Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that startlethe viewer; the macabreand the supernaturalare frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy,supernatural, and thrillergenres. Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terrorof the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of anevil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernaturalorigin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include Ghosts, vampires,werewolves,demons,vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers. Conversely, movies about the supernatural are not necessarily always horrific.
Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films. The horror industry is producing more and more movies with the main protagonist being a female and having to evolve into a stronger person in order to overcome some obstacle. This main theme has drawn a larger audience of women movie-goers to the theaters in modern times than ever historically recorded. Movie makers also go as far as to integrate women relatable topics such as pregnancy, motherhood, lesbian relationships, and babysitting jobs into their films in order to gain even more female oriented audiences.
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