There are not much easier to terrify than watching a horror film. The genre revolves around fear, terror, shock and discomfort, based on these human emotions to tell a story. Humans are wired for survival and self-preservation, and any good horror creator knows exactly what buttons to manipulate these instincts.

Humans generally find comfort in predictability and simplicity, but the brain is also a natural puzzle solver. Perhaps these reasons are the reason why the thrillers and horror films are so loved, but they are nothing without tension. Whether it is a Jumpscare, psychologically trying subjects or a mystery difficult to solve, each horror and thriller film must be exciting, and be attracted to a false feeling of security only for history to turn is quite effective. A red herring is really the ideal way to build anticipation and achieve these thrills.

Red Harings is a classic film trope

Even apart from horror and its sub-genres, the Red Herring sentence is quite widespread, because it has been used for centuries, but many may not know what it means. Herring is a fish that once was a base dish, and back before the refrigerators existed, preserving it required smoking and salt, which gave the meat a reddish color and an unhappy odor. In addition to eating, the “red” herring has become a metaphor, with an article of 1807 of a journalist criticizing the premature media reports on the defeat of Napoleon, by comparing it to the fox hunting tactics where hunters would use the spicy fish to form their dogs to collect perfumes and to transport them without distraction.

Likewise, others thought that some people would sabotage the hunts by confusing dogs with the smell. There is also a less credible but older story of a rich man leaving a mysterious trunk to his servant after his death in 1672. But instead of a great treasure, he held a lonely herring. The only thing the stories have in common is that the fish used to deceive, the dogs being deceived by the smell and the servant being duped by believing that he would get something nice of his boss.

Naturally, the concept is the same in the world of entertainment. It remains the same today, with a red herring almost exclusively something that seems to be an important detail or index but which is out of words or false. He is supposed to distract and confuse the characters and those who consume history, and this helps to make the great twist more shocking, which is always satisfactory for the public.

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It is widely agreed that the first time that a red herring appeared in literature, it was in the first story of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A scarlet study. In this document, a local detective finds the word “pest” written in blood on a wall on a murder scene and assumes that the killer began to write the name Rachel, but Sherlock informs him that the word rache is German to take revenge.

They went from someone’s search for Rachel to find a German before Sherlock understands that the murderer writes to mislead the investigators. He deceives the detective and Sherlock, keeping the reader hooked a little longer. Agatha Christie was also a master of Red Herrings, which is not surprising since Christie and Doyle are two of the biggest names of the mystery genre. When the cinema has become fashionable, red herds have crossed formats.

A first notable example of a red herring in a film came with the horror classic Psycho. Creator Alfred Hitchcock, also known as Master of Susense, in his adaptation of the novel by Robert Bloch from 1959, presented Marion Crane at the start of the film, leading her as protagonist and making her the focal point of history. But he shocks the audience by killing her suddenly Psycho Down scene now infamous and once controversial. Marion flying money was a red herring, Marion herself was a red herring, and the mother of Norman Bates being the killer was also a red herring. Many consider Psycho The first Slasher film, it is therefore logical that the cunning crossed the sub-genre.

Scream was built on red herring

The first Shout The film was released in 1996 and is now a beloved element of the genre of horror, mixing the traditional format of Slasher with comedy. The story is strongly based on the meta-commentary, making fun of the tropes and shots of the genre. He focuses on Sidney Prescott, with the first film that takes over his mother’s first anniversary, the murder of Maureen Prescott.

The sleeping city of Woodsboro is again shaken when a masked killer begins to stab people, is specifically interested in Sidney, in particular by calling it to taunt it and threatening its life overall, in particular by trying to kill it during an anti-intimate feast massacre. The film is built on red herring, because the identity of Ghostface Slasher is a mystery, and even the murder of Maureen is not as open and closed as it thought.

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The first scene of Shout Is, in itself, a red herring, while it opens with a scene of killing presenting Casey Becker by Drew Barrymore. His involvement in the film was strongly marketed, Barrymore appearing on the poster as the biggest name of Shout casting. But, she is the first layoff on the screen, as she picks up the Ghostface call and loses her game. Immediately after Casey’s death, Sidney’s boyfriend, Billy Loomis, climbs through her window and is a giant red flag throughout the film. He becomes the suspect when he drops a mobile phone after Ghostface continued Sidney in the house, but another murder eliminates him suspicion.

Likewise, Sidney’s father, Neil, disappears shortly after the start of the Woodsboro massacre, and his name is often raised as a suspect, especially given his obvious link with Maureen Prescott, who had an affair at the time of his death. But, in the last act, he revealed that the murder while Billy was in prison and that the disappearance of Neil Prescott was both red herring to distract the police of Billy and her lover, Stu Macheer, being the killers. Each Shout The film has red herds like that, and this is only a small part of what makes the franchise so entertaining.

Final destination borrowed and improved on the trope

The original Final destination Focus around a teenager named Alex Browning just before his school trip to Paris. When he climbs aboard the Airlines flight 180, he suffers from a horrible premonition of the plane which explodes shortly in the journey, killing it as well as everyone on board. Alex panic naturally after having seen the ardent tragedy, and his later explosion and several others launched the flight. It doesn’t take long for Alex’s vision to be proven, while the plane explodes in the air in the seconds after takeoff. He leaves Alex the guilt of intense survivors, puts him on the FBI radar and inadvertently puts each survivor in danger while they begin to abandon like flies in a strange and brutal way, letting Alex rush to understand how to cheat death.

As Shout,, Final destination is also a kind of slasher and is one of the most unconventional films of the genre of horror. Or Cries Niche is a horror comedy, Final destination Slasher is invisible and absolutely unstoppable, introducing death itself as the villain. The killing scenes are just as brutal, if not more, with a significant increase in tension as Final destination Weapon the red herring trope. Instead of false tracks pointing towards the identity of the killer, Final destination Includes small teasers on what will kill the character at the top of the death list. The details of the smallest and apparently harmless franchise can be methods of execution, and the public never really knows how a character will die.

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In the first film, there are simple dead, like a bus coming out of nowhere and splashing the second survivor in the 180 flight, Terry Chaney. But there are then the complex sequences, such as deaths around Terry, including the first survivor, Tod Wagner. His death came the night of commemorative service in his bathroom. The toilets escape, there is a pair of begging scissors to fall, and the socket goes out on a puddle. Tod slides on the water near the toilet, falling into a laundry rope hanging above the bathtub, which rings closely around his neck. He cannot physically have enough lever to loosen it, and he dies of asphyxiation shortly after, with the leak of leakage mysteriously to make death self-inflicted.

Things degenerate with the third survivor, Valerie Lewton, shortly after Terry’s death. Ms. Lewton is the only adult survivor, and the tragedy struck her very hard because she felt responsible as a hood, so when her name moved to the first place in the death list, she was packing her things and preparing to leave Mount Abraham for good. The third brutally memorable Final destination The death sequence begins when it goes to make hot tea, then goes to freezer vodka in a ceramic cup, which cracks and begins to drip the flammable liquid in its house and in its computer.

The computer explodes from the electrical short film, sending a glass sparkle in its throat and triggering a fire that spreads in its kitchen before a knife falls into its chest and kills it. Just like Cries Herrings Rouge, the trope transports to the franchise so that each death sequence is full of it. Even death in the first Final destination: lines The trailer is filled. Hopefully the next film is still carrying the red herring trophy because it really makes the franchise special.

Final destination

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Jeffrey Reddick

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Final destination

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Final destination 5

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Ali Liteter, Tony Todd, Devon Swe, Old William Scott