A producer of Sandberg's Lights Out once told me that, as part of the development process, they wrote a draft of the screenplay without any horror elements to make sure it worked as a human drama.
What strikes me most, as a gamer, is that the game will be a survival horror game, but one without the typical survival horror elements like zombies or monsters.
For all the talk of "Get Out" being slotted into the genre of a horror comedy, the horror elements are strongly — and, clearly, intentionally — underplayed.
Released in 2007, it combines a fairly straight forward FPS with some interesting survival horror elements.
The film's producers learned nothing from the first film's horror elements.
I wanted to put that on the stage, not to focus on the scary horror elements of it.
It is considered a defining title in the survival horror genre, moving away from B movie horror elements, toward a psychological style of horror emphasizing atmosphere.
Thus, it is usually considered a first-person shooter with survival horror elements.
The game features non-human characters, such as zombies, and certain levels contain survival horror elements.
In the process, Landau played up the horror elements of Kneale's original teleplay.
Silent Hill in particular was praised for moving away from B movie horror elements to the psychological style seen in art house or Japanese horror films, due to the game's emphasis on a disturbing atmosphere rather than visceral horror.
