The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

Sir Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 black-and-white classic Psycho is one of the most compelling horror films ever. Starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, it tells the story of Marion Crane, a secretary ...

Horror, a genre long hated by critics and adored by the public, has always strived to challenge the status quo. Between pushing what can be shown on screen and the sanity of mothers everywhere, the ...

Horror is a very difficult territory for filmmakers because one wrong move can tarnish an entire movie. If a director decides to tone down the scares, they risk boring the audience with an excessively ...

Masked killers and looming specters are scary and all, but sometimes it's whatever's rattling around our skulls that instills the most fear. Psychological horror established itself as a subgenre of ...

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror that is defined by its use of sound, lighting, atmosphere, tension, and the consumer's own psyche to evoke fear. This differs greatly from the standard ...

Reem is an Egypt-based writer and lawyer. Reem can recall spending a big amount of her early childhood watching movies in movie theaters. She is an avid fan of horror movies and is always looking for ...

Because it’s a genre that aims to alter your mood, you could argue that all horror is psychological horror. But that viewpoint misses how certain movies remove their characters’ grasp of reality. If ...