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Helio
Posted: October 11th, 2006, 10:30am Report to Moderator
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Hey guys nearly October 13th, who knows what's the difference between Terror and Horror?
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Hey Helio, I got this off another site... I think it answers everything in detail.

"Terror / Horror. Terror is fear, taken raw. Horror is fear, digested. Let's omit for now the political context, and deal with these things as they affect one individual. Terror is what happens when you are in great and immediate fear (provoked by danger and menace, and perhaps other things). It activates the sympathetic nervous system, initiating what some have called the "fight or flight" response. The body prepares itself for an emergency which is not emergent, but already here. You may sweat, get goosebumps, and have your irises and bronchi dilate. You need to pump air, because your heart is already pumping out more blood. Some blood vessels (like those in the long muscles and skin) enlarge to accommodate more blood, to provide energy where it is needed. Some vessels compress, like those in the G.I. tract, where the sphincters also may contract. Incontinence is observed in some individuals. The sympathetic nervous system includes many nervous pathways, and the endocrine system as well. The adrenal glands pump out epinephrine at a greatly increased rate. Some individuals may be paralyzed by fear ("in a funk"), others may be able to take off running. Some can even fight back (circumstances permitting). Being terrified is a whole body experience.
Being horrified may lead to nausea and nightmares, but we experience it much more cerebrally, as an observer. We are appalled by what we observe, disgusted, sometimes filled with dread and foreboding. It's an emotional experience, but it has more to do with what's happening around us than what's happening to us."


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dogglebe
Posted: October 11th, 2006, 11:01am Report to Moderator
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Did you get this out of the Ravenloft AD&D rulebook?


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Helio
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Are you asking me, Phil?
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dogglebe
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I'm asking Parkster.  The Ravenloft compendiums explain the difference between the two.  I was wondering if this is where he got it.


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tomson
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You can be horrified without being terrorized, but you can't be terrorized without being horrified.



Terror - fear of someday looking in the mirror and looking like your 40!
Horror - waking up one day, look in the mirror and looking like your 40!  
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dogglebe
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Quoted from tomson
Terror - fear of someday looking in the mirror and looking like your 40!
Horror - waking up one day, look in the mirror and looking like your 40!  


Happy - waking up one day, look in the mirror and looking like your forty, saying, "It's good being a guy!"


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George Willson
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From a genre perspective, there isn't a difference here. There actually isn't even a "terror" genre, officially. Some close genres are thriller, suspense, and horror (with the slasher subset), but no terror. Thought I'd throw that out as well...


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dogglebe
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Alfred Hitchcock did thrillers.  He didn't do horror.

Now I'll just sit back and wait for this statement to bite me on the ass.


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Was your question serious, Helio?  The serious answer is there is no difference.  They are synonyms.  Terror and horror are the same thing -- it's like asking what is the difference between dumb and stupid. (Not that you are either of those haha)

The difference between Horror and Thriller is the "reality" factor.

Horror is monsters and ghosts and Jason and stuff.  Things that can not actually happen.

Thrillers involve people.  Technically, everything in Psycho could have actually happened.  I would contend that Scream and IKWYDLS are actually thrillers.

Dogglebe is right about Hitchcock for the most part.  Except for maybe The Birds.  That is a Horror film.


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Did you get this out of the Ravenloft AD&D rulebook?


I got it from a site called The Phrase Finder... or something like that. It was posted by some guy who may have gotten it from somewhere else. Why did you ask? Is it from where you said?


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dogglebe
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I haven't played D&D in a while, but they referred to each.

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MonetteBooks
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This is a tricky question.

DVD's like "The Exorcist", for example, are found in the Horror section, yet this type portrays something that can (and does) really happen to people

Simplistic Horror is usually thought of as teens getting killed off by numbers in a scary location--with little or no reaction to the loss of human life. Monsters, giant vegetable attacks, etc. are often more funny than scary.

Thrillers generally avoid blatant gore. Ghosts can fit in nicely here.

Looks like a category called "Terror" is needed to separate  the fine lines of mixed genres.
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I also noticed that on some DVD's it will be rated whatever for scenes of horror, and then on another DVD there will be scenes of terror. I've always been confused by that thing.


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i always figured the two were seperated as ...Horror is disgust and Terror is fear


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