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	Psychological horror
		Psychological horror is horror based on knowledge and situation as opposed to horror based on gore and fright.
		Nevertheless, the disgusting elements are often present in psychological horror and often add to the horror.
		Psychological horror films would continue to appear sporadically with 1991's The Silence of the Lambs a later highlight of the subgenre.
	www.jahsonic.com /PsyHorror.html (789 words)

	Psychological horror - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychological horror is horror based on knowledge and situation as opposed to horror based on gore and fright.
		Psychological horror is more common in literature than in modern film, and can also be found in some computer and video games.
		Psychological horror is scary for the viewer because it gives a certain amount of information about some things, but tries to keep all the facts until the last moments of the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychological_horror (267 words)

	Horror film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1960s the genre moved towards "psychological horror", with thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) using all-too-human monsters rather than supernatural ones to scare the audience; Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) was a notable example of this.
		Psychological horror films would continue to appear sporadically, with 1991's The Silence of the Lambs a later highlight of the subgenre (although these films can also be considered crime films or thrillers).
		Other advances in horror were in Japanese animation (for example the gruesome 'guro' animation), as Japanese culture reached new heights of popularity in the West (although the first horror-themed anime had begun appearing in the West by the late 1980s).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horror_film (2806 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Psychological horror" is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot.
		Psychological horror tends to be subtle compared to traditional horror; typically it plays on archetypal shadow characteristics embodied by the Other [2].
		Psychological horror comes from within--it exposes the evil that hides behind normality, while splatter fiction focuses on bizarre, alien evil to which the average viewer can't easily relate.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=psychological_horror (436 words)

	Horror fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader.
		Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror." Horror fiction often overlaps with science fiction and/or fantasy, all of which have sometimes been placed under the umbrella category speculative fiction.
		Modern horror fiction found its roots in the gothic novels that exploded into popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, typified by Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horror_fiction (594 words)

	Horror Film DVDs: Psychological Drama, Suspense & Horror
		Certain to remain one of the greatest haunted-house movies ever made, Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is antithetical to all the gory horror films of subsequent decades, because its considerable frights remain implicitly rooted in the viewer's sensitivity to abject fear.
		Situated somewhere between supernatural horror and lush Victorian melodrama, Twenty years after it swept Australia into the international film spotlight, Peter Weir's stunning 1975 masterpiece remains as ineffable as the unanswerable mystery at its core and a highlight of the '70s Australian New Wave.
		Released in 1972, "The Other" is a psychological horror film with supernatural overtones, including a magic ring and a strange "game" the boys like to play with the help of their grandmother (the talented stage actress Uta Hagen).
	www.caryn.com /biz/movies/halloween/psychological_horror_films.html (2384 words)

	Horror
		Horror as a Genre Unlike science fiction, with which it frequently overlaps, the horror film quickly established itself as a recognizable genre, beginning in 1896 with Georges Méliès's The Devil's Manor.
		In this century, when horrors of many kinds are both common and constant, it is the horror tale that seems to have consistently captured and expressed our collective fears and anxieties.
		And horror has clearly found a home in the cinema; for, of all the mass media, it is film, experienced communally, that has liberated monsters and ghosts by making them at once visible and public.
	research.umbc.edu /~landon/Local_Information_Files/Horror.htm (566 words)

	Nightmare of the Postmortem
		The thoughts that are remaining in one's mind that is of the disturbing picture of that nurse bleeding to the point were she would of died - that I could see her grasping onto her New Testament and the cross around her neck as the fucker drank from her throat like beer from a tap.
		The horrors that would play inside of the psycho phobia as he would remain in the darkness and light.
		That as they would fall asleep, the nightmares that would become of them are that they would walk down the street and to their terror, they would stumble over a corpse that has a hole in their mother fucking head where they can see through.
	www.angelfire.com /goth/nickolaus/postmortem.html (1129 words)

	Journal of Religion & Film: The Sanctification of Fear: Images of the Religious in Horro Films by Bryan Stone
		When horror is at its best, it satisfies our curiosity about both the metaphysical and the psychological unknown while, at the same time, casting an unsettling light on the shadow elements both of the human condition and of the cosmos.
		Unlike the "mad scientist" of early horror films, however, the "madman" of later psychological horror was not a knowledge-seeking compulsive but a raging psychotic -- the victim, says Tudor, of monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attraction.
		Horror in the last century parallels this repression and eroticisation of, and inevitable fascination with, death.
	www.unomaha.edu /jrf/sanctifi.htm (6622 words)

