The horror film is defined by The Dictionary of Film Studies as representing "disturbing and dark subject matter, seeking to elicit responses of fear, terror, disgust, shock, suspense, and, of course, horror from their … 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 … See more

Psychological effects
In a study done by Uri Hasson et al., brain waves were observed via functional magnetic resonance imaging See more

• Dixon, Wheeler Winston. A History of Horror. (Rutgers University Press; 2010), ISBN 978-0-8135-4796-1.
• Steffen Hantke, ed. American … See more

In his book Caligari's Children: The Film as Tale of Terror (1980), author Siegbert Solomon Prawer stated that those wanting to read into horror films in a linear historical path, citing historians and critics like Carlos Clarens noting that as some film audiences at a time … See more

Asian horror films
Horror films in Asia have been noted as being inspired by national, cultural or religious See more

In film criticism
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 he was … See more