What is Psychological horror?
Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot.[1] Psychological horror is different from the type of horror found in “splatter films,” which derive their effects from gore and violence, and from the sub-genre of horror-of-personality, in which the object of horror does not look like a monstrous other, but rather a normal human being, whose horrific identity is often not revealed until the end of the work. Well-known examples of psychological horror fiction include The Sixth Sense and The Blair Witch Project.
