Table of Contents
512 relations: A Chinese Ghost Story, A Christmas Carol, A Devilish Homicide, A Film by Aravind, A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise), A Tale of Two Sisters, A Touch of Zen, Abel Salazar (actor), Academy Award for Best Picture, Afterlife, Ahn Byeong-ki, Albert Goodwin (artist), Alejandro Amenábar, Alexandre Aja, Alfred Hitchcock, Alien (film), Alien (franchise), Alone in the Dark (2005 film), Amando de Ossorio, American International Pictures, Anatomy (film), Animal rights movement, Animism, Ann Hui, Anne Rice, Ant Timpson, Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel), Antibodies (film), Anticonformity (psychology), Antonio Margheriti, Antony I. Ginnane, Anxiety, Ape (1976 film), Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, April Fool's Day (1986 film), Armageddon, Art horror, Arundhati (2009 film), Atonality, Australian Film Commission, Auteur, Autonomous University of Madrid, Álex de la Iglesia, Bad Taste, Ben (film), Bhoot (film), Black Christmas (1974 film), Black Sheep (2006 New Zealand film), Blacker Than the Night, Blood and Black Lace, ... Expand index (462 more) »
- Horror fiction
- Horror films
A Chinese Ghost Story
A Chinese Ghost Story (l) is a 1987 Hong Kong romantic comedy horror film starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong and Wu Ma, directed by Ching Siu-tung and produced by Tsui Hark.
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol.
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A Devilish Homicide
A Devilish Homicide is a 1965 South Korean film written and directed by Lee Yong-min.
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A Film by Aravind
A Film by Aravind is 2005 Indian Telugu-language horror film written and directed by Sekhar Suri.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)
A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American supernatural slasher media franchise consisting of nine films, a television series, novels, comic books, and various other media.
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A Tale of Two Sisters
A Tale of Two Sisters (lit. "Rose Flower, Red Lotus") is a 2003 South Korean psychological horror film written and directed by Kim Jee-woon.
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A Touch of Zen
A Touch of Zen is a 1971 wuxia film written, co-edited and directed by King Hu.
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Abel Salazar (actor)
Abel Salazar García (24 September 1917 – 21 October 1995) was a Mexican actor, producer and director. He appeared in 70 films between 1941 and 1989. He was a son of Don García and his wife, and brother to Don Alfredo Salazar.
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Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
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Afterlife
The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body.
Ahn Byeong-ki
Ahn Byeong-ki (born November 5, 1966, or 1967) is a South Korean film director, producer, and screenwriter specializing in horror films.
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Albert Goodwin (artist)
Albert Goodwin (1845–1932) was an English landscapist specialising in watercolours.
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Alejandro Amenábar
Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born 31 March 1972) is a Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer.
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Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, known professionally as Alexandre Aja (born 7 August 1978), is a French filmmaker best known for his work in the horror genre.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.
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Alien (film)
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon.
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Alien (franchise)
Alien is a science fiction horror and action media franchise centered on the original film series which depicts warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform, commonly referred to as the Alien ("Xenomorph"), and the prequel series following the exploits of the David 8 android (Michael Fassbender) and the creators of the eponymous creatures referred to as the "Engineers".
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Alone in the Dark (2005 film)
Alone in the Dark is a 2005 action horror film directed by Uwe Boll and written by Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, and Peter Scheerer.
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Amando de Ossorio
Amando de Ossorio (6 April 1918 – 13 January 2001) was one of the foremost Spanish horror film directors during the European horror film surge in the 1970s, known especially for his "Blind Dead" tetralogy.
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American International Pictures
American International Pictures LLC (AIP or American International Productions) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.
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Anatomy (film)
Anatomy (Anatomie) is a 2000 German horror film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky that stars Franka Potente.
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Animal rights movement
The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.
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Animism
Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
Ann Hui
Ann Hui On-wah, (born 23 May 1947) is a film director, producer, screenwriter and actress from Hong Kong who is one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave.
Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and bible fiction.
Ant Timpson
Ant Timpson (born 21 April 1966) is a New Zealand film producer and director, best known for producing The ABCs of Death series, Turbo Kid, Deathgasm and The Greasy Strangler.
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Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel)
Antena 3 (Antena Tres) is a Spanish terrestrial television channel part of Atresmedia, of which it is the flagship station.
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Antibodies (film)
Antibodies (Antikörper) is a 2005 German crime thriller film written and directed by Christian Alvart, and starring Wotan Wilke Möhring, André Hennicke and Heinz Hoenig.
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Anticonformity (psychology)
Anticonformity (counterconformity) refers to when an individual consciously and deliberately challenges the position or actions of the group.
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Antonio Margheriti
Antonio Margheriti (19 September 1930 – 4 November 2002), also known under the pseudonyms Anthony M. Dawson and Antony Daisies ("daisies" is "margherite" in Italian), was an Italian filmmaker.
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Antony I. Ginnane
Antony I. Ginnane is an Australian film producer best known for his work in the exploitation field.
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Anxiety
Anxiety is an emotion which is characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events.
Ape (1976 film)
A*P*E, released in South Korea as King Kong's Great Counterattack, is a 1976 monster film.
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. Horror film and Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are film genres.
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April Fool's Day (1986 film)
April Fool's Day is a 1986 American black comedy mystery slasher film directed by Fred Walton, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Thomas F. Wilson, Deborah Foreman, Griffin O'Neal, Amy Steel, Ken Olandt, Deborah Goodrich, and Leah Pinsent.
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Armageddon
According to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, Armageddon (Late Latin: Armagedōn; from Hebrew: Har Məgīddō) is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end times, which is variously interpreted as either a literal or a symbolic location.
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Art horror
Art horror or arthouse horror (sometimes called elevated horror) is a sub-genre of both horror films and art-films. Horror film and art horror are film genres.
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Arundhati (2009 film)
Arundhati is a 2009 Indian Telugu-language horror fantasy film directed by Kodi Ramakrishna, and produced by Shyam Prasad Reddy, under his banner, Mallemala Entertainments.
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Atonality
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.
Australian Film Commission
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) was an Australian government agency was founded in 1975 with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in Australia as well as to preserve the country's film history.
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Auteur
An auteur ('author') is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded and personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, thus manifesting the director's unique style or thematic focus.
Autonomous University of Madrid
The Autonomous University of Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain.
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Álex de la Iglesia
Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza (born 4 December 1965) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former comic book artist.
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Bad Taste
Bad Taste is a 1987 New Zealand science-fiction comedy horror film directed, produced and filmed by Peter Jackson, who also starred in it and co-wrote the screenplay, along with Tony Hiles and Ken Hammon.
Ben (film)
Ben is a 1972 American horror film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, and Arthur O'Connell.
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Bhoot (film)
Bhoot is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and stars an ensemble cast of Ajay Devgn, Urmila Matondkar, Nana Patekar, Rekha, Fardeen Khan and Tanuja.
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Black Christmas (1974 film)
Black Christmas (originally titled Silent Night, Evil Night in the United States and retitled Stranger in the House on television screenings) is a 1974 Canadian slasher film produced and directed by Bob Clark, and written by Roy Moore.
