Collection: Horror

Horror films seek to elicit fear in its audiences for entertainment purposes. They evoke viewers' nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown and macabre.

Initially inspired by literature from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley, horror has existed as a film genre for more than a century; and sometimes overlapping with the fantasy, supernatural fiction, and thriller genres.

Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, extraterrestrials, vampires, werewolves, demons, Satanism, evil clowns, gore, torture, vicious animals, evil witches, monsters, giant monsters, zombies, cannibalism, psychopaths, natural, ecological or man-made disasters, cults and serial killers.