Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character's 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 ...
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Computer games:
- Manhunt 2 ,
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem ,
- Silent Hill 3 ,
- Silent Hill 4: The Room ,
- Manhunt ,
- Silent Hill 2 ,
- Silent Hill ,
- Rule of Rose ,
- Condemned 2: Bloodshot ,
- The Suffering
Films of this genre:
- Gettin Hitched ,
- Wingrave ,
- Vindication ,
- Cinco ,
- Session 9 ,
- The Haunting ,
- House Hunting ,
- Blood Shack ,
- In The Dark Half
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Also known as:
- Psychological Horror