Talk:Psychological horror

message: There is a redirection from Psychological thriller to Psychological horror. In all fairness, these are two very distinct and different genres. N3m6 18:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Psychological Thriller vs. Psychological Horror vs. Horror-of-personality Genre

message: It seems to me that Psychological horror and Psycho (genre) are distinct, though they may sometimes overlap.  The former can be supernatural, whereas the latter would rarely or perhaps never be so.  The latter may be gory, whereas the former rarely is. Schizombie 21:48, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Psycho (genre) vs. Psychological Horror

message: ...although I did cut out the following:
I went back into the section that Runa27 edited pretty heavily before (The one that said "Psychology can be applied to the viewer either through subconsious of behaviorist perspectives....)  What remained still felt pretty original research/speculation, ie "Psychological horror plays more on the psyche than to the instinctual reaction to violence. By confusing and/or reaching the subconsious of the viewer, psychological horror is able to have a deeper effect that is more socially acceptable than a gory film, yet is also nearly universal in impact. This genre is similar to the psychological thriller in that it uses psychology, but in the psychological thriller, the psychology is often applied to a character as opposed to the viewer."
My reaction to that (with all due respect to the original writer) was Wha?  
I don't think you can confuse the subconscious of the viewer--conscious is what you're aware of, subconscious usually means preconscious (just below the surface) or unconscious (you're not aware of it at all)-- I think s/he meant unconscious.  Anyway, you can't confuse it, as far as I know.  You can be unhappy with what's in there, and be confused at the conscious level when information in your subconscious/unconscious conflicts with information in your consciousness--which makes you uncomfortable (ie creates cognitive dissonance), thereby forcing the ego to employ defense mechanisms to reduce dissonance between the two.  
Psychological horror creates dissonance between what we want to believe we are and what we really are (Freud would have said we shove the things we can't stand to cope with about ourselves into the sub/unconscious; Jung would say we drive it into the shadow part oneself).  Freud argued that material shoved into the unconscious had a strong effect on our behaviour, thoughts, feelings and that it bubbled up through dreams, wishes, etc.  I'm not sure what he would have said about our draw to psychological horror--that the id is enticed by its true wishes while the superego struggles to force us to conform to the rules of society, which leaves the ego trying to reconcile them both with the reality principle?  So maybe that the id is what pulls us toward it?  I know Jung thought the draw was a need to individuate toward the Self.
Anyway, I rewrote most of that section using resources and citations.  I left some of the stuff I disagreed with at the bottom because the person who wrote it may well have citations, so it seemed like the right thing to do to leave it for a while if that person wanted to add them.  Obviously, I tagged it.
Katsesama 07:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Makes It Effective 

message: FYI, I deleted the link to http://www.archetypewriting.com earlier this month as part of a spam cleanup of archetypewriting.com links. These were spammed by a "single-purpose editor", {{subst:User|65.24.220.106]], making no other contributions to Wikipedia. 
The link did not seem to meet the External Links Guideline -- the section "Links normally to be avoided":
:"1. Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article."
:"3. Links mainly intended to promote a website."
:"11. Links to blogs and personal webpages, except those written by a recognized authority."
--A. B. (talk) 20:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  archetypewriting.com link deletion earlier this week 

message: isn't a Psychological horror  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.76.28.122 (talk) 15:26, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: no, its a gore movie, it doesn't "plays" with your mind, although it has some deeper history, unlike other gore films  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.164.86.133 (talk) 23:47, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Saw

message: the movie is far from being psycological horror. The games, however, are extremly different from the movie: these last make you feel related with the main character in one way or another, making you feel much more than just the natural apathy we feel for seeing a girl in a fire (which is the thing the movie does).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.164.86.133 (talk) 23:53, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silent Hill 

message: 
This list isn't well founded as example of 'notable' exmaples but contains too many minor examples.  Moved to talk so we can select a smaller, better, selection. RJFJR (talk) 18:36, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable examples

message: Whoever added Toy Story and Life of Brian, it was funny for a while... Skullbird11 (talk) 13:58, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: About the list...

message: , I created supernatural horror film earlier this month. It is especially compared to psychological horror film, for which there is no article. I found this, and I think the "Film" section, being larger than the other sections, can warrant its own article also. Would you have any issue with my migrating the content to a new article and creating a summary paragraph under the original section heading? Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 17:36, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Psychological horror film 

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