Horror Films

This web page helps put the Horror genre into context. one exaple of how it does this is by informing us of the definition, "unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality." it also discusess the first Horror films and the classic Horror films for example the earliest Horror films: monsters, vampires and many more. It also goes over each decate and how the films changed as time went on and gives examples of these. This pages does more than just put the Horror genre into context.