Horror And Comedy Both Create A Physical Response

Horror and comedy both create a physical response

Here is more great writing advice from Life, the Universe, and Everything. The theme of the presentation is about how horror and comedy both create a physical response.

Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

Laughing is a social response to screaming.
Movie: Oscar > Stallone comedy.
We can relate to scary because we’ve all had creepy people near us.
Humor and horror can range from low to highbrow. Anything done by the Farley brothers: dumb and dumber, 3 stooges. Focus more on physical or don’t have a moron a dead bird to a blind kid.
We run toward sex and run away from blades, that is how humans have survived.
Highbrow horror: physiological. Exorcist is an example. Most of the fear grows out of the relationship between characters.
Slasher doesn’t survive because teens bang/sex and die.
Low brow: torture porn. Slasher movies: how to kill someone.
Differences between horror and fantasy:
Lighting and longer lens.
Comedy depends on lighting. And it’s far away and shots are taken at a longer leans.
Horror brings us in close and usually dark.
When someone is close you can only see the face. Don’t see body and hands that could cause harm.
Intimate means you don’t know what the other is doing. We surrendering our knowledge of what the other is doing.
In comedy, our character does not see what is coming but the audience sees what is coming.
There is only one necessity of a horror book is that it has to scare me.
Everyone is the hero of their own story.
A person who used to tell dead baby jokes. It was funny until he had his wife lost a child.
Lack of lighting is sensory deprivation.
Scream: made fun of scary movies.
In every great comedy humor movie is a moment of true horror we get to know that character. There must be something that the character needs to be is in threat of losing something important to them.
Horror needs to have a moment of levity.
We go to horror to be uplifted because we survive.
We can’t exist in one without existing in the other.
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