Not exact matches
Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a
psychological drama, rather
than in a
scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.
Silent Hill 2 succeeds in creating an atmosphere of pure terror by focusing more on the
psychological and thematic elements of horror rather
than simply battling against big
scary monsters.
The research of Paul Slovic and Baruch Fischhoff and others has identified several
psychological characteristics that make risks feel more or less
scary, several of which explain, more
than cultural cognition, why people can believe this immense threat looms, yet still not be all that concerned.