	Hollywood takes on Japanese horror films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		While Hollywood-produced horror movies have been scaring American moviegoers about as much as stale theater popcorn, Japanese filmmakers have been working to truly terrorize their audiences--and the rest of the world is watching.
		American audiences have been just as engaged by the movie's unique intellectual and psychological thrills and plot twists as viewers across the world were.
		Coming next from horror master Nakata, prepare your nerves for the English language adaptation of Dark Water about a woman and her young daughter who move into an eerie spooked apartment.
	www.trendcentral.com /trends/trendarticle.asp?tcArticleId=687 (301 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of Phone (2002)
		That movie set a new frame of reference for everything that would follow in its wake, in the same way that, for example, no 80s slasher could be assessed without orientating it to the ground broken by John Carpenter with his movie Halloween.
		While many of the basic Asian horror formulae are followed, this movie, even though a lot in it has been seen and done before, continues the consistently rewarding tradition of Southeast Asian quality cinema.
		Ringu’s director Hideo Nakata found the right formula to open western viewers up to what makes their horror ticker tick, and serving Phone off as a Ringu rip-off with cell phones for videotapes would be like calling Scream a Halloween plagiary, or Near Dark a Dracula ’31 remake.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/phone.shtml (1081 words)

	Dante Tomaselli Interview
		Dante Tomaselli is a master at psychological horror films as his stories are completely original and bizarre.
		There's a lot of horror that inevitably goes on when your in such early stages of independent fimmaking.
		Horror was also, for one week in 2003, # 7 on the IMDb-Pro, out of all the movies.
	racksandrazors.com /dante.html (2406 words)

	Cat People Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Still admired by fans of classic drama and psychological horror for sympathetic performances, suggestively eerie atmosphere.
		Fans of psychological horror, vintage drama will appreciate this exotic chiller; essential viewing for Lewton/Tourneur devotees.
		Psychologically insightful tale still haunts fans of classic fantasy/horror.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=2333 (170 words)

	JoBlo's Movie Club - 8 Films 2 Die 4
		You probably don't know them because they're eight of the more disgusting horror films, and were deemed way too violent/ disturbing to be shown to the public before.
		I do like some psychological horror, but not this recent trend in psychological means some "ghost" or something.
		It's a horror movie first, the only thing coming close to psychological horror recently from that group of movies is Marebito and A Tale of Two Sisters.
	www.joblo.com /forums/showthread.php?postid=2249188 (2444 words)

	Horror Films
		Most of these sequels or imitators were exploitative and featured shock, gory violence, graphic horror, 'teens in peril,' computer-generated special effects and makeup, and usually a homicidal male psycho who committed a progressive string of gruesome murders on female victims (where brutal killing/slashing/hacking metaphorically substituted for a rape).
		It was followed by two generic horror sequels in 1990 and 1991, and then Bride of Chucky (1998) that introduced a female serial killer doll Tiffany (voice of Jennifer Tilly) to infuse an element of fl comedy.
		Respectability was awarded to the horror film genre when director Jonathan Demme's shocking horror/thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991), starring Anthony Hopkins as the murderous 'Hannibal the Cannibal' and Jodie Foster as a vulnerable FBI agent, walked away with five major Academy Awards - a clean sweep.
	www.filmsite.org /horrorfilms4.html (2815 words)

	Eldritch Words Forum :: Congratulations and an invitation
		True psychological horror is a rare beast indeed, one that I would estimate to be even more rare than undiluted cosmic horror.
		I do think that the notion of psychological horror, however degraded it may be, appeals to more readers than does cosmic horror, and thus is more prevalent than the latter.
		For instance, psychological horror often crosses genres, such as into the field of mysteries and "thrillers".
	www.eldritchdark.com /forum/read.php?1,741,799 (1867 words)

	Clive Barker - Bibliography - Dark Delicacies : Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World's Greatest Horror ...
		Throughout, the editors—Del Howison (co-owner of Dark Delicacies) and leading horror anthologist Jeff Gelb—present perfectly crafted, freshly original horror-fiction fare that is as terrifying as it is chillingly delicious.
		If, as Howison writes in his afterword, "Horror has always been the blues of literature," then this anthology of 20 new tales of the macabre is an all-star concert whose performers work haunting riffs on gutbucket themes.
		Supernatural and psychological horror interweave seamlessly in John Farris's "Bloody Mary Morning," a tale of modern horror with a classic Ambrose Bierce—style twist.
	www.clivebarker.com /html/visions/bib/relat/relbks/Dark_Delicacies.htm (313 words)

	Reel.com: Claustrophobic Suspense Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hypnotic, involving psychological drama about a couple who picks up a hitchhiker on their sailboat.
		Eerie supernatural thriller profiles a British housewife caring for her photosensitive children in a spooky mansion which may or may not be haunted.
		Acclaimed, once-controversial psychological drama detailing a pacifist's reaction when his family is harassed by a gang.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=categories/themes/claustrophobia (923 words)

	RandomSanity :: Horror Message Board :: Part of the Horror.net Horror Network
		Horror films are better with unknowns and fresh new faces.
		i imagine that he would agree with me that there are certainly ways of depicting a view of pedophilia in horror that is both horrific and morally compelling--that, indeed, horror if anywhere is the place to do it--so long as the sympathies lie firmly with the victim rather than with the perpetrator.
		Because it was so scary, and there was no blood or deaths and the horror was all in the viewers' imaginations.
	www.randomsanity.com /cgi-bin/boardpower/discussion.cgi?forum=2&discussion=5 (3844 words)

