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The 38 pages that link to Horror film, each with the reason it gives.

• Alfred HitchcockRelated: Psycho helped blur thriller and horror conventions and influenced later horror filmmaking.

• Film genreBroader topic: Horror’s recurring threats and suspense techniques show genre’s role in shaping emotional response.

• Psychological horrorNarrower topic: Psychological horror is one approach within film horror, alongside threats centered on bodies or supernatural forces.

• Point-of-view shotNarrower topic: Horror films use character-aligned views to expose danger or conceal its source.

• Found footageNarrower topic: Found-footage techniques became a recognizable style in horror, especially through simulated recordings.

• Science fiction filmCompared with: Science fiction can use horror, but its defining premise need not be fear.

• DraculaNarrower topic: Dracula became a recurring figure in horror cinema through numerous adaptations.

• Subjective cameraRelated: Restricted viewpoints can conceal threats and make suspense feel immediate.

• NosferatuNarrower topic: The film is an early landmark in cinema’s use of visual form to produce horror.

• Comedy filmCompared with: Horror uses suspense and shock where comedy typically seeks laughter, sometimes blending the effects.

• PsychoNarrower topic: Psycho became a lasting reference point for modern screen horror.

• Stephen KingRelated: The many screen adaptations of King’s work helped make his stories central to modern horror cinema.

• Joan CrawfordNarrower topic: Crawford’s work in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? helped popularize late-career roles for older actresses in horror.

• Slasher filmNarrower topic: Slashers are a commercially influential subgenre within horror cinema.

• Jump scareNarrower topic: Jump scares are a recurring device in screen horror.

• Offscreen spaceBroader topic: Horror often makes unseen threats more frightening than visible ones.

• Genre filmBroader topic: Horror conventions demonstrate how genre can organize mood, imagery, and suspense.

• Guillermo del ToroNarrower topic: Horror supplies recurring imagery and storytelling structures throughout his career.

• Béla LugosiNarrower topic: Lugosi helped establish the screen conventions of the early sound-era horror film.

• The ExorcistNarrower topic: The Exorcist became a landmark studio horror film with broad critical and commercial reach.

• Tod BrowningNarrower topic: Browning's macabre films helped shape early American screen horror.

• Christopher LeeNarrower topic: Lee’s decades of horror performances made him one of the genre’s most recognizable stars.

• Final girlNarrower topic: The archetype belongs to horror’s broader repertoire of characters and suspense.

• Found footage filmNarrower topic: Found footage is especially associated with horror because limited evidence sustains uncertainty.

• Janet LeighNarrower topic: Psycho helped reshape the genre, while Leigh later returned to horror in The Fog.

• Thriller filmCompared with: Horror emphasizes fear and the monstrous; thrillers often emphasize suspense around human threats.

• Boris KarloffNarrower topic: Karloff became one of the genre’s most recognizable stars during its classical studio era.

• Brian De PalmaNarrower topic: Carrie brought De Palma's formal style into a major popular horror success.

• Jamie Lee CurtisNarrower topic: Horror brought Curtis early fame, but comedy and action became substantial parts of her work.

• Wes CravenNarrower topic: Craven’s career illustrates how horror can combine exploitation, suspense, fantasy, and comedy.

• Graphic violenceNarrower topic: Horror films use explicit bodily harm as one way to produce fear and revulsion.

• James WanNarrower topic: Horror is the genre in which Wan established his directorial identity.

• Sarah Michelle GellarNarrower topic: Several of Gellar’s major film roles belong to horror, linking her career to the genre’s late-1990s revival.

• SinnersNarrower topic: Sinners uses horror conventions to turn historical and social tensions into immediate danger.

• Backrooms (feature film)Narrower topic: The feature brings the Backrooms premise into a theatrical horror format.

• Donald PleasenceNarrower topic: The Halloween series made Pleasence a central performer in modern screen horror.

• Mark KermodeNarrower topic: His outspoken enthusiasm for horror has become a defining part of his critical identity.

• Mia GothNarrower topic: Horror became the defining genre of Goth’s leading roles in the X trilogy.