Horror movies are scary. Isn't the director scared when he shoots them?

Are actors who make horror movies afraid of themselves? Generally speaking, there must be some psychological pressure when shooting a horror film. But compared with the audience, the actors are much more relaxed, and the directors are not so afraid, because what they see is different from what we see on the screen. Many times it's good not to laugh, let alone be afraid.

Some scenes are terrible to us, but the actors are not like this when shooting, because there are many producers around, and there is no horrible music to create an atmosphere when shooting, and the lighting effect is not what we see. We just need them to make some frightened expressions or actions, so that the actors in this scene will not be afraid. But the shooting of some horror scenes is horrible. For example, in the new movie "Door", there is a place where the hero is in the cemetery. Originally, that place was horrible, and it was taken at night, which required the protagonist to go far away. Later, in an interview, he said that he was scared at that time, so the performances were all his real appearance, which was really scary. For the director, there are many staff and musical instruments around him, and the scene will not be so horrible.

Why do audiences like watching horror movies? Just to enjoy the last moment of relief? No way. In the fear of death, in the complete loss of rational control, there must be irreparable temptation; It is as deeply rooted in instinct as lust, which is unreasonable. Maybe there has never been a real horror movie. No matter how many people died, the most damned hero, or the hero we want to die most, always escaped. The terror was dispelled, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief and continued to live well. ? Horror film? It is a genre film, which usually runs through the whole film with scary plots, scary occasions and scary music. Ghosts, monsters and abnormal demons are often the main targets to stimulate the audience and cause a sense of terror. Horror film is actually the style closest to the artistic characteristics of film. Because movies need to create suspense, only suspense can make the audience have strong expectations. Horror movies are popular all over the world, and most of them are fairy tales or based on real life. Horror films in 1930s all had serious themes and philosophical thinking, such as dr. jekyll and mr. hyde in the United States, Singing at Midnight in China and Haunted House No.13 in the 1940s.

The type of horror film development is no longer to attract the audience's attention with particularly horrible plots. Instead, direct plasma and blood are used to shock the audience's sight and achieve the feeling of carefree killing and transformation. To a large extent, the meaning of horror has shifted to thrillers.

In fact, it is not the patent of horror movies to make people feel scared and panic. In many other types of movies, there will also be many passages that make the adrenal gland surge and the breathing become rapid. A film critic used the words "deep sadness and fear" when talking about the scene of chopping fingers in piano class. This is probably because the meaning of the word "terror" itself is too vague, and it seems that all negative emotions can be related to it. What is terror? What is its core meaning, if any? How can we arouse people's fears?