Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot. Psychological horror is different from the type of horror found in "splatter films," which derive their effects from gore and violence, and from the sub-genre of horror-of-personality, in which the object of horror does not look like a monstrous ot...
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Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot. Psychological horror is different from the type of horror found in "splatter films," which derive their effects from gore and violence, and from the sub-genre of horror-of-personality, in which the object of horror does not look like a monstrous other, but rather a normal human being, whose horrific identity is often not revealed until well into the work, or even at the very end. Well-known examples of psychological horror films include the Ring Trilogy, The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project, The Haunting in Connecticut, Repulsion, Psycho, Misery, The Hand, Rosemary's Baby, The Shining, The Other, The Others, Jacob's Ladder, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Paranormal Activity and Salad Fingers
Psychological horror tends to be subtle compared to traditional horror and typically...
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