Conventions Of Psychological Horror

Conventions Of Psychological Horror

I used Horror on Screen to provide information on different sub genres.

Our sub-genre for our main task is going to be psychological horror, more specifically - madness and paranoia. This sub-genre tends to be closely related to slasher horror, as often the mad antagonist kills many characters. The difference is that in psychological, the film does not focus on the deaths of characters, but rather on the madness of the antagonist. Psychological horrors create unease in the audience by using common psychological and emotional fears to generate the most tension possible. By playing on peoples' fears, people can relate to the movie more, making them more sympathetic. Madness and paranoia genre films tend to contain battles inside people's minds or attempt to link events in the real world to how they are feeling mentally.




The Black Cat 1934 was one of the earliest psychological horrors.



Psychological horror developed from the early version s that it could create a greater effect on the audience. New techniques such as caring parents or previous tragedies increases the audience sympathy of the character. In The Conjuring, there are many scenes showing the parents playing with their children, making it more horrific when something happens to the characters.