The Texas Chain Saw Massacre writer / creator Kim Henkel cited " A Modest Proposal " as an influence in scripting his 2011 horror film " Boneboys ," directed by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks.

* A. D. ( film ), a 2010 animated zombie horror film

* Aberration ( film ), a horror movie

Army of Darkness, also titled Bruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness, Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or just Evil Dead III, is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi.

Also from 1981 is the horror film Wolfen making use of the rubble of the Bronx as a home for werewolf type creatures.

In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.

Following an endorsement by horror writer Stephen King, the film slowly began to receive distribution.

* Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, a 2005 horror film

* Bloody Mary ( film ), a 2006 horror film

* The Legend of Bloody Mary, a 2008 horror film

* Dead Mary, a 2007 horror film, called Bloody Mary in Japan

* Bloody Mary ( TV movie ), a 2002 horror television film

* Bloody Mary 3D, a 2011 horror film in 3D

* MARy, a 2008 horror film, aka Bloody Mary

Bride of the Monster is a 1955 sci-fi horror film starring Bela Lugosi, along with Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy and Loretta King Hadler.

Comedy horror is a type of horror film in which the usual dark themes are treated with a humorous approach.

Brooks ' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films ( Young Frankenstein ), westerns ( Blazing Saddles ) and Hitchcock films ( High Anxiety ).

A new research by Benjamin Radford concluded that the description given by the original eyewitness in Puerto Rico, Madelyne Tolentino, was based on the creature Sil in the science-fiction horror film Species.

* Communion, a 1976 horror film ( also called Alice, Sweet Alice ) starring Brooke Shields

In addition to R-rated sex comedies and horror films, cheerleaders became a staple of the adult film industry, starting with Debbie Does Dallas ( 1978 ) and its four sequels.

* The Blood Spattered Bride ( La Novia Ensangrentada ) is a 1972 Spanish horror film written and directed by Vicente Aranda, is based on the text.

The film has reached cult status for its mix of horror, vampirism and seduction with lesbian overtones.

Leto played supporting roles in The Thin Red Line ( 1998 ) and Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ), as well as the lead role in the horror film Urban Legend ( 1998 ), and earned critical acclaim after portraying heroin addict Harry Goldfarb in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream ( 2000 ).

Bava directed what is now regarded as the first Italian giallo film, The Girl Who Knew Too Much ( 1963 ), and his 1965 sci-fi horror film Planet of the Vampires was a thematic precursor to Alien ( 1979 ).

Notable film roles include Apocalypse Now as Engineman 3rd Class " Chef " Hicks, The Conversation, Valley Girl, Promise Him Anything ( TV ), One from the Heart, The Stone Boy, The Missouri Breaks, The Deliberate Stranger ( TV ), and horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film Trauma.

* Octopus Girl, a horror manga created in the 1990s

She was investigating the school's horror mystery of the " Girl in the Rear " when she was murdered.

He is directing episodes of Space Channel's hit comedy / horror series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil and Lost Girl for SYFY Channel and Showcase -- and supervised and directed the far north webisode series YUKONIC online in 2011.

The Girl Who Knew Too Much is considered to be the first giallo film, a film genre with a mixture of thriller, sexploitation and horror conventions.

She also appeared in a number of horror and suspense films from the 1950s until the 1970s including Devil Girl from Mars, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Study in Terror and Vampire Circus.

* The Girl Next Door ( 2007 film ), a horror film based on the Jack Ketchum novel

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

We now have not only what has been called over here the comedy of menace but we also have horror jokes, magazines known as Horror Comics, and sick comedians.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.

Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive ( 1992 ), Evil Dead ( 1981 ), and Club Dread-such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatter and slapstick.

Cutaways are also used often in older horror films in place of special effects.

He also took roles in horror films opposite the late Margaux Hemingway in the thriller Lipstick ( 1976 ) and as a demon in the shocker The Sentinel ( 1977 ).

DC also published crime and horror titles, but relatively tame ones, and thus avoided the mid-1950s backlash against such comics.

Beyond horror, Poe also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes.

He also wrote the horror story The Haunted and the Haunters or The House and the Brain ( 1859 ).

Val Lewton also produced a series of atmospheric and influential small-budget horror films, some of the more famous examples being Cat People, Isle of the Dead and The Body Snatcher.

In short, fear is the ability to recognize danger leading to an urge to confront it or flee from it ( also known as the fight-or-flight response ) but in extreme cases of fear ( horror and terror ) a freeze or paralysis response is possible.

Radcliffe also provided an aesthetic for the genre in an influential article " On the Supernatural in Poetry ", examining the distinction and correlation between horror and terror in Gothic fiction

The most significant of these was H. P. Lovecraft who also wrote an excellent conspectus of the Gothic and supernatural horror tradition in his Supernatural Horror in Literature ( 1936 ) as well as developing a Mythos that would influence Gothic and contemporary horror well into the 21st century.

It not only evokes the atmosphere of horror and dread, but also portrays the deterioration of its world.

The genre also included gory horror movies with sexual overtones, made as " A-movies " ( as opposed to " B movies ").

On similar note, John Carpenter's The Thing ( 1982 ) was also a mix of horror and sci fi, however unlike Alien it was neither a box-office nor critical hit.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating ( also known as " guising "), attending costume parties, carving jack-o '- lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films, as well as the religious observances of praying, fasting and attending vigils or church services.

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers / readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.