The horror genre is a type of fiction that is designed to scare, shock, and unsettle its audience. It often features elements of fear, violence, and suspense, and often includes supernatural elements such as ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural beings. Horror stories are meant to evoke an emotional response in the reader or viewer, often through the use of suspense, jump scares, and graphic violence.
In literature, the horror genre can be traced back to the Gothic novels of the 18th and 19th centuries, which featured dark and sinister themes, atmospheric settings, and supernatural elements. With the advent of cinema, the horror genre became a popular form of entertainment, with classic horror films which is my own hand picked list I hope you guys will really enjoy these phenomenal movies.
- The Exorcist (1973) - A young girl is possessed by a demonic force and her mother seeks the help of two priests to perform an exorcism and save her daughter.
- Psycho (1960) - A secretary steals money from her employer and goes on the run, only to check into a remote motel run by a disturbed young man who begins to stalk her.
- The Shining (1980) - A family moves into a secluded hotel for the winter and the father, who is struggling with writer's block, begins to experience visions and become increasingly unstable.
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - A group of friends on a road trip stumble upon a family of cannibals in rural Texas who use chainsaws to terrorize and kill their victims.
- Halloween (1978) - A young man who was committed to a mental institution after killing his sister on Halloween returns years later to continue his killing spree.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - A group of teenagers are being terrorized in their dreams by a disfigured man with razor-sharp gloves, who is able to kill them in the real world.
- Rosemary's Baby (1968) - A young woman becomes pregnant and begins to suspect that her husband and their neighbors are part of a sinister plot to sacrifice her baby to the devil.
- Alien (1979) - The crew of a spaceship are stalked and killed by a deadly extraterrestrial creature that has infiltrated their ship.
- Jaws (1975) - A small beach town is terrorized by a giant man-eating shark, forcing the chief of police, a marine biologist, and a grizzled fisherman to band together to stop it.
- The Omen (1976) - A couple's son is born under mysterious and ominous circumstances, leading them to suspect that he may be the Antichrist.