I have been looking into the genre of 'Psychological Horror' and looking at the key conventions of this genre, the sorts of films I will be looking at to get this information are - The Omen, The Ring, Blair Witch Project, Psycho, The Others . .
Psychological horrors connect with the audience is a different way to the usual 'slasher' horror films such as; Saw and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They do this by playing with the mind and on the audiences fears such as the dark or ghosts.
The definition of Psychological horror is -
"Psychological horror" is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot. Psychological horror is different from the type of horror found in "splatter films," which derive their effects from gore and violence, and from the sub-genre of horror-of-personality, in which the object of horror does not look like a monstrous other, but rather a normal human being, whose horrific identity is often not revealed until the end of the work. Well-known examples of psychological fiction include The Sixth Sense and The Blair Witch Project. The Others is a more recent example of a psychological horror film"
This definition was taken from the website http://dictionary.babylon.com/psychological%20horror/.
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