10 BTS Horror Movie Tricks Behind The Scariest Moments

Even some of the scariest horror movies ever made needed to utilize bizarre behind-the-scenes trickery to terrify viewers. The movie industry is rife with absurd tricks that horror filmmakers use to creep out audiences. Some of these ploys are surprisingly obvious, from the infamously ubiquitous jump scare to the use of subliminal imagery first popularized by The Exorcist. However, some methods are a little stranger and lead filmmakers to use unorthodox thinking so that they can shock audiences with scares, gruesome special effects, or eerie atmospheric moments. For example, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho famously used chocolate syrup as a stand-in for blood when fake blood didn’t look dark and scary enough.