The Dictionary of Film Studies defines the horror film as representing "disturbing and dark subject matter, … See more

Horror is a malleable genre and often can be altered to accommodate other genre types such as science fiction, making some films difficult to categorize.
A genre that emerged in the 1970s, body horror film… See more

Horror films in Asia have been noted as being inspired by national, cultural or religious folklore, particularly beliefs in ghosts or spirits. In Asian Horror, Andy Richards writes that there is a "widespread and engrai… See more

In a study done by Uri Hasson et al., brain waves were observed via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This study used the inter-subject correlation analysis (ISC) method of determining results. It w… See more

Critic Robin Wood was not the first film critic to take the horror film seriously, but his article Return of the Repressed in 1978 helped inaugurate the horror film into academic study as a genre. Wood later stated that … See more