Example of a Horror movie opening

Here is a key example of a horror movie opening. It comes from the iconic if slightly tongue-in-cheek classic, Scream, and contains some of the most important conventions of a horror film, such as darkness, an innocent victim, a killer, and murder. I find the hide-and-seek chase scene in this clip particularly inspiring, as it is incredibly simple but brilliant at building tension for the final scare, which is why my group and I discussed the idea of having a chase scene in our own horror clip (see Initial idea for Horror clip).