horror

Media

Millie England

Horror- a film that depicts the viewer’s emotions, worst fears, terror of the unknown, disgust and nightmares.

Horror genre is usually a genre that scares the viewers with the use of macabre and also that of the supernatural. However some horrors also overlap with other genres such as fantasy sci-fi and thriller.

Most plots of horror films involve an evil force, event, or personage commonly of supernatural origin into the everyday world. Elements that feature in horror films are often torture, gore, ghosts, demonic forces, supernatural organisms and serial killers.

Horror Sub Genre’s

•Gothic

•Psychological

•Supernatural

•Slasher

•Suspense             

•Thriller

•Teen terror

•Satanic

•Demonic

Horror is most likely to be watched by teenagers or twenty something. Devoted fans of the horror genre are women, the targeted audience of the “rom-com.” Women love horror possibly because of the many horror heroines but also because Horror movies cross gender-boundaries because they deal with the primal emotion, the basic instinct in all human beings—fear. They tap into locked fears, ideas and imagery that humans assiduously try to evade.

There’s something about horror that speaks directly and instinctively to the human animal. Millions of years of evolutionary psychology have ingrained in our minds certain fear triggers – a survival instinct. The Psychoanalytic community, including Sigmund Freud himself posited that horror came from the “Uncanny” – emergence of images and thoughts of the primitive id that were being suppressed by the civilized ego