Halo CE and tonal shifts

Halo: Combat Evolved puts together intense FPS action with an atmospheric story... and right smack in the middle of that campaign is a sequence that strips you of your bravado and dumps you into a crazy horror sequence. Tonal shifts in stories can be effective devices to shock the audience and highlight specific scenes, or even completely bait-and-switch a story into an unexpected direction. Let's look at how Halo and movies like From Dusk Till Dawn and Scream do it.