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A horror film is a movie that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated
heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking ones audiences. Inspired by literature from
authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley, the horror genre has existed for
more than a century. The macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also
overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres.
Horror films often deal with viewers' nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown.
Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage into
the everyday world. Prevalent elements
include ghosts, extraterrestrials, vampires, werewolves, demons, satanism, gore, torture, vicious
animals, evil witches, monsters, zombies, cannibals, psychopaths, natural or man-made
disasters, and serial killers.[1]

The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American found footage psychological horror film written,
directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Snchez. The film tells the fictional story of
three student filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard) who hike
in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend
known as the Blair Witch. The three disappear, but their video and sound equipment (along with
most of the footage they shot) is discovered a year later; the "recovered footage" is the film the
viewer is watching.

Alien is a 1979 British-American science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and
starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John
Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial
creature that stalks and attacks the crew of a spaceship. Dan O'Bannon wrote the screenplay
from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett, drawing influence from previous works of science
fiction and horror. The film was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill through
their Brandywine Productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Giler and Hill made revisions
and additions to the script. Shusett was executive producer. The eponymous Alien and its
accompanying elements were designed by Swiss artist H. R. Giger, while concept artists Ron
Cobb and Chris Foss designed the human aspects of the film. Alien launched
the Alien franchise and is chronologically the first of the main series, with the prequel series set
in an earlier timeframe.

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http://www.horrorfilmhistory.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny_in_horror_films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distributed_by_Netflix
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http://www.horrorfilmhistory.com/