filmfann I was referring to works of fiction. /me slaps your wrist

@Ame_Evil Let’s hope it stays fiction then.

Go to a purportedly haunted area.

Murder someone and talk about that.

Go to an old folk’s home.

Observe fat people in their natural habitat.

Boots you are evil!!! ~

There’s an old Kids In The Hall sketch where five guys sit around a campfire with beers celebrating the memory of a recently deceased friend. As they talk, it becomes clearer and clearer that they killed him and that’s why he’s deceased. A nice, suspenseful slow burn like that could be fun.

@Tink1113 :-D

@aprilsimnel Thanks for ruining it for us all though D:

@aprilsimnel Kids in the hall is awesome

Pumpkin Killer

The PS 2 game The Suffering 1 & 2 have some great scenes. Also the Silent Hill series of games, and the game Manhunt has some nice scary dark corners. They might also be available onr systems, but l have a PS 2, so that’s what I know.

I plan on using some of those game scenes in my Halloween display this year.

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) scared me so bad, on late-night TV on a little 13” screen, that I sat petrified right through the commercial breaks. And Psycho! (1960) Man. I don’t think any slash-and-spatter movie ever outdid the work of the master.

@Jeruba I completely agree. Suspense is so much more effective than gore. Hitchcock, Alien, Blair Witch…

I definitely agree with @Jeruba . Hitchcock was the absolute master of horror. All of the best horror movies are the suspenseful ones. Gore is great, but suspense is better. The scariest scene in any horror movie is the one one you create in your own mind when you DON’T see the gore. And the #1 piece of advice I would give to anyone making a horror movie is that if all the clues point to one person as the killer, please don’t have that person be the killer. If I already know who the killer is, then I know who will and won’t die, and I’m bored. That really takes all the fun out of horror movies.

sacrifice a jew upon the chariot, or cheack out GWAR

Suspense is key. What you don’t know yet of can’t see drive people wild. Gore is all well and good. No matter what anyone else says, I still have some faith in the Saw series. But what you can’t see or hear, that scares the bejesus outta me. Ghost movies, and mean the good ones with reasonable plot and well done charater development. There aren’t that many left. Look what Paranormal Activity did. The Entity has frightened for a good few years. I REFUSE to finish The Exorcist. I have like 20 minutes of the end I haven’t and will never see. My friend stayed and told me how it ended. I’m good. I also refuse to watch Exorcism of Emily Rose at night. If it’s 3:33 and I’m awake, gonna stay that way. I think I’ve seen to many. :)

Slasher films have had their day, but now I think the ghosties and posessions are coming back. So make some good ones! If I have to recommend one that’s not a horror film, per se, but very good and very suspenseful. Funny Games. Loved it.

Watch horror movies from Thailand. Very scary ;)

If you have a Tumblr, you should go follow Disturbingimages (if I got that wrong, I’m truly sorry D: )

They have a lot of things that could inspire you to make a horror scene.