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Where is the horror?


I saw it and I ask you where is the horror?
99% of the movie is like a vacation recording. Boring as hell.

The only good part was one of the victims face, that was good makeup.
If this is horror then every movie ever made is horror.

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I have seen your reaction to films tagged horror in the past, and I think the best reply is defining what horror really means. Here is Webster's definition of the word:

Definition of HORROR
1
a : painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay <astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me — H. G. Wells>
b : intense aversion or repugnance
2
a : the quality of inspiring horror : repulsive, horrible, or dismal quality or character <contemplating the horror of their lives — Liam O'Flaherty>
b : something that inspires horror
3
plural : a state of extreme depression or apprehension
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Examples of HORROR

There was a look of horror on her face.
The crowd watched in horror as the fire spread.
His friends were shocked by the horror of his death.
His crimes were unspeakable horrors.
His memoirs recount the horrors of the war.

Origin of HORROR
Middle English horrour, from Anglo-French *orur, from Latin horror action of bristling, from horr&#275;re to bristle, shiver; akin to Sanskrit hars&#803;ate he is excited
First Known Use: 14th century
Related to HORROR
Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, dreadfulness, frightfulness, ghastliness, grisliness, gruesomeness, hideousness, horridness, monstrosity, repulsiveness
Antonyms: heaven, paradise

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