Chapter | Thirty-Four
Genre: Horror
WHAT IS IT?
A movie designed to cause fear or a sense of revulsion or dread, with serious and graphic storylines.
There’s no escape. Horror movies know what spooks you and they abuse this knowledge mercilessly. Like sci-fi, they tap into the zeitgeist and figure out what really keeps you awake at night – the next plague, total war, zombies, scientific breakthroughs backfiring on us – and get inside your head. And that’s why we love them so much. Call it therapy, but we love getting together and sharing what scares us, hoping that a nightmare shared is a nightmare halved. If sci-fi takes the zeitgeist and messes with your head, horror does the same but gets you in your gut.
Horror films are unique ...
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