Conventions of horror films

Horror films are typically designed to scare the audience as well as captivating and entertaining us. A few of the best places for a horror film would be abandoned houses, graveyards, woods, cabins, basements, etc. Camera shots are very expressive in horror films as they tightly frame characters emotion. Also, they use different sounds such as diegetic, which is things the characters can hear such as footsteps and trees rustling, and non-diegetic, which is things the characters cant here, such as a heartbeat. The target audience for horror films is often 15+, however most of the time they are 18. Reasons for this are sometimes because of swearing, sexual scenes, etc.