Jake Walters Assignment 17

The two films  of the horror genre that I have watched and chosen to compare are IT and The Blair Witch Project. Two classic movies of the horror genre but both execute it in their own style and so differently yet both equally terrifying. While the plots of the two movies are drastically different with It being about a murderous clown that terrorizes a city every 23 years and The Blair Witch Project being about a documentary about a supposed witch that lives in the woods. The Blair Witch project is a much more slow burn horror movie relying on the unknown to scare you. Its slowly builds up tension throughout with them getting lost in the woods, then odd occurrences and noises start happening at night, finally leading up to one of the members going missed and found posessed at the end. While in IT it is a lot more jump scare dependent on the cheap jumping at you with loud noises along with the disturbing images. Cant lie, this movie did scare me bad when I saw it in theaters so I'm not saying its not scary just that it all relies on jump scares. Through this, both movies achieve their title of a horror movie just very differently with one being a slow burn and making you scared of the unknown or of what could be happening while the other focuses on a more direct approach of trying to get a scare out of the audience. Both movies are amazing in their regards and deserve a watch.