Comedy and horror map directly to the emotions of mirth and fear. Storytelling is about bringing emotions to the surface, everything else is supplemental. So, comedy and horror give young filmmakers very clear emotional targets.
Fear and laughter are the most common reactions to surprising and eventful situations. When you get jumpscared by a friend, when you're riding a rollercoaster, break the law in a small way or do something you've never done before, you get a weird mix of those emotions that makes you feel alive. Directors like Hitchcock, Lynch, Kubrick, Lanthimos, Tarantino, Aster, Raimi, Östlund or Gilliam often mix these emotions in surprising ways, which makes their movies so entertaining and unpredictable.
I think random RU-vid video creators should tell random people how they should live their lives. I stopped watching this video after the intro. If the title was worded differently, I'd consider giving it a chance. It's like the saying goes: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." Do whatever you want and make whatever you want. Plenty of excellent filmmakers have made excellent dramas for their first films. If you're talented, you'll find a way. And you may fail at your first attempt, or second, or third, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try what you wanna do.
@NE-lu7tn Boy! You're just the coolest guy in the room! So cool you hipped us to your wisdom, so smart you judged a book by its cover! Wow. I wish I was as cool and smart as you.
@Stratmanable For someone mocking someone's intelligence, you should really question your own first. I didn't judge a book by its cover. I clearly stated that I turned it off after the intro. And considering that you don't know who I am and know absolutely nothing about me, it would be wise for you not to throw insults. Unlike most people watching this video and/or posting in the comments (and/or potentially making this video), I actually have 30+ film credits, including one of the biggest TV shows of this century, and one of the highest-grossing movies of the year in 2022. So feel free to choose insults and sarcasm, but considering that you don't even know who you're insulting, maybe you should try to be intelligent and read the comment at face value, coming from someone who actually makes a good living in the industry.
I am just a local stage director of radio theatre productions. But I started out directing horror, mystery, comedy, and adventure, in that order. It wasnt until my 6th show that I worked up to drama ("Little Women"). This makes total sense to me!
Even the director of Lights Out started with a short horror film. He has a RU-vid channel called Ponysmasher. He explains in depth how he started from a low budget and moved upto directing Shazam.
I’m on my second draft on a novel and haven’t been enjoying myself as much as when I started. I’m gonna take this advice and see if the fun comes back!
A lot of great ideas here but I personally feel like upbeat music during horrific scenes takes the edge off and makes it more watchable, not more terrifying. Same thing happens in some of Rob Zombie's movies
One bit that I feel was overlooked here was the audience and marketing aspect/perspective. The deep introspective "I don't know what to feel" stories may be great oscar fodder. But. They are really hard to sell, to market and without word of mouth, you get audiences who very likely do not jive with the intent of the film. With horror and comedy, you have much, much simpler expectations to meet. Distributors know how to market them and audiences let their guards down because they know why to chose your film over the other options. And like with hypnosis, a willing participant is so much more easy to give suggestions to.
Without even watching the video I know it's because Dramas are more in depth and and require more cohesive, detailed writing which simply isn't as crucial in comedy or horror. Comedies and horror can be absurd and senseless where it's expected and accepted by most.
If someone makes a student film that isn’t a chamber drama about them whining over a girlfriend in their dorm room, they’re pretty much automatically a dove amongst the crows.
Hey I love that you used tarantino's and jordan peeles way of Comedy/Horror. But I think the GTA series pushes it a step forward with there uses of C/H. I think you should check that out.
Do you think Skinamarink counts as transcendental horror? I think it might. I saw it, it felt slow, yet the atmosphere and anticipation was anxiety inducing. We, the audience don't even see the top half of the characters' bodies for the first half of the film. A lot of low to the ground shots. It was a really good, spooky film in my opinion.
Very true how close horror and comedy are linked cause I honestly found the gore added to Home Alone to make it actually funny enough for me to laugh at where as the actual version wouldn’t. I like to call it splatstick comedy. Like stuff in Dead Alive and the goofier Evil Dead installments, or as in with the example used in this video, Tarantino’s gory but funny films.
Although I think you have a lot of good points about the parallels of horror and comedy, its an interesting comparison that I don't see many people cover, some horror can use dark humor for a tonal dissonance that really works well. However I think your Thesis is... flawed and clickbaity. I will agree that many new film makers shoot too high, they try to create their magnum opus in their first year and this is disastrous for them. now, where I disagree is that genre inherently will change this, Yes making B-movies(which usually happen to be horror or comedy) is a great way to start your career, but both these genres can be as over ambitious as a drama, making people laugh can be hard, making people scared can be really hard. Its possible on a small budget and little experience(like a great example you shortly showed, I actually think evil dead 2 is Raimis best movie. and that was one of his earliest) but so many people go into making a horror movie trying to be John Carpenter.
How would a horror movie typically have a cheaper budget than drama though? Drama essentially requires nothing, i think all your further points are true and very inneresting though, just genuinely wondering why comedy/horror is looked at as a "lower bar" than drama montetarily or qualitatively?
Horror can work with a limited cast, claustrophobic or cheap locations and mediocre actors as long as its concept and pacing is good. They're also pretty much guaranteed to make money with a lower budget. When you limit locations and cast in a drama, it might feel more like a stage play than a movie, which can still work wonderfully (12 Angry Men, Who's Afraid of Wirginia Woolf?), but it's not as versatile, you need to rely on exceptional actors and it can easily flop even with a low budget.
Make the kind of film 📽️ you think you should make. I can't tell you how many cliche horror films people I know have made, and a few i worked on, that just blend in with the crowd
VFX were done by Corridor and Bunni Walker RU-vid channels. They did an amazing job indeed! Sharing the links if you wanna check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZgLqxSPIhR0.html www.youtube.com/@bunniwalker
Actually I was wondering that, his voice noticably glitches out for a portion of the video and over all his meter sound like that of a modern voice cloning software
yep, Thesis(Filmmakers Should Start with Comedy and Horror), Body1(horror and comedy are similar), Body 2(both can be done on a low budget), Conclusion(????)
I'm currently working on a comedy film. (which will be animated) But it will not be a musical, everyone wants to do a musical now so I want to bring back offensive and satire comedy because those are my favorite types of comedy genres. People are becoming soft and unoriginal, so that's why I want to be able to entertain others and simply just entertain myself. It's like people haven't graduated from the language arts elective when they were in school and they don't know how to write anything because they want to include a bunch of woke lunatics and bring up politics and spread there vegan propaganda crap everywhere when that shouldn't be the main goal in making films! (or they didn't pay attention) I like to mix comedy and drama but I lean more towards comedy, while also making something sad seem funny but not in an offensive way. It's fine to mix genres but it must be done right. Modern cinema bores me, I no longer find modern movies entertaining anymore. That's why I want to write something that can satisfy and entertain the audience (and including myself as well) so that people can just laugh and learn a lesson from the film. Nobody has the motivation and they don't feel the passion which is lacking in HollyWeird.
Japan does horror better and they do show the monsters. In contrast, Hollywood scripts are often too weak and rely on keeping the monsters hidden to create suspense and horror but this isn't a hard-and-fast rule.
Disagree. Ringu only shows Sadako in the last 5 minutes. As much as I love the early 2000's J-horror, it was a short-lived trend misunderstood and destroyed by the same people who created it. It took Japan just a few years to make terrible spin-offs of The Ring and Ju-On complete with anime-style fist fights.
