Horror films are films literally made to scare people - to invoke our worst fears, to make us jump, incite panic, dread, alarm, disgust, fright, captivating us with tales of the forbidden, the hidden, the unknown, the unthinkable. What repels some from the genre of horror, is what attracts and enthralls others.
Many overlap into the thriller genre - that ability to makes us jump, and hybrid with several other genres - supernatural, fantasy, science fiction, making it an incredibly versatile genre and perhaps the most personal too. The horror films that scare us the most are the ones that most directly affect us, dealing with our own personal fears, what genuinely frightens us as people, not only viewers.
The conventions of horror and literally all the things you think when told to think of horror: blood, death, murder, evil, ghosts, torture, violence, screams, vampires, werewolves, curses, gore, zombies, disease, cannibals, demons, just to name a few.
As the horror genre has progressed, the more aggressive the genre has had to become to scare a seemingly unscareable generation of horror viewers. The Silence of the Lambs, Jaws, Psycho and Seven were all previously horror films but are now thrillers due to a want from the audience for more gore, supernatural and jump scenes. Newer horror films have to try harder to get that scare, leading to the creation of darker, more inventive and gory horror - Wes Craven's New Nightmare, the Saw films, The Strangers, The Ring etc.
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