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  2. Horror film - Wikipedia

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    [31] [32] Defining the Christmas horror genre has been described as challenging, [33] as it has generally been regarded as a sub-genre of the slasher film. [34] [35] Adam Rockoff, in Rue Morgue, noted that the sub-genre sits within a trend of holiday-themed slasher films, alongside films such as My Bloody Valentine (1981) and April Fool's Day ...

  3. History of horror films - Wikipedia

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    Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, noted that the popularity of sites like YouTube in 2006 sparked a taste for amateur media, leading to the production of further films in the found footage horror genre later in the decade with Rec (2007), Diary of the Dead (2007), and Cloverfield (2008) and the particularly financially successful Paranormal Activity ...

  4. Category:Horror genres - Wikipedia

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    Genres of horror fiction, a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten or scare. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror , which are in the realm of speculative fiction .

  5. Horror fiction - Wikipedia

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    Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare. [1] Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon , in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length ... which shocks, or even frightens the ...

  6. Psychological horror - Wikipedia

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    In many cases, and in a similar way as the overlapping genre of psychological thriller, psychological horror may deploy an unreliable narrator or imply that aspects of the story are being perceived inaccurately by a protagonist, thus confusing or unsettling the audience and setting up an ominous or disturbing overarching tone. In other cases ...

  7. The 30 Most Terrifying Horror Movie Characters of All-Time - AOL

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    Ghostface in Scream. Scream is the iconic horror film of the ‘90s, though I Know What You Did Last Summer runs a close second. But this Wes Craven-directed film didn’t revitalize the modern ...

  8. Every Horror Fan Should Know These 15 Famous Scream Queens - AOL

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    But the horror genre wouldn’t be nearly as compelling without the incredible actors bringing everyday people fighting the terrifying slashers, monsters, and ghouls to life. In particular, female ...

  9. Folk horror - Wikipedia

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    The ruined Saint James Church in Bix Bottom, Oxfordshire was a setting for scenes in The Blood on Satan's Claw.. The earliest known use of the term, though describing an artefact rather than a genre, was in John Fowles' 1966 novel The Magus, in which an African figure is described as a folk-horror, a corn-doll bundle of black strips of rag that hung down to the ground in a series of skirted ...