"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.