Horror
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Horror is a film and literature genre that plays on the audience's primal fears. The horror genre often overlaps with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres. It often focuses on folklore and religious traditions dealing with death, the afterlife, evil/darkness, and demons.
List of Horror Fandoms
- 28 Days Later
- Black Swan
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Child's Play series
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Dracula
- Evil Dead
- The Faculty
- Final Destination series
- Friday the 13th film series
- Fright Night
- From Dusk Till Dawn film & TV franchise
- The Grudge
- Halloween film series
- Hemlock Grove
- The Hills Have Eyes
- House of Wax
- Gremlins
- I Am Legend
- Jaws
- Jeepers Creepers
- The Lost Boys
- Night of the Living Dead
- A Nightmare On Elm Street film series
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Poltergeist series
- The Purge film series
- Resident Evil series
- The Ring
- Saw series
- Scream series
- Sleepy Hollow
- Stephen King works: Carrie, others
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Thirteen Ghosts
- Underworld series
- Van Helsing
- Zombieland
In Fanworks
In fanworks, an emphasis on horror is associated with gen. (See the Horror tag at Archive of Our Own. Note that of 3660 fanworks, 45% are labeled gen and only 34% are slash; this is an unusual distribution for an archive with a slight majority of works in the slash category.)[1]
However, some popular fanwork tropes are associated with the horror genre:
Resources
- Wikipedia: Horror fiction
- Wikipedia: Horror Film
- Horror Film Wiki
- TVTROPES: Horror Genre
- List of Horror Tropes
