Psychological horror refers to a type of scary story or movie that mainly focuses on the characters' minds and mental states, rather than relying on gore or jump scares. It often plays with their emotions, fears, and the things that scare them deep down.
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Focusing more
on psychological horror rather than flat out jump scares, this is a game that will really get under your skin.
The hand - drawn black ink design is very fitting of the game's
psychological horror theme, and there are several key places where there is color other than black.
Almost everything has been improved, here, yet it still feels like a classic survival horror game, one infused with
enough psychological horror to keep it feeling fresh.
«The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker puts the psychology
in psychological horror — each character has layers of twisted story to uncover and the player can choose to help them and steer them towards their happiest ending, or hurt them and lead them somewhere much darker.»
Crafty and mind - bending, «The Endless» is a highly effective
psychological horror thriller in which two ex-cult members return to their apocalyptic commune, only to get trapped into supernatural time loops that challenge their memories of the past.
The «It Comes at Night» breakout star came by Backstage HQ in Brooklyn to discuss the
new psychological horror flick from Trey Edward Shults, offer audition advice, and more.
David Cronenberg is best known
for psychological horror films such as Videodrome and Dead Ringers, and although Maps to the Stars is ostensibly a bleak satire on movie folk, there's an underlying gothic mood that simmers nicely to the boil.
Camera Obscura, the creepy new
psychological horror flick directed and co-written by Aaron B. Koontz, a PTSD - inflicted war photographer named Jack Zeller (Christopher...
Newly and officially un-retired, Steven Soderbergh makes his fledgling foray
into psychological horror with this thriller about a woman (The Crown's Claire Foy) who believes she's being stalked — an anxiety that's thrown into question when she awakes to find herself committed to a mental institution.
The latest title in Konami's
psychological horror series drew huge amounts of attention at Gamescom, thanks to its terrifying «P.T» interactive teaser.
The Bunker is a live -
action psychological horror game starring Adam Brown (The Hobbit) and Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful) with writing talent behind The Witcher, Broken Sword and SOMA.
Upon release, many people loved the game (and much more hated it), but both sides agree that the game was not so much survival horror as it was an action game
with psychological horror elements.
Hulu have been pretty tight - lipped about their new Stephen King - based
psychological horror show, but with JJ Abrams as executive producer, it's looking pretty exciting.
This was the game that brought
psychological horror elements similar to those of the hugely enjoyable Fatal Frame series and so innately tied to PlayStation over to Xbox and it definitely worked.
The oft - delayed and extremely
anticipated psychological horror game Alan Wake has built us up only to tear us down many times before, with more hazy release dates than any high profile release of this generation.
During B - D's recent interview with John Carpenter regarding his
upcoming psychological horror film The Ward (which follows a ten - year dry spell...
In this promising English debut from Park, we have taboos explored through the style of
classic psychological horror, in a story that owes more than just a tip of the cap to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt.
Set in the San Fernando Valley in 1987, writer - director Todd Haynes» 1995 film is
part psychological horror movie and part social commentary.
, a delirious allegory that lets loose various subtexts and criticisms of the Bible (e.g., God as an inconsistently written character) to rewrite scripture as
surreal psychological horror, with the human race as uninvited guests pissing and screwing where they don't belong and their creator as a husband who might be gaslighting his wife.
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