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i guess it is a matter of taste...i just dont think humor is the best way to scare people...and it is very difficult to be funny...atleast if I gonna laught....
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If there's no element of relating to characters on screen, audiences don't identify with them - meaning it's less likely to scare an audience if they're not rooting for someone to get away from whatever menace. 'Nightmare on Elm St' is a perfect example. The first film was scary as hell. All the subsequents weren't. Why ? Too much focus on Freddy cracking lame one liners while cardboard cut-out teenagers fill up the body count quota. Sure it's easier to have some masked maniac chasing people around with a machete and hope that's considered scary enough, but I'd definitely prefer more character to the intended victims if I know I want people to be scared for them. Add some dialogue. Make some jokes. Make a viewer relate. Then scare the hell out of them :D
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