	Amazon.com: Nazareth Hill: Books: Ramsey Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ramsey Campbell, one of THE greatest horror writers of all time (at that is not just hyberbole folks), has penned one of the most disturbing "haunted" house thrillers I have ever read, and I have read a lot.
		While the house may be creepy and there are a few disturbing scenes involving the spectors and their victims, the novel focuses on the psychological tension between father and daughter more than it does on the eeriness of their home.
		I assume that it is somewhat their presence in the house that is causing this tension, but I don't get that from what Campbell writes; rather, it reads as if their conflicts are the result of the death of the mother and typical teenage rebellion, not the result of a tainted dwelling place.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812539303?v=glance (2081 words)

	Babbage Press -- The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The book that launched the small press horror boom in the 1980s, The Dark Country is arguably the most influential horror collection of the past two decades.
		Etchison has been called "the most original horror writer in America " and "the finest writer of psychological horror this genre has produced".
		In an era when "horror" has come to mean an endless proliferation of cheap, badly written supermarket paperbacks, Etchison's work is like a glimpse into another realm where "horror" can be synonomous with "literature".
	www.babbagepress.com /html/04-6.html (535 words)

	kevin smith eyes a horror film - The Coming Soon! Boards
		I want to see more psychological horror movies that make you think and aren't heavy on gore but more focused on the scares and making you feel a sense of dread and foreboding.
		There are alot of really sucky 'psychological horror' films which are simply crappy horror movies with no scares, toned down so they can get lower ratings.
		All horror films have to have psychological horror in them, and most gorey films do.
	www.comingsoon.net /forums/showthread.php?t=44786&goto=nextnewest (756 words)

	Eerie Horror Film Festival
		Overlooked, underrated, and misunderstood, independent horror movies have been ignored and shunned by the mainstream film industry since it began more than a century ago.
		The EERIE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL was established in order to give filmmakers and writers in the horror /sci-fi genres a venue to have their work showcased to people in the industry.
		Information submitted in connection with the contest will be treated in accordance with these official rules and the Eerie Horror Film Festival’s privacy policy, provided that in the event of any conflict between these official rules and such privacy policy, the terms and conditions of these official rules shall prevail.
	www.eeriehorrorfilmfestival.com /call_for_entries.html (2071 words)

	HorrorMasters.com Horror Stories: A new horror story every night
		HorrorMasters.com: Over 2,700 free horror stories with a new one posted every night -- There are special sections for ghost stories, vampires, monsters, the occult, werewolves, witches, and general horror.
		There are even more horror stories in our main library and PDA library.
		We are now posting links to current poets and their works on our Dark Poetry page.
	www.horrormasters.com (331 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Japanese director embraces horror
		When Hideo Nakata was looking for a way to break into Hollywood, he wanted to avoid the types of horror movies with which he made his name back home.
		But Nakata wanted to get away from horror to escape the "inevitable" comparisons between his Japanese and Hollywood creations, he tells the BBC World Service's The Ticket programme.
		Nakata is one of the directors who have helped establish a new wave of Japanese psychological horror that relies more on the viewer's mind to create terror than graphic or gory visuals.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4400897.stm (504 words)

	HorrorMasters -- Modern Horror
		Hardcopies of these stories are available in the collection Intertwined in Limbo – Tales of Horror and the Outré.
		His influences in the genre are mainly H.P. Lovecraft and Rod Serling, he steers clear of the erotic angle as a horror writer.
		Most recently, he has been working on the just-released Tabloid Purposes II and the soon-to-be-released anthology Quakes and Storms, sure to be the two wildest and most controversial publications of 2005.
	www.horrormasters.com /New_horror.htm (607 words)

	National Novel Writing Month - Forums - Horror & Thriller - Psychological torture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Seems the Big Bad Mummy has decided to psychologically torture the MC's male companion by sexually torturing the MC (yes, this is the same couple who refused to have sex about 700 words ago.
		I think the best way to handle it, if possible within your structure, is to skip back and forth between the main authorial perspective and the perspective of the character undergoing the psychological torture, so that it's possible to see the activity with some hint of dispassion, and then its effects.
		Well, this isn't in my NaNo, but an MC in one of my other novels undergoes a lot of psychological torment in the form of graphic, bloody nightmares that the bad guy more or less makes her dream.
	www.nanowrimo.org /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=27462 (469 words)

	Progressions: Encyclopedia Minerva
		The collected short fiction of Alberta Stone, Minerva's best-loved wit, is ever-popular due to its intelligent insight, sophisticated humor and cut-glass prose.
		Currently running on Screen Mystery, this long and complex psychological horror serial is notable for uniting several of the genre's top names.
		Written by horror novelist and screenwriter Sandrine Matthieu, it is directed by cinéaste-turned-screen-director Tung Wing, and stars his preferred leading lady from his ciné days, Amanda Dimaano.
	www.webcomicsnation.com /progressions/ENCYCLOPEDIA02.php (1334 words)

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