The Sixth Sense_What Are You Afraid Of?

This film has a pretty good ending. There is a plot twist which shows that actually the Malcolm was dead after the housebreaking.

Actually, there are some techniques to evoke the feeling of fear in this film. 

Music is one of the major components. We could imagine that all the horror scenes without frightening music. Music is a step to initiate suspicions of audience. Music gives them a hint that something might happen, but you do not exactly know what you are going to see. Also the fear comes from imagination with something unknown and expected.

For the purpose of scaring people, the pace is important. Frankly, I think the pace is important for evoking any kind of feeling.

Basically, there are 4 steps to scare people. At first, there must have a long period of peaceful scenes. Those peaceful scenes help the audience to stay calm.


Before the horror scene, the camera would bring the audiences to the venue and frightening music possibly will be inserted now or in the next step.









In the step 3, something unusual and anomaly must happen. They could be the occurrences of unusual behaviors, thoughts or people.

In the final step, the horror part will come out. Normally, people will be terriefied in the third or fourth step.

Additionally, the angle and movement of the camera will help to initiate the feeling of fear as well. 

The scene who had a boy with a big wound behind his head is an example. Before the presence of the wounded boy, the camera space out the left side of the screen, in order to be ready for the appearance of the wounded boy. This kind of unusual angles implies that a horror scene is ready to come out.

Using the point-of-view shot would also create a sense that you are actually in the film. Sometimes they would make it a bit shaky to create a sense that there is someone watching the actors.

You would feel that someone is watching, but you do not know who the persons are because they are invisible at that moment. 

At the end, I have a question, would people be frightened anymore if everyone of us has the sixth sense? Or what would be happened if everyone has the "talent".