A motion picture which entertains by horrifying or frightening the audience.(noun)
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Use "horror movie" in a sentence
"Under such circumstances, most men would panic: a huge, angry, bulged-eye man of immense strength charging full bore, the sword raised in his hands as he gathered strength to unleash a sundering blow, he was every mad psycho in every bad horror movie ever made."
"The night before, his last day of pre-Vietnam leave, he'd sat with Beverly and his parents, watching a dumb horror movie on TV."