"Horror Movie" redirects here. For the Skyhooks song, see Horror Movie (song)
Max Schreck as Count Orlok in the 1922 film 💋 Nosferatu. Critic and historian Kim Newman declared it as a film that set the template for the horror film.
Horror is 💋 a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.[2]
Horror films often explore dark 💋 subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk 💋 beliefs.
Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious 💋 beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram 💋 Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the 💋 release of Dracula (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, splatter films, supernatural 💋 horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produced worldwide, varying in content and style between regions. Horror is particularly 💋 prominent in the cinema of Japan, Korea, Italy and Thailand, among other countries.