Can someone explain to me (no animosity/confrontational tone intended, that’s just my lovely manner), where this comes from? I’ve heard it so many times and, despite being a lifelong horror fan, have never understood why that’s the case. Surely the purpose of a thriller is to ‘thrill’, i.e. generate suspense, whereas a horror film is meant to leave you disturbed/uneasy?
P.S. because if that’s the case, why on Earth is there a separate ‘supernatural horror’ genre?
https://www.cornettfiction.com/super...nre-explained/
Here we go: “horror (pronounced hawr-er) is a genre of fiction whose purpose is to create feelings of fear, dread, repulsion, and terror in the audience—in other words, it develops an atmosphere of horror. The term’s definition emphasizes the reaction caused by horror, stemming from the Old French orror, meaning “to shudder or to bristle.”
https://literaryterms.net/horror/
Don’t see why cinema should be any different.
P.S. because if that’s the case, why on Earth is there a separate ‘supernatural horror’ genre?
https://www.cornettfiction.com/super...nre-explained/
Here we go: “horror (pronounced hawr-er) is a genre of fiction whose purpose is to create feelings of fear, dread, repulsion, and terror in the audience—in other words, it develops an atmosphere of horror. The term’s definition emphasizes the reaction caused by horror, stemming from the Old French orror, meaning “to shudder or to bristle.”
https://literaryterms.net/horror/
Don’t see why cinema should be any different.
I am just The Horror Police.
I always have been.
I've had this discussion maybe a couple dozen times across multiple forums and in person and it's just my thing. I have accepted that it is not everybody's thing. But it's my thing.
My post above explains some of it, though there's a lot more. But again, it really comes down to real-world horrors not being what scares me or what I enjoy in Horror.
An interesting example is one movie that scared the **** out of me - until it didn't - and why. The movie Ils (2006) had me about to poop myself.
WARNING: "the spoilers" spoilers below
Until it was revealed that the villains were human. It was weird how once that happened, I continued to enjoy the movie for what it was but all the fear was gone. I'd've whooped those little bastards asses.