Content

• Steps
• Part 1 of 3: Making Horror Ordinary
• Part 2 of 3: Turning a Horror Movie into a Fun Adventure
• Part 3 of 3: Overcoming with Jokes

Scary movies can leave vivid images in your imagination days, weeks, or even months after watching. To forget about a scary movie, you need to distract yourself and move from fear to mundane or even fun.

Steps

Part 1 of 3: Making Horror Ordinary

1. 1 Try to think of creepy images as "this is just a movie." This will help balance what you see with the real fact that it is all fiction, created with props and actors who spoke lines. This section has some tips on how to treat a movie like “just another filmmaker's day”!
2. 2 Check out the performers. Look for pictures of them from everyday life (no crazy costumes).
3. 3 Find interviews with actors. Look for interviews with the lead actor or one of the villains.
4. 4 Find the movie on IMDB.com, go to the scary character's page and read his biography. As a rule, these are not very famous actors, since during the entire role you have to wear a mask and make sounds. This means that on their account - small roles in other films and TV series. The serial killer stops being creepy when you find out that his previous role was that of a cashier in a low-budget comedy.
5. 5 Look for films of different genres with the same actors. Most actresses and actors use roles in horror films as a step towards real acting in comedies and dramas. Open IMDB.com, find the movie you watched, click on the names of the actors who played the creepy characters. Find frivolous films with their participation and rent them. So, Adam from the films "Saw" and "Saw-3", starred in the romantic comedy The Referees.
6. 6 Find out how the movie was filmed. Type in the search engine "how was (film name) filmed" and you will find a short video with a short tour of the set, led by one of the main characters.
7. 7 Check out how filmmakers made makeup and costumes. There is even a video of the actors' make-up process.
8. 8 Look for interesting facts. Little known movie details are usually very interesting. For example, did you know that Starbucks declined to be featured in Dawn of the Dead? Use these little things to treat creepy scenes as little things in life.
9. 9 Check out negative reviews on Rottentomatoes.com, the site where most of the reviews are negative. People open this site to smash the movie they watched. Some of these reviews make fun of the films in a very witty way, which can help to get rid of the impression produced by the viewing.
10. 10 Watch the awards ceremony. If the film has won any awards, watch the actors win awards and give speeches, it's like interviews, and seeing them with tears of happiness in their eyes is a great way to get to know them as human beings.

Part 2 of 3: Turning a Horror Movie into a Fun Adventure

1. 1 Look for the blockheads in the movie. Look for bloopers on IMDB. For example, in The Hills Have Eyes, at the beginning, after the credits, during a long shot from the crane towards the gas station, the film crew is reflected in the window of a green car. To find bloopers in a movie, search IMDb.com, click the search results, scroll down the crew list to the "Goofs" section. Click "More". Each film has a bunch of them, and this puts the film in a comic light. For more impact, watch the movie again and look for mistakes. If you don't want to watch the entire movie, open YouTube, Google video, Metacafe and search for "[movie name] bloopers]".
2. 2 Check out the failed takes. Many films come out with a cut of unsuccessful takes, in which the actors spoil the most eerie scenes with their laughter. For example, in the cut of the spoiled takes of Silence of the Lambs, the actors laugh, dance and confuse lines. Just search Google for these videos.
3. 3 At the bottom of the IMDB.com movie page, look for mentions in other movies. Many horror films refer to funny stories, for example, in the movie One Missed Call, a girl tells someone the plot of the drama Beloved.
4. 4 Check out the parodies. See the Connections section of IMDB.com for a list of movie references in comedies and parodies. Apart from the four Scary Movie parts, there were many horror parodies on Saturday Night Live. Look in the Movie Connections section; Referenced In / Spoofed In. Also search YouTube for fan-made parodies, they are usually very funny.
5. 5 Look for funny quotes. Open the quotes tab on the movie's page at IMDB.com. Many scary movies have hilarious lines. For example, in the movie One Missed Call, Beth Raymonds asks, "How did it go?" Lynn Cole replies: "It sucks, this is a funeral. In my life, I will no longer go to a party where someone is cremated."

Part 3 of 3: Overcoming with Jokes

1. 1 Re-watch the movie in broad daylight with cheerful friends. Now that you know what will happen in the next scene, you can make fun of the plot throughout the movie. The more ridiculous the better.
2. 2 Watch a comedy right after a horror movie. This will help you forget creepy scenes and replace them with fun ones. Just choose a really funny comedy that can outweigh the horror you just watched. This will help you relax and sleep well.
   • Better not to watch black comedies right after a horror movie.
3. 3 Forget the movie, it's just the frame of mind. It's not easy, but try it anyway. You can get rid of fictional blood-curdling images after repeated attempts, so don't stop trying.