As a class we had to watch and take individual notes of the opening of two horror movies. The films we watched were titled 'The ring' and 'Them' which is a french horror film. Throughout the opening of these two films we analysed and gathered a list of conventions that horror films include to make them scary.
Night time
Bad weather (storm/raining)
Large expensive house in the middle of nowhere
False scares to built tension before a death
Bad phones which are either broken or have no signal