Horror may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Genres
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Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare an audience. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defin ...
, a genre of fiction
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Psychological horror
Psychological horror is a genre, subgenre of horror fiction, horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and Mental state, psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience. The subgenre freque ...
, a subgenre of horror fiction
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Christmas horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
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Analog horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
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Erotic horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
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Space horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
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Folk horror
Folk horror is a subgenre of horror film and horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition, folk religion, paganism, Human sacrifice, sa ...
, a subgenre of horror fiction
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Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction
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Korean horror
Korean horror horror film, films have been around since the early years of Cinema of Korea, Korean cinema, however, it was not until the late 1990s that the genre began to experience a renewal. Many of the Korean horror films tend to focus on the s ...
, Korean horror fiction
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Horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with Transgressive art, transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements of the genre include Mo ...
, a film genre
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Art horror, a subgenre of horror film
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Body horror
Body horror, or biological horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction that intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body or of another creature. These violations may manifest through aberrant sex, mutat ...
, a subgenre of horror film
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Comedy horror
Comedy horror (also called horror comedy) is a literary, television and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror has been described as having three types: "black comedy, parody and spoof." Comedy horror can a ...
, a subgenre of horror film
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Erotic horror film, a subgenre of horror film
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Slasher film
A slasher film is a subgenre of horror films involving a killer or a group of killers stalking and murdering a group of people, usually by use of bladed or sharp tools. Although the term "slasher" may occasionally be used informally as a generic ...
, a subgenre of horror film
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Splatter film
A splatter film is a subgenre of horror films that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. These films, usually through the use of special effects, display a fascination with the vulnerability of the human body a ...
, a subgenre of horror film
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Supernatural horror film
Supernatural horror film is a film genre that combines aspects of supernatural film and horror film. Supernatural occurrences in such films often include ghosts and demons, and many supernatural horror films have elements of religion. Common them ...
, a subgenre of horror film
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Psychological horror film, a subgenre of horror film
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Postmodern horror
Postmodern horror is a horror film related to the art and philosophy of postmodernism. Examples of this type of film include George A. Romero's '' Night of the Living Dead'', Tobe Hooper's '' The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'', John Carpenter's ...
, a subgenre of horror film
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Indonesian horror, Indonesian horror film
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Thai horror, Thai horror film
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Horror comics
Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction. In the US market, horror comic books reached a peak in the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, when concern over content and the ...
, comic books focusing on horror
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Horror punk
Horror punk is a music genre that mixes punk rock and 1950s-influenced doo-wop and rockabilly sounds with morbid and violent imagery and lyrics which are often influenced by horror films and science fiction B-movies. The genre was pioneered by t ...
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Horrorcore
Horrorcore (also called shock rap, horror hip hop, horror rap, death hip hop, death rap, or murder rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from ...
, a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror
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Horror game
A horror game is a video game genre centered on horror fiction and typically designed to scare the player. The term may also be used to describe tabletop games with horror fiction elements.
Unlike most other video game genres, which are classif ...
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Survival horror
Survival horror is a Video game genre, subgenre of horror games. Although combat can be part of the gameplay, the player is made to feel less in control than in typical action games through limited ammunition or weapons, health, speed, and visio ...
, a video game subgenre of horror and action-adventure
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Horror podcast
A horror podcast is a podcast that covers fiction, non-fiction, or reviews of the horror genre generally.
History
Horror podcasts are typically created and run by volunteers in their free time. As some podcasts such as '' Archive 81'' and '' ...
, a podcast genre
Films
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''Horror'' (2002 film), an American film by Dante Tomaselli
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''#Horror'', a 2015 American film by Tara Subkoff
*''Horror'', Italian title for the 1963 Italian-Spanish film ''
The Blancheville Monster
''The Blancheville Monster'', released in the UK and Italy as ''Horror'', is a 1963 horror film directed by Alberto de Martino. The film's script by Gianni Grimaldi and Bruno Corbucci is promoted as being based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, ...
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Fictional characters
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Horror (''Garo''), fictional monsters in the tokusatsu series '
Music
Groups and labels
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Ho99o9 (pronounced Horror), an American hip hop group
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The Horrors, an English rock band
Albums and EPs
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''Horror'' (Cannae album), 2003
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''Horror'' (With Blood Comes Cleansing album), 2008
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The Horror'', a 2003 album by RJD2
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''The Horrors'' (EP), 2006 EP by the Horrors
* ''Horror'', a 2019 album by
Exhumed
Other arts, entertainment, and media
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Horror and terror
The distinction between horror and terror is a standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic and horror fiction. ''Horror'' is the feeling of revulsion that usually follows a frightening sight, sound, or otherwise expe ...
, two concepts in Gothic literature and film
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Horror Channel
Legend, formerly Zone Horror and Horror Channel, is a British free-to-air television channel specialising in sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, action and cult series. It is broadcast in the UK and Ireland. The channel is known for its horror movies du ...
, a former name of the British television channel Legend
*"The horror! The horror!", a line uttered by
Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella ''Heart of Darkness'' and its 1979 film adaptation ''Apocalypse Now''
Other uses
* "The horrors", a nickname for
delirium tremens
Delirium tremens (DTs; ) is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol. When it occurs, it is often three days into the withdrawal symptoms and lasts for two to three days. Physical effects may include shaking, sh ...
, or, acute delirium caused by alcohol withdrawal
See also
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Horror vacui (disambiguation)
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