Horror (Genre)

"Horror is a matter of intent, and a matter of content. Anything written to frighten the audience is horror."GURPS Horror pg 4
==The Mechanics of Horror==
It can be totally grounded in reality such as the Black Death or Ebola. It can be the utterly fantastic such Things That Man Was Not Meant to Know.
However, horror is a hard thing to pull off well. Badly done horror more often comes off as Comedy as demonstrated by films like Plan 9 From Outer Space or From Hell it CameWhich could be more accurately called Attack of the Shambling Killer Tree Stump.
Another issue is that time and knowledge can diminish horror.
One of the reasons Victorian horror comes off as "quaint" is it was nothing when compared to the real life horror of WWI and especially WWII. For example, the horror of Doctor Moreau pales when compared to that of Doctor Josef Mengele. The beings of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos looks weak when compare to modern fiction which have given us the Time Trapper, Anti-Monitor, and Mad James Jaspers.
Horror can appear in any setting.
==Victorian Horror==
* Halloween Special: Frankenstein (1818)
* Halloween Special: Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde (1886)
* Halloween Special: Dracula (1897)
*Nightmare: The Birth of Victorian Horror (1996) series: the story behind Frankenstein, Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, Dracula, and The Hound of the Baskervilles
==Other types of Horror==
*The Scariest Film Ever Made ISN'T a Horror Film
*Secret4Studio
*Th3Badd3st: Five Nights at Freddy's, Nintendo, and internet culture
*Film Theory: You Are Being Erased... — analog and digital horror
==See Also==
*Classic: Monsters
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Horror