Stephen King’s Misery - How to scare without violence, blood or darkness

Hi, fans of horror.

Have you ever wondered how to scare the public without any gore or horror? Well here is the answer. A very powerful element is the nature of a character, and what can the character express through his actions.

So I analyzed some scene of Annie Wilkes and Paul Sheldon performed by Kathy Bates and James Caan in the film Misery.

The first scene I analyzed was the one where through a simple conversation Annie lost her mind.  The sinuous music starts playing and with a close up and her performance it creates the terror.

  

The close up is the final element of the terror construction.

The principle of “What you don’t see is what scares you” is used on Annie Wilkes as her negative dark side that sometimes takes possession of her is what scare to most of us.

The second scene is very similar. While Annie narrates one of her memories as a child she loses her mind and yields loudly.  The performance along with the music and the closing up of the shot are the only elements that create the terror.

The close up of Annie.

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