Postmodern horror

Postmodern horror is a horror film related to the art and philosophy of postmodernism. Examples of this type of film includes George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and John Carpenter's slasher film Halloween.

Background
Characteristics of this genre (starting in the 1960s onwards) includes constituting a violent disruption of the everyday world, transgressions and violated boundaries, questioning the validity of rationality, repudiation of narrative and producing a bounded experience of fear (between the audience and the film).

Notable postmodern horror films

 * Psycho (1960)
 * Spider Baby (1967)
 * Night of the Living Dead (1968)
 * Targets (1968)
 * The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
 * House (1977)
 * Halloween (1978)
 * Dawn of the Dead (1978)
 * Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
 * The Brood (1979)
 * The Shining (1980)
 * The Evil Dead (1981)
 * The Howling (1981)
 * The Entity (1982)
 * The Thing (1982)
 * Videodrome (1983)
 * The Toxic Avenger (1984)
 * A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
 * Re-Animator (1985)
 * Fright Night (1985)
 * Chopping Mall (1986)
 * Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
 * Evil Dead II (1987)
 * Beetlejuice (1988)
 * Lady in White (1988)
 * Candyman (1992)
 * Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
 * From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
 * Scream (1996)
 * I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
 * Bride of Chucky (1998)
 * The Blair Witch Project (1999)
 * American Psycho (2000)
 * Final Destination (2000)
 * Scary Movie (2000)
 * Party Monster (2003)
 * Shaun of the Dead (2004)
 * Drag Me to Hell (2009)
 * The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
 * ParaNorman (2012)
 * Hotel Transylvania (2012)
 * The Final Girls (2015)
 * Get Out (2017)
 * Us (2019)
 * Midsommar (2019)
 * Last Night in Soho (2021)
 * Nope (2022)

Directors associated with postmodern horror

 * Jordan Peele
 * Robert Rodriguez
 * Ari Aster
 * Sam Raimi
 * Lloyd Kaufman
 * John Carpenter
 * Wes Craven
 * David Cronenberg
 * George A. Romero
 * Stuart Gordon
 * Tobe Hooper
 * Joe Dante
 * Edgar Wright
 * Stanley Kubrick
 * Tim Burton