Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
To me, the horror genre is the genre of non-denial. It's about admitting that there is evil in the world and recognizing that there is evil within us and that we're not in control and that the things that we are afraid of must be confronted in order for us to relinquish that fear.
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.
For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.
Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.