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Black Sheep (2006 New Zealand film)
Black Sheep is a 2006 New Zealand comedy horror film written and directed by Jonathan King.
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Blacker Than the Night
Más Negro que la Noche (Blacker Than Night) is a 1975 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
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Blood and Black Lace
Blood and Black Lace (lit) is a 1964 giallo film directed by Mario Bava and starring Eva Bartok and Cameron Mitchell.
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Bloody Beach
Bloody Beach is a 2000 South Korean slasher film starring Kim Hyun-jung and Jae Hee.
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Bloody Reunion
Bloody Reunion (aka To Sir, with Love, My Teacher or Teacher's Mercy) is a 2006 South Korean horror film, and the feature film debut of director Im Dae-Woong.
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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 to any other creature. Horror film and body horror are film genres.
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Book of Wonders
The Kitāb al-Bulhān, or Book of Wonders, is a 14th and 15th century Arabic manuscript, compiled by Hassan Esfahani (Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani) probably bound during the reign of Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad (1382–1410) in Baghdad.
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Braindead (film)
Braindead (also known as Dead Alive in North America) is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy splatter film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh, and Jackson based on an original story idea by Sinclair.
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American vampire horror film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by James V. Hart, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American science fiction horror film, and the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein.
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Bridge to Nowhere (film)
Bridge to Nowhere is a 1986 New Zealand horror/thriller film directed and co-written by Ian Mune, and produced by Larry Parr.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.
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British horror cinema
British horror cinema is a sub-category of horror films made by British studios.
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Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont (born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter.
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Bruno Mattei
Bruno Mattei (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor who directed exploitation films in many genres, including women in prison, nunsploitation, zombie, mondo, cannibal, and Nazisploitation films.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Bug (1975 film)
Bug is a 1975 American horror film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by William Castle and Thomas Page, from Page's novel The Hephaestus Plague (1973).
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Canal+ (Spanish TV channel)
Canal+ was a Spanish commercial television channel operated by Sogecable, before its eventual sale to Telefónica.
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Candyman (film series)
Candyman is an American supernatural horror film series originating from the 1985 short story "The Forbidden" from the collection Books of Blood by Clive Barker, about the legend of the "Candyman", the ghost of an artist and son of a slave who was murdered in the late 19th century.
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Cannibal film
Cannibal films, alternatively known as the cannibal genre or the cannibal boom, are a subgenre of horror films made predominantly by Italian filmmakers during the 1970s and 1980s. Horror film and cannibal film are film genres.
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Carlos Enrique Taboada
Carlos Enrique Taboada Walker (July 18, 1929 - April 15, 1997) was a Mexican screenwriter and director.
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Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat (born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School.
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Censorship
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.
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Central Board of Film Certification
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a statutory film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Chinese horror film
Chinese horror include films from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that are part of the stream of Asian horror films.
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Christmas horror
Christmas horror is a fiction genre and film genre that incorporates horror elements into a seasonal setting. Horror film and Christmas horror are film genres.
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Chun Doo-hwan
Chun Doo-hwan (or; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician, army general and military dictator who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.
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Cinema of Asia
Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia.
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Cinema of Australia
The cinema of Australia began with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, arguably the world's first feature film.
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Cinema of Europe
Cinema of Europe refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Europe.
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Cinema of France
The cinema of France comprises the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies abroad.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.
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Cinema of Indonesia
The cinema of Indonesia refers to films produced domestically in Indonesia.
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Cinema of Malaysia
The cinema of Malaysia consists of feature films produced in Malaysia, shot in the languages Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, various indigenous languages, and English.
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Cinema of New Zealand
New Zealand cinema can refer to films made by New Zealand-based production companies in New Zealand.
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Cinema of West Bengal
Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is an Indian film industry of Bengali-language motion pictures.
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Claire Denis
Claire Denis (born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter.
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Classical conditioning
Classical conditioning (also respondent conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning) is a behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food, a puff of air on the eye, a potential rival) is paired with a neutral stimulus (e.g. the sound of a musical triangle).
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Close-up
A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object.
Cognitive dissonance
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental disturbance people feel when their cognitions and actions are inconsistent or contradictory.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Comedy horror
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Horror film and comedy horror are film genres.
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Composer
A composer is a person who writes music.
Consonance and dissonance
In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.
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Crazy/Beautiful
Crazy/Beautiful (stylized as crazy/beautiful) is a 2001 American teen romantic drama film starring Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez.
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Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
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Cultural cringe
In the fields of cultural studies and social anthropology, cultural cringe is an expression used to refer to an internalized inferiority complex where people dismiss their own culture as inferior (cringe-inducing) when compared to the cultures of other countries.
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Cultural icon
A cultural icon is a person or an artifact that is identified by members of a culture as representative of that culture.
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Dario Argento
Dario Argento (born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Dark Waters (1944 film)
Dark Waters is a 1944 American Gothic film noir based on the novel of the same name by Francis and Marian Cockrell.
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David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)
Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A. Romero, and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein.
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Daydream (1964 film)
is a 1964 Japanese pink film.
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Dead Easy (1970 film)
Dead Easy is a 1970 Australian film.
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Death Warmed Up
Death Warmed Up (released in the Philippines as Dr. Evil: Part II) is a 1984 New Zealand science fiction horror splatter zombie film directed by David Blyth.
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Deathgasm
Deathgasm is a 2015 New Zealand comedy horror film written and directed by Jason Lei Howden in his feature directorial debut.
Decadent movement
The Decadent movement (from the French décadence) was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
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Demon
A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.
Dennis Yu
Dennis Yu Yun-kong (余允抗) is a Hong Kong film director active in the 1980s, and a crucial member of Hong Kong New Wave.
Disability in horror films
Horror films have frequently featured disability, dating to the genre's earliest origins in the 1930s. Horror film and disability in horror films are horror films.
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Disgust
Disgust (desgouster, from Latin gustus) is an emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious or something considered offensive, distasteful or unpleasant.
Donald Richie
Donald Richie (April 17, 1924 – February 19, 2013) was an American-born author who wrote about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema.
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Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films.
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Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo
Dr.
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Dr. Lamb
Dr.
Dracula
Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897.
Dracula (1924 play)
Dracula is a stage play written by the Irish actor and playwright Hamilton Deane in 1924, then revised by the American writer John L. Balderston in 1927.
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Dracula (1931 English-language film)
Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi in the title role.
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Dracula (1931 Spanish-language film)
Dracula is a 1931 Spanish-language American horror film directed by George Melford.
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Dream Home
Dream Home (維多利亞壹號 Wai dor lei ah yut ho, literally Victoria No. 1) is a 2010 Hong Kong slasher film directed and co-written by Pang Ho-cheung.
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Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
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Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Eeram
Eeram is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language supernatural crime thriller film written and directed by Arivazhagan in his directorial debut and produced by S. Shankar.
El Libro de piedra
El Libro de piedra (The Book of Stone) is a 1969 Mexican supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
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El País
() is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.
