(chiefly Canada, US) A motion picture which entertains by horrifying or frightening the audience.

See horror-struck

Horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated.

plural of horror movie

(video games) A video game genre that emphasizes scarcity of resources (such as health or ammunition refills) in a dangerous setting like that of a horror film.

A genre of horror fiction based around the graphic destruction or alteration of the body.

(fiction) A fictional narrative of distressing events. / (informal) A disturbing rumour. / An unpleasant experience.

(historical, immunology) The now-discredited principle that the body will not harm itself by its own immune reactions.

(now chiefly ironic) A expression of amazement at something controversial.

(slang) Synonym of horror movie