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What is Horror? Horror film is a film genre that seek out to stimulate a negative expressive response from spectators by frolicking on their terrors. often deal with audiences' doubts, dismays and fright of the unfamiliar. Characters are located in places where they are unable to get help quickly. For example the woods, mansions in the middle of nowhere and summer camps. Power cut and phone lines cutting often foreshadow the dangers approaching.

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What is Horror?Horror film is a film genre that seek out to stimulate a negative expressive

response from spectators by frolicking on their terrors.often deal with audiences' doubts, dismays and fright of the unfamiliar. Characters are located in places where they are unable to get help quickly. For

example the woods, mansions in the middle of nowhere and summer camps.Power cut and phone lines cutting often foreshadow the dangers approaching.

Horror sub genresi. Psychological thrillerii. Psychological horroriii. comedy horror iv. Slasherv. Splatter vi. 6.Natural horror

Psychological thriller• a suspenseful story which highlights the abnormal mental states of

its characters.• characters often fight against their own thoughts.• Characters attempt to define who they are, what life's purpose is

and who they are. • Character may be vulnerable and endangered with death, be

enforced to deal with the deaths of others.• endorse strong exhilaration, suspense and a great level of

expectancy.

Psychological horror o Depends on the character's fears and irregular mindfulness to terrify viewers

o Psychological horror targets to make uneasiness by revealing common or widespread psychological and emotional helplessness and fright.

o It is used to create the illusion that the happenings in the film could come about with the audience.

o Affected characters tend to have a normal and ordinary lives which is frightening as it is suggesting there is a possibility it could happen in real life.

Comedy-horror Comedy-Horror films intends to alert the audience, but also

deliver amusing escape that let the spectators laugh at their fright.

associations comedy with horror movie themes/subjects. often use sarcasm on horror stereotypes as its main focus of

hilarity or take a story in a dissimilar viewpoint. Unforeseen circumstances- different characters acting

unpredictably to horror events create comical circumstances.

Slasher horror Slasher horror makes a different plot that includes a

psychopathic killer that pursues and murders its victims through ruthless methods, frequently with sharp weapons such as a blade or chopper.

Killers are often male and masked Killer is stereotyped to have gone through a trauma or

injustice in life which leads them into stalking and butchering their victims .

Killer also comes back in multiple sequels in order to get revenge and forward their anger to more victims.

Action Horror Captivates the audience through the

helplessness of the human body and the explicit interpretations of bloodshed and vivid viciousness.

The incentive for fear in a splatter film comes from bodily annihilation and the discomfort accompanying it.

Natural Horror Uses organisms, which may

be modified or unexpectedly precarious for their sorts, act as the antagonist of their films.

features wildlife running normally in the form of animals or plants that outbreak kill humans.