El vampiro
El vampiro (The Vampire) is a 1957 Mexican horror film, produced by Abel Salazar and directed by Fernando Méndez from an original screenplay by Ramon Obon, and starring German Robles as Count Lavud, the vampire, Abel Salazar as Dr.
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Electrodermal activity
Electrodermal activity (EDA) is the property of the human body that causes continuous variation in the electrical characteristics of the skin.
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Electromyography
Electromyography (EMG) is a technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles.
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Encounters of the Spooky Kind
Encounters of the Spooky Kind is a 1980 Hong Kong martial arts comedy horror film directed by and starring Sammo Hung, who also wrote the film with Huang Ying, and produced by Hung's production company Bo Ho Film Company.
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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
The global pandemic of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) began in 1981, and is an ongoing worldwide public health issue.
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Erotic comics
Erotic comics are adult comics which focus substantially on nudity and sexual activity, either for their own sake or as a major story element.
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Erotic horror
Erotic horror, alternately called horror erotica or dark erotica, is a term applied to works of fiction in which sensual or sexual imagery are blended with horrific overtones or story elements for the sake of sexual titillation.
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Evil Dead Trap
Evil Dead Trap (known in Japan as lit. Trap of The Dead Spirits) is a 1988 Japanese supernatural slasher film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and produced by Japan Home Video.
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Excitation-transfer theory
Excitation-transfer theory, based heavily on psychology, psychophysiology, and biochemistry, is a psychological theory that originated in the field of social psychology and effects studies pertaining to communication.
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Exorcism
Exorcism is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons, jinns, or other malevolent spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that is believed to be possessed.
Exploitation film
An exploitation film is a film that tries to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Horror film and exploitation film are film genres.
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Fandom
A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest.
Fangoria
Fangoria is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979.
Fantastique
Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by the intrusion of supernatural elements into the realistic framework of a story, accompanied by uncertainty about their existence.
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Fascination (1979 film)
Fascination is a 1979 French horror film written and directed by Jean Rollin, and starring Franca Maï and Brigitte Lahaie.
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Fear
Fear is an intensely unpleasant primal emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat.
Federal Agency for Child and Youth Protection in the Media
The Federal Agency for Child and Youth Protection in the Media (Bundeszentrale für Kinder- und Jugendmedienschutz or BzKJ), until 2021 "Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors" (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Media or BPjM), is an upper-level German federal agency and youth protection panel subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
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Fight-or-flight response
The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.
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Film and television financing in Australia
Film and TV financing in Australia refers to government assistance to TV and cinema in Australia.
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Film censorship
Film censorship is the censorship of motion pictures, either through the excising of certain frames or scenes, or outright banning of films in their entirety.
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Film censorship in China
Film censorship in China involves the banning of films which are deemed unsuitable for release and it also involves the editing of such films and the removal of content which is objected to by the governments of China.
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Film censorship in the United Kingdom
Film censorship in the United Kingdom began with early cinema exhibition becoming subject to the Disorderly Houses Act 1751.
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Film criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.
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Film genre
A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. Horror film and film genre are film genres.
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Film International
Film International is a quarterly academic journal (with a companion site, FilmInt, containing exclusive content) covering film studies.
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Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. Horror film and Film noir are film genres.
Filmax
Filmax International is a Spanish motion picture production company and film distributor based in Barcelona, and one of Spain's largest integrated film and television groups.
First-person narrative
A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storyteller's own personal point of view, using first-person grammar such as "I", "me", "my", and "myself" (also, in plural form, "we", "us", etc.).
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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. Horror film and folk horror are film genres.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Found footage (film technique)
Found footage is a cinematic technique in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were film or video recordings recorded by characters in the story, and later "found" and presented to the audience. Horror film and Found footage (film technique) are horror films.
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Fox spirit
Huli jing are Chinese mythological creatures usually capable of shapeshifting, who may either be benevolent or malevolent spirits.
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Framing (visual arts)
In visual arts and particularly cinematography, framing is the presentation of visual elements in an image, especially the placement of the subject in relation to other objects.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born 7 April 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
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Frankenstein's Daughter
Frankenstein's Daughter is an independently made 1958 American black-and-white science fiction/horror film drama, produced by Marc Frederic and George Fowley, directed by Richard E. Cunha, that stars John Ashley, Sandra Knight, Donald Murphy, and Sally Todd.
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Frankenstein's monster
Frankenstein's monster, also referred to as Frankenstein, is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as its main antagonist.
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Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger is the antagonist of the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' horror film franchise.
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Friday the 13th (1980 film)
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon.
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Frogs (film)
Frogs is a 1972 American horror film directed by George McCowan.
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Frontier(s)
Frontier(s) (Frontière(s)) is a 2007 French-Swiss independent horror film written and directed by Xavier Gens in his feature length debut and stars Karina Testa, Aurélien Wiik, Estelle Lefébure, and Samuel Le Bihan.
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow.
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Gary D. Rhodes
Gary Don Rhodes (born 1972) is an American writer, filmmaker, and film historian.
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Gaslight (1944 film)
Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury in her film debut.
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Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé (born 27 December 1963) is an Argentine-Italian filmmaker based in Paris.
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Gehrayee
Gehrayee is a 1980 Indian horror thriller film directed by Vikas Desai and Aruna Raje based on a script by Vijay Tendulkar, Desai and Raje, and starring Anant Nag, Padmini Kolhapure, Sriram Lagoo and Indrani Mukherjee with Amrish Puri in a guest appearance.
Gender in horror films
The representation of gender in horror films, particularly depictions of women, has been the subject of critical commentary.
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Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
George Melford
George H. Melford (born George Henry Knauff, February 19, 1877 – April 25, 1961) was an American stage and film actor and director.
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German expressionist cinema
German expressionist cinema was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th century that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s.
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German underground horror
German underground horror is a subgenre of the horror film, which has achieved cult popularity since first appearing in the mid-1980s. Horror film and German underground horror are film genres.
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Germán Robles
Germán Horacio Robles San Agustín (March 20, 1929 – November 21, 2015) was a Spanish actor who came to Mexico when he was 17, after the Spanish civil war.
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Get Out
Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut.
Ghost
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living.
Ghosts of Chosun
Ghosts of Chosun, or A Ghost Story of Joseon Dynasty, is a 1970 South Korean film directed by Shin Sang-ok.
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Giallo
In Italian cinema, giallo (gialli; from) is a genre of murder mystery fiction that often contains slasher, thriller, psychological horror, psychological thriller, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements. Horror film and giallo are film genres.
Gian Piero Brunetta
Gian Piero Brunetta (Cesena, 20 May 1942) is an Italian film critic, film historian, and academic.
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Godzilla (1954 film)
is a 1954 Japanese epic kaiju film directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
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Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Great White (1981 film)
Great White (a.k.a. The Last Shark; L'ultimo squalo) is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Enzo G. Castellari, having originally been assigned to Ruggero Deodato.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.
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Grief
Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.
Grindhouse
A grindhouse or action house is an American term for a theatre that mainly shows low-budget horror, splatter, and exploitation films for adults. Horror film and grindhouse are film genres.
