Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative
emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears.
Horror films often feature scenes that startle
the viewer; the macabre
and the supernatural
are frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy,
supernatural, and thriller
genres. Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares,
hidden fears,
revulsions and terror
of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an
evil force, event, or
personage, commonly of supernatural
origin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include Ghosts, vampires,
werewolves,
demons,
vicious
animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial
killers. Conversely, movies about the supernatural are not necessarily
always horrific.
Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but
also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films. The horror industry is
producing more and more movies with the main protagonist being a female and
having to evolve into a stronger person in order to overcome some obstacle.
This main theme has drawn a larger audience of women movie-goers to the theaters
in modern times than ever historically recorded. Movie makers also go as far as
to integrate women relatable topics such as pregnancy, motherhood, lesbian
relationships, and babysitting jobs into their films in order to gain even more
female oriented audiences.
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