Horror Genre

  • Horror — surviving, against your fears and death

Horror is about survival. Something wants the characters dead, and the story is whether they can outlast it; the monster is usually the thing they refused to face. It opens the spectrum, the most basic question a story can ask.

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Horror films

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  • Psycho

    1960

  • The Shining

    1980

  • Alien

    1979

  • Obsession

    2026

  • The Thing

    1982

  • Coraline

    2009

  • Come and See

    1985

  • The Exorcist

    1973

  • Train to Busan

    2016

  • Black Swan

    2010

  • Jaws

    1975

  • Rosemary's Baby

    1968

  • Get Out

    2017

  • Colony

    2026

  • I Saw the Devil

    2010

  • The Others

    2001

  • The Conjuring

    2013

  • Lee Cronin's The Mummy

    2026

  • Shaun of the Dead

    2004

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    1920

  • Halloween

    1978

  • Frankenstein

    2025

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