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Grizzly (film)
Grizzly (also known as Killer Grizzly on U.S. television) is a 1976 American horror thriller film directed by William Girdler, about a park ranger's attempts to halt the wild rampage of an tall, man-eating grizzly bear that terrorizes a National Forest, having developed a taste for human flesh.
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H. R. Giger
Hans Ruedi Giger (5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical".
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Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London.
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Hasta el viento tiene miedo
Hasta el viento tiene miedo, known in English as Even the Wind is Afraid and The Wind of Fear, is a 1968 (1967 according to the ITESM) Mexican gothic supernatural horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
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Hays Code
The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.
Hellraiser (franchise)
Hellraiser is a British-American horror media franchise that consists of eleven films, as well as various comic books, and additional merchandise and media.
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Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990, Chancellor of Germany from 1990 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998.
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Hercules (1958 film)
Hercules (Le Fatiche di Ercole) is a 1958 Italian sword-and-sandal film based upon the Hercules and the Quest for the Golden Fleece myths.
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Herman Cohen
Herman Cohen (August 27, 1925 – June 2, 2002) was an American producer of B-movies during the 1950s, and helped to popularize the teen horror movie genre with films like the cult classic I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
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Hideo Nakata
is a Japanese filmmaker.
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High Tension
High Tension (French: Haute tension,; also known as Switchblade Romance in some international countries) is a 2003 French slasher film directed by Alexandre Aja, co-written with Grégory Levasseur, and starring Cécile de France and Maïwenn.
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Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
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History of horror films
The history of horror films was described by author Siegbert Solomon Prawer as difficult to read as a linear historical path, with the genre changing throughout the decades, based on the state of cinema, audience tastes and contemporary world events. Horror film and history of horror films are horror films.
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Hong Kong motion picture rating system
The Hong Kong motion picture rating system is a legal system of movie screening and rating.
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Horror and terror
The distinction between terror and horror is a standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic and horror fiction.
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Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.
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Horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror film and Horror film are film genres, horror fiction and horror films.
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Horror film score
A horror film score is music used and often specially written for films in the horror genre. Horror film and horror film score are horror films.
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Horror films of Cambodia
Horror films in Cambodia, first popular in the 1970s, have received renewed attention in Cambodian film making since the resurgence of the local industry in 2003.
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House of the Dead (film)
House of the Dead is a 2003 action horror film directed by Uwe Boll, from a screenplay by Dave Parker and Mark Altman.
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Housebound (2014 film)
Housebound is a 2014 New Zealand horror comedy film written, edited, and directed by Gerard Johnstone, in his feature film directorial debut.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American slasher film directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Kevin Williamson.
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (U.K. title: Teenage Frankenstein) is a horror film starring Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates and Gary Conway, released by American International Pictures (AIP) in November 1957 as a double feature with Blood of Dracula.
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I Was a Teenage Werewolf
I Was a Teenage Werewolf is a 1957 American science fiction horror film directed by Gene Fowler Jr., and starring Michael Landon as a troubled teenager, Yvonne Lime and Whit Bissell.
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Il Giallo Mondadori
Il Giallo Mondadori is an Italian series of mystery/crime novels published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since 1929.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
In My Skin (film)
In My Skin (French: Dans ma peau) is a 2002 New French Extremity horror film written by, directed by, and starring Marina de Van.
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IndieWire
IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.
Indonesian horror
Indonesian horror are the films of the horror genre produced by the Indonesian film industry.
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Inferno (1980 film)
Inferno is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento, and starring Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi and Alida Valli.
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Infrasound
Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low frequency sound, describes sound waves with a frequency below the lower limit of human audibility (generally 20 Hz, as defined by the ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013 standard).
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Inside (2007 film)
Inside (À l'intérieur) is a 2007 French slasher film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo in their directorial debut, written by Bustillo, and starring Béatrice Dalle and Alysson Paradis.
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Invasion
An invasion is a military offensive of combatants of one geopolitical entity, usually in large numbers, entering territory controlled by another similar entity.
Italian neorealism
Italian neorealism (Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class.
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J. A. Bayona
Juan Antonio García Bayona (born 9 May 1975) is a Spanish filmmaker.
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James Marriott (author)
James Patrick Blackden Marriott (6 September 1972 – 28 July 2012) was an English film critic and writer of fiction and non-fiction.
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James Quandt
James Quandt is a Canadian film historian and festival programmer, best known as the longtime head programmer of the TIFF Cinematheque program of film retrospectives.
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Japanese horror
Japanese horror is horror fiction derived from popular culture in Japan, generally noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre differing from the traditional Western representation of horror.
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Japanese New Wave
The is a term for a group of loosely-connected Japanese films and filmmakers between the late 1950s and the early 1970s.
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Jaume Balagueró
Jaume Balagueró Bernat (born 2 November 1968) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter known for his horror films, most notably the acclaimed ''REC'' series.
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Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.
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Jaws 2
Jaws 2 is a 1978 American horror thriller film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and co-written by Carl Gottlieb.
Jörg Buttgereit
Jörg Buttgereit (born 20 December 1963) is a German writer/director known for his controversial films.
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Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 193815 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre.
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Jean Rollin filmography
Jean Rollin was a French director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and actor.
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Jesús Franco
Jesús Franco Manera (12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013), also commonly known as Jess Franco, was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a highly-prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies.
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Jiangshi
A jiāngshī, also known as a Chinese hopping vampire, is a type of undead creature or reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore.
Joe D'Amato
Aristide Massaccesi (15 December 1936 – 23 January 1999), known professionally as Joe D'Amato, was an Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter who worked in many genres (westerns, decamerotici, peplum, war films, swashbuckler, comedy, fantasy, postapocalyptic film, and erotic thriller) but is best known for his horror, erotic and adult films.
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Jonathan King (film director)
Jonathan King (born 1967) is a New Zealand film director.
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Jordan Peele
Jordan Haworth Peele (born February 21, 1979) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker.
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Jorge Grau
Jorge Grau (born Jorge Grau Solá, 27 October 1930 – 26 December 2018) was a Spanish director, scriptwriter, playwright and painter.
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Ju-On: The Grudge
Ju-On: The Grudge is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu.
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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (born 5 December 1967) is a Spanish film director, script writer, and producer.
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Julia Ducournau
Julia Ducournau (born 18 November 1983) is a French film director and screenwriter.
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Jump scare
A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games, intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with an abrupt change in image or event, usually co-occurring with a loud, jarring sound. Horror film and jump scare are horror films.
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Junk (film)
is a 2000 Japanese horror film written and directed by Atsushi Muroga.
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Kabuki
is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance.
Kaibyō
are supernatural cats in Japanese folklore.
Kaidan
is a Japanese word consisting of two kanji: 怪 (kai) meaning "strange, mysterious, rare, or bewitching apparition" and 談 (dan) meaning "talk" or "recited narrative".
Karma
Karma (from कर्म,; italic) is an ancient Indian concept that refers to an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences.
Khooni Mahal
Khooni Mahal is a 1987 Bollywood horror film directed by Mohan Bhakri.
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Kim Newman
Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer.
