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⌈ Secret Post #4276 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

its probably because so many people grew up in urban areas. Horror tends, imo, to work best if there's something in it the audience can relate to. We can all watch a horror movie that takes place in the middle of the African savannah but it will be hard for a lot of people to actually relate to it or transpose that on their own life once they leave the theater. I mean, yes, if the characters were well developed and had enough depth that the audience could imprint on them it would be different because the audience could see themselves in the characters - but most of the time Horror movies aren't there to make you feel deeply for the characters. They're there to make you feel scared for the characters, which is different. So if they set the setting in an area that a large part of their audience can go 'oh, I recognize that' it fills in as the familiarity the audience needs to really get involved in the story. Most of us aren't going home to the African savanna after we get out of a movie theater but a lot of us will be going back into urban areas afterward and that personalizes it for us.

It also lets them shorthand a lot as well. You don't have to tell an urban audience why an abandoned gas station with one light flickering to life on the sign at midnight is scary but you might have to point out to a bunch of urban dwellers why the sound of rain in the distance mountains when you're walking down a dry stream bed is.

That said Aliens, Event Horizon, The Abyss, etc. all take place in very foreign settings and still work. But they seem to work harder to make the characters relatable and are mostly sci-fi based.