Genre , horror (Sustika Limbu)

According to wikipedia horror Films are the movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve theme of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Early horror movies are largely based in classic literature of the gothic/horror genre such as Dracula, The phantom of the opera etc. It is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience.


Horror is a genre which gives a feeling of great shock or fear and designed to frighten the audience. It normally relates with dead people, good/bad spirit and supernatural.


Lots of the Asian country makes horror movies, Korean and Japan is one of them. Their movies are easy to stereotype, Most of the antagonist (ghost) in their movie have pale skin, long black hair with a white dress. Lots of American horror movie production makes a films that are similar to Japanese and Korean horror example: The Uninvited (American movie)directed by Michael Grillo which is a remake of South Korean horror, Tales of two sister directed by Kim Ji-woon.


I had done some research in Asian horror and here is some details .

Category: Japanese Horror
As we are mostly focusing on the Japanese horror it is important to find out its origin. Japanese horror focus on the psychological horror and contain themes of many folk religion such as: exorcism and shamanism. The main origin of the Japanese horror seems to be influence by the Japanese folks tale and the era influence by ghost tales. e.g a film called Ju-on: The Grudge

Category: Korean Horror
Korean horror is mostly inspired by the Japanese horror where we can see a similar antagonist (a girl with long black hair wearing a white dress ). Most of the Korean horror film's storyline is connected with the school girl's life.e.g Tail of two sisters and Whispering Corridors.

Category: Thai Horror
Most of the Thai horror focus on the black magic and voodoo. Most of the Asian horror fans prefer Thai horror because they are different and they have got a whole new storyline. They always come up with a new ideas. e.g In a movie called Shutter from the first half of the movie main character start to have a neck problem and at the end of the film we finds out that he is carrying the whole weight of his ex-dead girlfriend over his shoulder. where as in a movie called Art of Devil whole new set of storyline has been introduced which is all about black magic and voodoo.