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King Hu
Hu Jinquan (胡金銓, 29 April 1932 – 14 January 1997), better known as King Hu, was a Chinese film director and actor based in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Korean Confucianism
Korean Confucianism is the form of Confucianism that emerged and developed in Korea.
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Korean Film Archive
The Korean Film Archive (KOFA), or the Korean Federation of Film Archives, is the sole film archive in South Korea with nationwide coverage.
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Korean horror
Korean horror films have been around since the early years of Korean cinema, however, it was not until the late 1990s that the genre began to experience a renewal.
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Kuei Chih-Hung
Kuei Chih-Hung (桂治洪, aka Kwei Chi Hung, Gui Zhi-Hong, Gwai Chi-hung) (20 December 1937 – 1 October 1999) was a filmmaker who worked for the Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers Studios, directing more than 40 films throughout the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.
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Kumiho
A kumiho or gumiho (literally "nine-tailed fox") is a creature that appears in the folktales on East Asia and legends of Korea.
Kuroneko
Galbraith IV, Stuart (1994).
L'Osservatore Romano
L'Osservatore Romano ('The Roman Observer') is the daily newspaper of Vatican City State which reports on the activities of the Holy See and events taking place in the Catholic Church and the world.
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La Llorona
La Llorona is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
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Lamberto Bava
Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director.
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Laura (1944 film)
Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger.
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Le viol du vampire
Le viol du vampire (English: The Rape of the Vampire, also known as The Queen of the Vampires) is a 1968 film directed by Jean Rollin.
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Legend of the Mountain
Legend of the Mountain (w) is a 1979 Taiwanese-Hong Kong film directed by King Hu.
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Legend of the White Snake
The Legend of the White Snake is a Chinese legend centered around a romance between a man named Xu Xian and a female snake spirit named Bai Suzhen.
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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (film)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (lit; also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Don't Open the Window) is a 1974 zombie horror film directed by Jorge Grau, and starring Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock and Arthur Kennedy.
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List of highest-grossing horror films
The following page lists the highest-grossing horror films, highest-grossing horror film franchises at the box office and the biggest opening weekends for many horror films.
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List of James Bond films
James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953.
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List of MDPI academic journals
This is a list of academic journals published by MDPI.
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List of natural horror films
Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.
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List of science fiction horror films
This is a list of science fiction horror films.
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Mad Max (film)
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote the screenplay with James McCausland, based on a story by Miller and Byron Kennedy.
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Mahal (1949 film)
Mahal is a 1949 Indian Hindi-language psychological supernatural horror film produced by Savak Vacha and Ashok Kumar under the banner of Bombay Talkies, and directed by Kamal Amrohi as his directorial debut.
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Mako: The Jaws of Death
Mako: The Jaws of Death is a 1976 thriller film directed by William Grefe.
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Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.
Mantra (2007 film)
Mantra is a 2007 Indian Telugu Horror susspens thriller film directed by Tulasi Ram and starring Charmy Kaur and Sivaji.
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Marina de Van
Marina de Van (born 8 February 1971) is a French film director, screenwriter and actress.
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Mario Bava
Mario Bava (31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980) was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter.
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Martyrs (2008 film)
Martyrs is a 2008 French-language psychological horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier, and starring Mylène Jampanoï, Morjana Alaoui, and Catherine Bégin.
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Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
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Masala film
Masala films of Indian cinema are those that blend multiple genres into one work. Horror film and Masala film are film genres.
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Massacre of the Innocents
The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a biblical story, recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.
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Melanie Rodriga
Melanie Rodriga (née Read; born 30 September 1954) is a New Zealand-Australian film maker, lecturer, and author.
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Midsommar
Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster.
Mirror
A mirror, also known as a looking glass, is an object that reflects an image.
Mohan Bhakri
Mohan Bhakri (died 18 April 2024) was an Indian b movie producer and director during the 1980s.
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Monster movie
A monster movie, monster film, creature feature or giant monster film is a film that focuses on one or more characters struggling to survive attacks by one or more antagonistic monsters, often abnormally large ones. Horror film and monster movie are film genres.
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Moral panic
A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.
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Motion Picture Association film rating system
The Motion Picture Association film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a motion picture's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.
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Mr. Vampire
Mr.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Mutilation
Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent utterly ruinous effect on an individual's quality of life.
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My Bloody Valentine (film)
My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film directed by George Mihalka and written by John Beaird.
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Mystery film
A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. Horror film and mystery film are film genres.
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National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), is a public research university in Mexico.
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National Fascist Party
The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian fascism and as a reorganisation of the previous Italian Fasces of Combat.
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Nazi exploitation
Nazi exploitation (also Nazisploitation) is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II. Horror film and Nazi exploitation are film genres.
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Negative affectivity
Negative affectivity (NA), or negative affect, is a personality variable that involves the experience of negative emotions and poor self-concept.
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Negative space
In art and design, negative space is the empty space around and between the subject(s) of an image.
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New Extremity
New Extreme Films (New Extremity or, also often, New French Extremity) describes a range of transgressive films made at the turn of the 21st century that sparked controversy, and provoked significant debate and discussion.
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Night Creature
Night Creature is a 1978 American horror film starring Donald Pleasence and Nancy Kwan.
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Night of Fear (film)
Night of Fear is a 1972 Australian horror film, directed by Terry Bourke.
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Night of the Lepus
Night of the Lepus (also known as Rabbits) is a 1972 American science fiction horror film directed by William F. Claxton and produced by A.C. Lyles.
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Nightmare (2000 film)
Nightmare (lit. "Scissors", also known as Horror Game Movie; released in the Philippines as Gawi: The Nightmare) is a South Korean horror film, released in 2000.
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Noël Carroll
Noël Carroll (born 1947) is an American philosopher considered to be one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of art.
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Noh
is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Olaf Ittenbach
Olaf Ittenbach (born 27 February 1969) is a German film director, actor and special effects artist known for his work in German underground horror films.
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One Cut of the Dead
is a 2017 Japanese independent zombie comedy film written and directed by Shin'ichirō Ueda.
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Onibaba (film)
, also titled The Hole, is a 1964 Japanese historical drama and horror film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō.
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Orca (1977 film)
Orca (also known as Orca: The Killer Whale) is a 1977 American horror thriller film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling and Will Sampson.
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Ozploitation
Ozploitation films are exploitation films – a category of low-budget horror, comedy, sexploitation and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971. Horror film and Ozploitation are film genres.
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Paco Plaza
Francisco Plaza Trinidad (born 8 February 1973), simply known as Paco Plaza, is a Spanish film director known for his works in the horror genre.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.
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Palme d'Or
The (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Pantheism
Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity is a 2007 American supernatural horror film produced, written, directed, photographed, and edited by Oren Peli.
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Park Chan-wook
Park Chan-wook (born 23 August 1963) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic.
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Patrick (1978 film)
Patrick is a 1978 Australian science fiction horror film directed by Richard Franklin and written by Everett De Roche.
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Patrick Tam (film director)
Patrick Tam Ka-ming (born 25 March 1948) is a Hong Kong film director and film editor.
