Research on Psychological Horror

What is a Psychological horror?

It is one of the sub genre of horror fiction. These are often based on video games [as a narrative for example 'Resident Evil' (1996)]. This mainly relies on the characters' fears and emotional instability to up the tension for the audiences. There even novels based films in this genre for example Psycho (film) is directed by Alfred Hitchcock which is actually based on the novel with the same title by Robert Bloch.

Some examples of psychological horror are:-

• Black Swan
• The Blair Witch Project
• Stalker
• The Mirror
• Sinister
• The Omen
• Paranormal Activity
• 13
• The Ring