Talk:Horror and terror

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This article was nominated for deletion on November 17, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

Contents 1 VfD 2 This article is completely false 3 Not just monsters 4 Parts of this article are wrong

[edit] VfD

On May 12, this article was nominated for deletion. The discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Horror (emotion). The result was keep. —Xezbeth 04:58, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] This article is completely false

Surely 'terror' becomes before 'horror'. E.g.: you spend a night in a haunted house and are 'terrified', you then open the closet and find to your 'horror' that there is a skeleton in it.....This is the build up of all horror films: the scary terrifying build up and then the sickening moment of horror when the monster, ghost, body, killer is revealed. Terror is the anticipation, Horror is the pay-off. Colin4C 18:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not just monsters

You can experience horror waiting or other things too. For Example: "John sat in horror as the police questioned his neighbors, he didnt want to get caught for what he did."

[edit] Parts of this article are wrong

Radcliffe was not a Gothic Horror writer, because the genre is named Gothic Fiction AND she established a new subgenre: Terror Gothic. Terror is the systematic and apparently indiscriminate use of real or threatened violence, especially physical, to spread fear and horror with the intent of making a population compliant. Horror, on the other hand, is the reaction to appriations, and so it can more likely be seen as something scary. Violence, whether it is physical or psychical, scarcely occurs and should be termed terror.