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Paul Naschy
Jacinto Molina Álvarez (September 6, 1934 – November 30, 2009) known by his stage name Paul Naschy, was a Spanish film actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films.
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Peninsula (film)
Peninsula (marketed internationally as Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula) is a 2020 South Korean post-apocalyptic action horror film co-written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho.
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Personality
Personality is any person's collection of interrelated behavioral, cognitive and emotional patterns that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life.
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Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Phallus
A phallus (phalli or phalluses) is a penis (especially when erect), an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis.
Phantom Lady (film)
Phantom Lady is a 1944 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, and Alan Curtis.
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Phone (film)
Phone (released in the Philippines as The Phone) is a 2002 South Korean supernatural horror film written and directed by Ahn Byeong-ki and starring Ha Ji-won and Kim Yoo-mi.
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Pilar Miró
Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero (20 April 1940 – 19 October 1997) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.
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Pink film
refers in Japan to movies produced by independent studios that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. Horror film and Pink film are film genres.
PopMatters
PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.
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Post-9/11
The post-9/11 period is the time after the September 11 attacks, characterized by heightened suspicion of non-Americans in the United States, increased government efforts to address terrorism, and a more aggressive American foreign policy.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
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PRISA TV
PRISA Televisión, S.A.U (PRISA TV) is a pay TV company in Spain.
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a story.
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Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Psychological horror
Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience. Horror film and psychological horror are film genres and horror fiction.
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Pu Songling
Pu Songling (5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty, best known as the author of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi).
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.
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Purana Mandir
Purana Mandir is a 1984 Indian Hindi-language horror film directed by the Ramsay brothers and produced by Kanta Ramsay.
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Raat (film)
Raat in Hindi or Raatri in Telugu is a 1992 Indian supernatural horror film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma.
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Race in horror films
Depictions of race in horror films has been the subject of commentary by fans and academics. Horror film and race in horror films are horror films.
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Ram Gopal Varma
Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma (born 7 April 1962), often referred to by his initials RGV, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Telugu cinema in addition to Hindi, Kannada language films, and television.
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Ramsay Brothers
Ramsay Brothers is a pseudonym or brand name used for a family of Bollywood filmmakers, the sons and grandsons of F.U. Ramsay.
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Ranchería
The Spanish word ranchería, or rancherío, refers to a small, rural settlement.
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.
Rec (film series)
Rec (stylized as) is a Spanish supernatural zombie horror film franchise.
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Relationship between religion and science
The relationship between religion and science involves discussions that interconnect the study of the natural world, history, philosophy, and theology.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil is a Japanese horror game series and media franchise created by Capcom.
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Riccardo Freda
Riccardo Freda (24 February 1909 – 20 December 1999) was an Italian film director.
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Rigor Mortis (film)
Rigor Mortis is a 2013 Hong Kong horror film directed by Juno Mak and produced by Takashi Shimizu.
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Ring (film)
is a 1998 Japanese supernatural psychological horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki.
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Robin Wood (critic)
Robert Paul "Robin" Wood (23 February 1931 – 18 December 2009) was an English film critic and educator who lived in Canada for much of his life.
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Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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Rue Morgue (magazine)
Rue Morgue is a multinational magazine devoted to coverage of horror fiction.
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Rural area
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.
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Sam Raimi
Samuel M. Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Sammo Hung
Samuel "Sammo" Hung Kam-bo (j; born 7 January 1952) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film producer and director, known for his work in martial arts films, Hong Kong action cinema, and as a fight choreographer for other actors such as Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Yuen Wah.
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Satanic film
A Satanic film is a subgenre of horror film, and at times other film genres, that involves the Devil as a concept or a character. Horror film and Satanic film are film genres.
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Science fiction film
Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies. Horror film and science fiction film are film genres.
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Scream (1996 film)
Scream is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson.
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Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
Serial film
A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.
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Sexual arousal
Sexual arousal (also known as sexual excitement) describes the physiological and psychological responses in preparation for sexual intercourse or when exposed to sexual stimuli.
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Shadow of a Doubt
Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten.
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Sharknado (film series)
Sharknado is an American six-film made-for-television science fiction action comedy horror disaster film series released by Syfy between 2013 and 2018.
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Shaw Brothers Studio
Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, operating from 1925 to 2011.
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Shin Sang-ok
Shin Sang-ok (신상옥; born Shin Tae-seo; October 11, 1926 – April 11, 2006) was a South Korean filmmaker with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name.
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Shinto
Shinto is a religion originating in Japan.
Shivers (1975 film)
Shivers, also known as The Parasite Murders and They Came from Within, and, for Canadian distribution in French, Frissons ('chills' or 'shivers'), is a 1975 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, and Barbara Steele.
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Shochiku
is a Japanese entertainment company.
Shock (1946 film)
Shock is a 1946 American film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Vincent Price, Lynn Bari and Frank Latimore.
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Siegfried Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer (February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist.
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Sight and Sound
Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).
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Silent film
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Horror film and silent film are film genres.
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Silent Night, Bloody Night
Silent Night, Bloody Night is a 1972 American slasher film directed by Theodore Gershuny and co-produced by Lloyd Kaufman.
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Sivi (film)
Sivi is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language horror film directed by K. R. Senthil Nathan and starring Yogi, Jayashri Rao and Anuja Iyer.
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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. Horror film and slasher film are film genres.
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Social cycle theory
Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology.
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Southeast Asian cinema
Southeast Asian cinema is the film industry and films produced in, or by natives of Southeast Asia.
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Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. Horror film and spaghetti Western are film genres.
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Spellbound (1945 film)
Spellbound is a 1945 American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov.
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Spirit possession
Spirit possession is an unusual or an altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors which are purportedly caused by the control of a human body and its functions by spirits, ghosts, demons, angels, or gods.
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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. Horror film and splatter film are film genres.
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Squirm
Squirm is a 1976 American natural horror film written and directed by Jeff Lieberman in his feature-film directing debut, starring Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R. A. Dow, Jean Sullivan, Peter MacLean, Fran Higgins and William Newman.
Stanley (1972 film)
Stanley is a 1972 American horror film directed and produced by William Grefé, about a Seminole Indian and a Vietnam veteran who uses his collection of pet snakes to take revenge on his enemies.
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Stoker (film)
Stoker is a 2013 psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook, in his English-language debut, and written by Wentworth Miller.
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Strange Behavior
Strange Behavior (also known as Dead Kids, Small Town Massacre, Shadowlands, Human Experiments) is a 1981 slasher film written, directed and co-produced by Michael Laughlin, co-written with Bill Condon, and starring Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher and Dan Shor.
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Liaozhai zhiyi, sometimes shortened to Liaozhai, known in English as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio, or literally Strange Tales from a Studio of Leisure, is a collection of Classical Chinese stories by Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling, comprising close to 500 stories or "marvel tales" in the zhiguai and chuanqi styles, which according to some critics, served to implicitly criticise societal problems.
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Stuff (website)
Stuff is a New Zealand news media website owned by newspaper conglomerate Stuff Ltd (formerly called Fairfax).
