DEFINITION OF HORROR
The horror is a feeling caused by something creepy, horrifying or terrifying . It is an emotion linked to the most intense fear.
For example: "I was horrified to see the car of my son destroyed" , "Horror in Santa Maria: a man killed three co-workers and then committed suicide" , "The faces of horror of the public when noticing that the acrobat did not moved after the fall they realized the seriousness of the situation . "
Although horror is usually associated with fear , it is a feeling that goes beyond, unlike terror . Horror is, in essence, an unpleasant impression provoked by a frightening element (a situation, an image, a subject).
Sometimes, horror is an aversion to something or someone. A person can affirm that the spiders generate horror because, when encountering one of them, he feels disgust or rejection and the need to move away immediately.
In the field of art, horror and terror are often used as synonyms. There are books and movies designed to horrify or terrorize people through macabre stories and gruesome scenes (with murders, tortures, etc.). However, some specialists distinguish between the genre of horror (which causes physical sensations) and the genre of terror (more linked to the psychological).
"Hostel" is an example of a horror film . Released in 2005 , this proposal directed by Eli Roth presents mutilations in the foreground and exhibits a huge amount of blood that impacts the viewer.
In the colloquial language, finally, the idea of horror is used in the plural ( horrors ) to describe something abundant or numerous : "I suffered horrors while awaiting the result of the examination" , "We had horrors in the grandmother's house" .a
