What inspired you?

I chose the genre of horror because it is the genre that ekokes the most emotions from the audience constantly throughout the movie. I specifically enjoyed the Saw movies because of the way they set up the movies where you learn their pasts. The opening is always shocking and sets up the fear for the rest of the movie. In the last Saw movie, it starts with the body hanging from the underpass. This signifies to the police that the games are still going on. This sets up the plot of the police trying to figure out who the game master is and trying to find the people. Another interesting twist Saw movies give the audience is that everyone has a chance to live if they give up something. It reminds me of the Buddhist monks spending days and weeks on these extravagant sand art just to destroy them once finished. It teaches them not to attach emotional value to objects. While they are very different scenarios the underlying principles are similar. The people who are put in the game are not innocent either they have all committed crimes and the game is a twisted way for them to pay for what they did. The movies have many different intertwining plots and things going on. In the end, there is always a twist or something that was not expected to happen. As many horror movies saw is gorry and has death but unlike other cheesy horror movies like the Grudge it isn’t centered about killing people. Where many horror movies go wrong is because with all the death and killing they lose the plot and character development of the movie. Although many horror movies have the best opening out of all the genres. They’re always perfect to set up the movie and usually leave the audience feeling nervous and anxious for the rest of the movie. The opening of the Ring is probably the best opening for a horror movie that I have seen in the movies. When the girl demon thing crawls out of the tv and toward the audience it builds up so much suspense and fear. It structures the entire movie of what happens after each person watches the clip. When the person watches it seven days later they die. They hear the demon girl thing and go crazy than on the seventh day they die. Overall the movie is pretty good not the best though. But the opening so unnerving and unsettling it is a very good horror film opener. Many horror films just try and start off with a jump scare or something to make the audience scare without connecting it to the plot. The Ring did that very well connecting the opener to the entire movie and making it a very important aspect. By doing this it makes people want to see the movie and get drawn into it. The horror genre does a good job of drawing the audience in through the opener. Mainly by invoking emotions on the audience through death and fear.