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Subversion
Subversion refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to sabotage the established social order and its structures of power, authority, tradition, hierarchy, and social norms.
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Suddenly at Midnight
Suddenly at Midnight (also known as Suddenly in the Dark or Suddenly in Dark Night) is a 1981 South Korean erotic horror thriller film directed by Ko Young-nam.
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Supernatural
Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.
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Supernatural fiction
Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world. Horror film and supernatural fiction are horror fiction.
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Supernatural horror film
Supernatural horror film is a film genre that combines aspects of supernatural film and horror film.
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Superstition
A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural influence, or fear of that which is unknown.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.
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Suspense
Suspense is a state of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness, uncertainty, doubt, or undecidedness.
Sword-and-sandal
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. Horror film and Sword-and-sandal are film genres.
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Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Tamil language, the main spoken language in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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Telecinco
Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España.
Telecinco Cinema
Telecinco Cinema, S.A.U. is the film production division of Mediaset España.
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Telugu cinema
Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
is a 1989 Japanese science fiction horror film directed, written, produced, and edited by Shinya Tsukamoto.
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Thai horror
Thai horror refers to horror films produced in the Thai film industry.
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The ABCs of Death
The ABCs of Death is a 2012 American comedy horror anthology film produced by international producers and directed by filmmakers from around the world.
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The Awful Dr. Orloff
The Awful Dr.
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a 1970 giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento, in his directorial debut.
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The Birds (film)
The Birds is a 1963 American natural horror-thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, released by Universal Pictures.
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The Blood on Satan's Claw
The Blood on Satan's Claw is a 1971 British supernatural period folk horror film directed by Piers Haggard and starring Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, and Barry Andrews.
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The Blood Spattered Bride
The Blood Spattered Bride (La novia ensangrentada) is a 1972 Spanish horror film written and directed by Vicente Aranda, based on the 1872 vampire novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
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The Boxer's Omen
The Boxer's Omen (魔, Mó, Magic) is a 1983 Hong Kong horror film directed by Kuei Chih-Hung and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio.
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The Cars That Ate Paris
The Cars That Ate Paris is a 1974 Australian horror comedy film, produced by twin brothers Hal and Jim McElroy and directed by Peter Weir.
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The Dark Corner
The Dark Corner is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix and Mark Stevens.
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The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
Daughter of Dr.
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The Day of the Beast
The Day of the Beast (El día de la bestia) is a 1995 Spanish-Italian black comedy film co-written and directed by Álex de la Iglesia and starring Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza and Santiago Segura.
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The Enchanting Shadow
The Enchanting Shadow (Sin neui yau wan, Chi’en-nu Yu-Hin, Qiàn yǚ Yōuhún) is a 1960 Hong Kong drama film directed by Li Han-hsiang.
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The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead is a 1981 American independent supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi (in his feature directorial debut).
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The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.
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The Face at the Window (1919 film)
The Face at the Window is a 1919 Australian silent film about a master criminal and serial killer sought by the police.
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The Faculty
The Faculty is a 1998 American science fiction horror film directed and edited by Robert Rodriguez with a screenplay by Kevin Williamson.
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The Fly (1986 film)
The Fly is a 1986 American science fiction body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg.
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The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
is a 1960 Japanese horror film directed and co-written by Yoshihiro Ishikawa, in his directorial debut.
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963 film)
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (La ragazza che sapeva troppo) is a 1963 Italian giallo film directed by Mario Bava, starring John Saxon as Dr.
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The Guyra Ghost Mystery
The Guyra Ghost Mystery is a 1921 Australian film written and directed by John Cosgrove.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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The Housemaid (1960 film)
The Housemaid is a 1960 South Korean film, produced, written and directed by Kim Ki-young.
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The Imp (1981 film)
The Imp (兇榜; Taiwan name:魔界轉世/魔界轉生) is a 1981 Hong Kong horror film directed by Dennis Yu.
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The Last House in the Woods
The Last House In The Woods (Il Bosco Fuori) is a 2006 Italian horror film, which was directed by Gabriele Albanesi and stars Daniela Virgilio, Daniele Grasseti and Gennaro Diana.
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The Last House on the Left
The Last House on the Left is a 1972 rape and revenge film written and directed by Wes Craven in his directorial debut, and produced by Sean S. Cunningham.
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The Last Wave
The Last Wave (also released in the United States as Black Rain) is a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir.
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is a 1974 martial arts horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker.
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The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.
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The Mark of the Wolfman
The Mark of the Wolfman (La Marca del Hombre Lobo), is a 1968 Spanish horror film, the first in a long series of films about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy.
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The Nameless (film)
The Nameless (Los Sin Nombre; Els sense nom) is a 1999 Spanish horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró in his directorial debut, and starring Emma Vilarasau, Karra Elejalde, and Tristán Ulloa.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a novella-fairy tale written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls.
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The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale
The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale is a 2019 South Korean zombie comedy film directed by Lee Min-jae, starring Jung Jae-young, Kim Nam-gil, Uhm Ji-won, Lee Soo-kyung, Jung Ga-ram and Park In-hwan.
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The Omen
The Omen is a 1976 supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer.
The Orphanage (2007 film)
The Orphanage (El orfanato) is a 2007 gothic supernatural horror film directed by J. A. Bayona in his directorial full-length debut.
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The Others (2001 film)
The Others (Los otros) is a 2001 gothic supernatural psychological horror film written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Alakina Mann and James Bentley.
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The Overlook Press
The Overlook Press is an American publishing house based in New York, New York which considers itself "a home for distinguished books that had been 'overlooked' by larger houses".
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The Record (film)
The Record is a 2000 South Korean horror film starring Kang Seong-min, Park Eun-hye and Han Chae-young.
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The Silence of the Lambs (film)
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name.
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The Spiral Staircase (1946 film)
The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American psychological horror film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore.
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The Stranger (1946 film)
The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and (although uncredited) co-written by Orson Welles, starring himself along with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young.
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The Strangler's Grip
The Strangler's Grip is a 1912 Australian silent film shot by Franklyn Barrett.
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The Tattooist
The Tattooist is a 2007 New Zealand horror film directed by Peter Burger and starring Jason Behr, Nathaniel Lees, Michael Hurst and Robbie Magasiva among others.
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The Thing (1982 film)
The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.
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The Untold Story
The Untold Story is a 1993 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Herman Yau and starring Danny Lee and Anthony Wong, with the former also serving as the film's producer.
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The Wailing (2016 film)
The Wailing is a 2016 South Korean horror film written and directed by Na Hong-jin and starring Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min and Chun Woo-hee.
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The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Christopher Lee.
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The Witch (2015 film)
The Witch (stylized as The VVitch, and subtitled A New-England Folktale) is a 2015 folk horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial debut.
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The Woman in the Window (1944 film)
The Woman in the Window is a 1944 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, and Dan Duryea.
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Theme (narrative)
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.
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Thesis (1996 film)
Thesis (Tesis) is a 1996 Spanish horror-thriller film.
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Thirst (2009 film)
Thirst (literally "bat") is a 2009 horror film written, produced and directed by Park Chan-wook.
