Hello everyone, I'm back again with another blog post! In todays blog post, I wanna talk about successful script writings that are within the psychological horror subgenre.
Diving right into it, there is the script of the film The Shining. This movie was able to capture the idea of psychological horror by utilizing slow-building tension as the film progressed. When in the beginning of production, the director Stanley Kubrick was working closely with Stephen King to make sure that everything that is made on set is exactly how Stephen pictured it when he wrote the book. Although, Stephen was at the time worried that this adaptation would still not be to his liking since it was going to be produced by someone else. Kubrick has three and on going decades of experience with working on movies such as "Red Alert", "A Space Odyssey", "A Clockwork Orange", etc. This allowed Stephen to give his full trust in Kubrick and let him do the best he could to adapting to The Shining without Stephen having to constantly tell him what parts to do exactly.
Moving on, another very successful script that has become famous over the years is Rosemary's Baby. Made in 1968, the book was written by Roman Polanski who created the book with many elements as to why it became so well known such as the slow rising tension and symbolism. Polanski had first thought of this book when several years before had a thought about how the most suspenseful part of a horror story is when the horror itself happens before, not after the horror. From what I could understand from this, Polanski believed that the idea of a horror story just throwing in the villain or monster in a horror story without any build up to revealing said character would ruin the horror story as whole. So, I think that this why he also added lots of foreshadowing into this book specifically to reflect on that idea he had came up with.
Color Theory
Finally, I wanted to explore what does color theory mean and how does psychological horror have a specific type of color theory. So, I searched up with the simple question of "Color theory for psychological horror" and clicked on the first link. Immediately after skimming through the text, I could tell that the writer of the article would give detailed information on the topic that I wanted to cover. When I read the first half of the article, it tells that in the majority of psychological horror movies, there would most definitely very dark colors used in many scenes with some exceptions like green grass or basic environmental colors. By understanding the reason for this, it give me a clear understanding of why psychological horror films are able to give almost perfect showings of what traditional horror film would portray while having certain elements of its own (in this case color theory). As I kept reading, it is also said that by using colors can give symbolism in many ways. I found this to be very true since in many movies that I have watched in the past have given a somewhat small foreshadowing of what's to come in the movie or have a meaning behind the use of colors or lighting in certain scene.
Citations
https://nofilmschool.com/horror-script-download
https://elliotchan.com/2019/08/24/stephen-king-vs-stanley-kubrick-how-the-shining-went-from-book-to-movie/
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2541--stuck-with-satan-ira-levin-on-the-origins-of-rosemary-s-baby?srsltid=AfmBOoo0B4epGuG_t9i_jdWzRyWZREX4Tt0Jgi2d5jGUdeCl2w84mYHi
https://slowburnhorror.com/2021/09/10/the-meaning-of-color-in-horror/
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