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- 1. History of Horror By Dean Houghton
- 2. About Horror Horror has always been a part of human life. People have always loved getting a buzz out of being scared and then being able to laugh. People like to be scared. That's why they go to the cinema and watch films in a safe environment. Horror is an ancient art form. We have tried to terrify each other with tales which trigger the less logical parts of our imaginations for as long as we've told stories.
- 3. Roots Of Horror HORROR• noun 1) an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. 2) a thing causing such a feeling. 3) intense dismay. 4) informal a bad or mischievous person, especially a child.— ORIGIN Latin, from horrere ‘shudder, (of hair) stand on end’. As long as there have been stories, there have been stories about the Other, the unrealities we might categorise today as speculative fiction. Every culture has a set of stories dealing with the unknown and unexplained, tales that chill, provoke and keep the listener wondering "what if..?" Horror films are the present-day version of the epic poems and ballads told round the fires of our ancestors