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Tim Lucas
Timothy Ray Lucas (born May 30, 1956) is an American film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter and blogger, best known for publishing and editing the video review magazine Video Watchdog.
Timbre
In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
Titane
Titane is a 2021 body horror psychological drama film written and directed by Julia Ducournau.
To Catch a Virgin Ghost
Sisily 2 km, released internationally as To Catch a Virgin Ghost, is a 2004 South Korean horror-comedy film about a gang that steals a large diamond and escapes to a small town named Sisily, where they encounter deceitful villagers with dark pasts.
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Tombs of the Blind Dead
Tombs of the Blind Dead is a 1972 Spanish-Portuguese horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio.
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Toshiharu Ikeda
(23 February 1951 – 26 December 2010) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who worked in pink film and mainstream cinema.
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Train to Busan
Train to Busan is a 2016 South Korean action horror film directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee and Kim Eui-sung.
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Transgressive art
Transgressive art is art that aims to outrage or violate basic morals and sensibilities. Horror film and Transgressive art are film genres.
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Trial Run (1984 film)
Trial Run is a 1984 New Zealand film directed by Melanie Read starring Annie Whittle.
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Trope (cinema)
In cinema, a trope is what The Art Direction Handbook for Film defines as "a universally identified image imbued with several layers of contextual meaning creating a new visual metaphor".
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Trouble Every Day (film)
Trouble Every Day is a 2001 French erotic horror film directed by Claire Denis and written by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau.
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Troublesome Night (film series)
Troublesome Night (Chinese: 陰陽路) is a comedy horror anthology film series from Hong Kong.
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Tsutomu Miyazaki
was a Japanese serial killer who murdered four young girls in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture between August 1988 and June 1989.
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Tumbbad
Tumbbad is a 2018 Hindi-language folk horror film directed by Rahi Anil Barve.
Ugetsu
Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit. "Rain-moon tales") is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō.
Underground film
An underground film is a film that is out of the mainstream either in its style, genre or financing. Horror film and underground film are film genres.
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Universal Classic Monsters
Universal Classic Monsters (also known as Universal Monsters and Universal Studios Monsters) is a media franchise based on a series of horror films primarily produced by Universal Pictures from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Uruvam
Uruvam is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language horror film, directed by G. M. Kumar.
Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll (born 22 June 1965) is a German filmmaker.
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
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Vatican City
Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.
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Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal).
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Veneno para las hadas
Veneno para las hadas (Poison for the Fairies) is a 1984 Mexican supernatural horror film that was written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
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Versus (2000 film)
is a 2000 Japanese zombie action film directed and co-written by Ryuhei Kitamura.
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Vicente Aranda
Vicente Aranda Ezquerra (9 November 1926 – 26 May 2015) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Video nasty
Video nasty is a colloquial term popularised by the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVALA) in the United Kingdom to refer to a number of films, typically low-budget horror or exploitation films, distributed on video cassette that were criticised for their violent content by the press, social commentators, and various religious organisations in the early 1980s.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Violence
Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.
Welbeck Publishing Group
Welbeck Publishing Group, formerly Carlton Publishing Group, is a London-based independent book publisher of fiction, narrative and illustrated non-fiction, as well as gift and children's books.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. Horror film and Western (genre) are film genres.
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Western film
The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier." Generally set in the American frontier between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, the genre also includes many examples of stories set in locations outside the frontier – including Northern Mexico, the Northwestern United States, Alaska, and Western Canada – as well as stories that take place before 1849 and after 1890. Horror film and Western film are film genres.
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What We Do in the Shadows
What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 New Zealand mockumentary horror comedy film written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi and the first installment in the ''What We Do in the Shadows'' franchise.
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Whispering Corridors
Whispering Corridors is a 1998 South Korean supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Park Ki-hyung.
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (U.S. title: Who Slew Auntie Roo?) is a 1971 horror-thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, and Sir Ralph Richardson.
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Wild Zero
Wild Zero is a 1999 Japanese comedy horror film directed by Tetsuro Takeuchi.
Willard (1971 film)
Willard is a 1971 American horror film directed by Daniel Mann and written by Gilbert Ralston, based on Stephen Gilbert's novel Ratman's Notebooks.
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Witchcraft
Witchcraft, as most commonly understood in both historical and present-day communities, is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic.
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Witchfinder General (film)
Witchfinder General (titled onscreen as Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General) is a 1968 British period folk horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell and Rupert Davies.
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Wolf Creek (film)
Wolf Creek is a 2005 Australian horror film written, co-produced and directed by Greg McLean and starring John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath and Kestie Morassi.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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Xavier Gens
Xavier Gens (born on in Dunkirk, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Xenomorph
The xenomorph (also known as a Xenomorph XX121 or Internecivus raptus, and simply the alien or the creature)Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that serves as the title antagonist of the ''Alien'' and Alien vs. Predator franchises.
Yongary, Monster from the Deep
Yongary, Monster from the Deep is a 1967 kaiju film directed by Kim Ki-duk, with special effects by Kenichi Nakagawa.
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Yoshihiro Yonezawa
was a Japanese manga critic and author.
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Yotsuya Kaidan
, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zombi 2
Zombi 2 is a 1979 English-language Italian zombie film directed by Lucio Fulci.
Zombie film
A zombie film is a film genre. Horror film and zombie film are film genres and horror films.
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2021 Cannes Film Festival
The 74th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 6 to 17 July 2021, after having been originally scheduled from 11 to 22 May 2021.
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75th Venice International Film Festival
The 75th Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 8 September 2018.
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99 Women
99 Women (translation) is a 1969 women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge, Maria Rohm, Rosalba Neri, Luciana Paluzzi and Herbert Lom.
See also
Horror fiction
- American Horror Story: Asylum
- Analog horror
- Anveshitha
- Ave Satani
- Blossoms 666
- Candle Cove
- Creepypasta
- Danse Macabre
- Dark Fantasy (series)
- Dark Romanticism
- Dark fantasy
- Dreadful Tales
- Edwin Baird
- Final girl
- Forrest J Ackerman
- Grand Guignol
- Gyro's 3D Fear Factory
- Horror convention
- Horror fandom
- Horror fiction
- Horror film
- Killer toy
- Legend (TV channel)
- Monster
- Phantasmagoria
- Psychological horror
- Soulz at Zero
- Spectrum: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art
- Splatterpunk
- Supernatural fiction
- The Black Mass
- The Caves of Mount Chaya
- The Lifted Veil (novella)
- Tortured Souls
- Vampire Hunter D
- Vampire literature
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar
- Weird fiction
- World Horror Convention
- Zombie
- Zombie animal
- Zuvembie
Horror films
- An Illustrated History of the Horror Film
- Archaic mother
- Disability in horror films
- Extreme cinema
- Found footage (film technique)
- Gothic romance film
- History of horror films
- Horror film
- Horror film score
- Indian burial ground trope
- Jump scare
- Lists of horror films
- Race in horror films
- Social thriller
- Video nasties
- Vulgar auteurism
- Zombie film
References
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