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Creating tension, applying pressure, causing pain: A key to writing scary screenplays

by Paul Chitlik - Loyola Marymount University

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TENSION, PRESSURE, PAIN: Those three words used to be the advertising slogan of a popular pain relief medicine. So popular that I can’t remember its name, but that’s beside the point. The same three words apply to a good scary scene in a horror, or any other genre, picture.

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