Mythology of horror

What is horror? Some defines it by its expected emotional effects and says horrormovies are films which scare, frighten or disgust you. I think these are quite unsettled factors, I mean the answers to the question „What scares us?" change by time, by culture, and also by person. So I prefer to define horror by its permanent content. And the permanent content of horror is the monstrous. Most of the times it means a monster, but there are also horror movies with more monsters or with a monstrous world, where the world itself maifestes as a monster.

How to group horrormovies? However I like the idea to division horrors by the...