**English** | [δΈ­ζ–‡](../zh/horror-suspense.md) [← All prompt templates](../../../README.md#-prompt-templates-by-category) Β· [Template index](./README.md) # 🎭 Horror and suspense > Every shot carries its own timecode and shows one visible change on a body. The dread comes from the chain β€” a look, veins, a bite, the next person β€” and the ending seals a door without settling anything.
The Zombie Express, Cut to the Tenth of a Second Zombie Outbreak on a Train Post-Apocalyptic Korean Rooftop Horror Candlelit Exorcism Ritual in a Traditional Korean House
## Copy this Hit the copy button on the block, replace everything in [square brackets] with your own details, and send it to any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) together with your reference images. It will write a Seedance-ready prompt for you that follows this template. ````text I want a horror-suspense clip. [The setting is an underground car park late at night, a young woman looking for her car.] [The first to turn is the security guard; I am sending you his reference photo.] Using the prompt template below, rewrite it into one ready-to-use Seedance video prompt for me: #### Horror and suspense Every shot carries its own timecode and shows one visible change on a body. The dread comes from the chain β€” a look, veins, a bite, the next person β€” and the ending seals a door without settling anything. **Use when:** Outbreak and possession clips, corridor chases, ritual scenes β€” anything where the fear comes from a body changing on a clock. **Guidance:** - Give every shot a timecode and exactly one change. The sleeper-train case fits 26 shots into 30 seconds, where Shot 2 is only `dark veins emerging beneath the skin` and Shot 3 is only `Her eyes cloud milky white`. - Lock the face in the very first shot, before anything happens. The sleeper train opens with `<<>>, face and outfit matching reference`; the zombie-train case uses `Character A, matching reference face/outfit`; the ritual case uses `Keep the Word character's face and outfit consistent throughout`. - Pass the infection on and compress the second round. In the zombie-train case the first person takes twelve seconds from symptom to finished turn; the man he bites is done in seven, across Shots 13 to 16. - Land the scare on somebody else's reaction. The sleeper train cuts to `A sleeping passenger stirs as another blood drop lands on his forehead`, and the rooftop case has `friends fall silent, chairs scrape back`. - Refuse to resolve it. The sleeper train ends on the train running through the night with chaos in the windows; the Korean ritual case ends on `One intact talisman emits faint dark smoke`. **Examples:** [#1](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-shot-1-0-0-1-2s-image-1-face-and-outfit-matching-reference-lying-in-b6d9ef0e370e) [#2](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-3b1796c66ab4) [#3](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-b529ffbdfd9a) [#4](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-30-sec-cinematic-korean-folk-horror-ritual-78323fedb479) **Structure:** 1. Header: runtime, the genre named, and the reference lock on whoever turns first 2. Shot 1 with a timecode: patient zero in an ordinary seat or bunk, already carrying one symptom 3. Escalation shots, each adding exactly one visible change: veins, milky eyes, a stiff head tilt 4. The trigger shot: the attack itself, written as slow motion with impact 5. Transmission: the bitten person runs the same escalation on a shorter clock 6. Crowd panic and the barricade: the door, the luggage, hands clawing through glass 7. Closing shot: a sealed door still shuddering, or a wide exterior, with nothing resolved **Pitfalls:** - Cramming a whole transformation into one shot. Split it across four or five: eyes cloud, veins branch, body convulses, inhuman scream, head snaps forward. - Buying the horror with gore volume. The hardest beats in the top cases are a single blood drop landing on a forehead, held as extreme close-up in slow motion. - Letting the middle collapse into a brawl where nobody can tell who bit whom. Even the chaos shots name a subject and a target, like `The infected turns and lunges at nearby passengers`. - Putting the consistency lock at the end with the style notes. By then the face has already drifted; the lock belongs in Shot 1, and the infected version still has to be the same face. ```` ## Three steps | Step | What to do | | --- | --- | | 1 | Copy the whole block above and replace the [bracketed] parts with your product, person or scene. Attach reference images if you can. | | 2 | Send it to any AI chat and get back a Seedance prompt written to this structure. | | 3 | Paste that prompt into Seedance (Dreamina / Jimeng) and generate. If the result is off, check the pitfalls first, then adjust and re-run. | ## Cases in this category (23 filed, by heat) | Preview | Case | Version | Heat | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Parasite Infection Outbreak in a Research Lab | [Parasite Infection Outbreak in a Research Lab](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-cinematic-sci-fi-horror-action-short-film-set-in-a-research-laboratory-opens-w-9661cd7bd95d) | 2.5 | 96 | | Security Guard and Survivors in a Mall Zombie Outbreak | [Security Guard and Survivors in a Mall Zombie Outbreak](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-create-a-photorealistic-live-action-horror-short-film-set-inside-a-busy-modern-52b17b0d18ff) | 2.5 | 95 | | Infected Attack on a Japanese Highway Bus | [Infected Attack on a Japanese Highway Bus](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-cinematic-horror-action-short-film-set-aboard-a-japanese-highway-bus-during-the-5bc85c0e13d8) | 2.5 | 93 | | Zombie Attack in a Japanese Classroom | [Zombie Attack in a Japanese Classroom](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-create-a-short-ultra-realistic-japanese-high-school-horror-action-sequence-fea-5cf4a965e81a) | 2.5 | 83 | | The Zombie Express, Cut to the Tenth of a Second | [The Zombie Express, Cut to the Tenth of a Second](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-shot-1-0-0-1-2s-image-1-face-and-outfit-matching-reference-lying-in-b6d9ef0e370e) | 2.5 | 82 | | Infection Terror Aboard a Night Sleeper Train | [Infection Terror Aboard a Night Sleeper Train](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-preserve-the-exact-face-hairstyle-golden-cream-dress-tattoos-necklace-and-8ff953bfc56e) | 2.5 | 78 | | Parasite Outbreak in a High-Security Laboratory | [Parasite Outbreak in a High-Security Laboratory](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-create-a-photorealistic-zombie-horror-sequence-inside-a-high-security-research-11e5b4743459) | 2.5 | 74 | | Zombie Outbreak on a Train | [Zombie Outbreak on a Train](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-3b1796c66ab4) | 2.5 | 73 | | Post-Apocalyptic Korean Rooftop Horror | [Post-Apocalyptic Korean Rooftop Horror](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-b529ffbdfd9a) | 2.0 | 72 | | Zombie Infection Outbreak in a Train Carriage | [Zombie Infection Outbreak in a Train Carriage](https://goodcase.ai/cases/doctorwasif-seedance-ai-117496b404a6) | 2.5 | 68 | | Candlelit Exorcism Ritual in a Traditional Korean House | [Candlelit Exorcism Ritual in a Traditional Korean House](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-30-sec-cinematic-korean-folk-horror-ritual-78323fedb479) | 2.5 | 66 | | Escape from the Infected at a Japanese High School | [Escape from the Infected at a Japanese High School](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-create-an-ultra-realistic-japanese-high-school-horror-action-sequence-following-b14f705bc895) | 2.5 | 65 | The other 11 are in the [full gallery](../../gallery.md) and on [goodcase.ai](https://goodcase.ai/cases?filter=video&q=seedance&utm_source=awesome-seedance). --- [← Previous: Twist-ending comedy skit](./meme-comedy.md) Β· [Next: Gameplay capture with HUD and stream overlay β†’](./game-ui-livestream.md)