A deep dark forrest is a good location for a horror film, but relies on lots of different aspects to make it work. The ground is uneven in forrests, so, like in ‘The Blair Witch Project’ the camera is better to be handheld. The lighting can also be an issue, it is obviously dark in a forrest and not just at night, lighting is an issue in the day time as well as all the trees block out the light, the film makers will have to use special lighting in the forrest to make the film viewable. Of course because it is outside filmakers will have to rely on the weather as well. We tend not to see that many films set in this location, not because it isn’t scary but because sometimes these issues make it unideal to film. The setting is scary because if you have ever been through a forrest it makes you think back to that, and also it makes you not want to go into one again.

Again like a deep dark forrest a dark cave can be a scary but also hard place to film. We generally think of monsters and other scary creatures coming out from caves so this makes it ideal for a horror film. The lighting is a big issue when filming in a cave but what most films include is a flame to help the lighting. The deep dark cave setting is not only used in horrors but in adventure films as well so as it is not specifically for horror it can be seen as less scary because it is common to the audience.

Haunted Houses are by far the most common setting used in horror films but that doesn’t mean they are less scary. We usually see characters home alone or divided so they are on their own in this setting. This is a good technique to use because next time you are home alone you think back to this setting and it scares you even after watching the film. Haunted houses are a lot more scary and petrifying at night rather than in the day but when used in the day it sometimes gives an extra sense of eeriness. We find in this setting lots of creaking doors, creaking floorboards and floors falling through.

This isn’t so much a setting but more an idea of what kind of weather is used in horrors. Pathetic fallacy is used to determine the mood of the film, when it is stormy with rain and thunder and lightning also with darkness it makes whatever is going on seem a lot more edgy.