Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively centre on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsion's, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality.
The genre of horror can be broken down into many different sub genres, these are:
B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Costume Horror
Creature Features
Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
Horror Comedy
Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
Terror
Vampires
Witchcraft
Wolves, Werewolves
Zombies
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