Hitchcock And American Psycho

There remain many doubts over the theory of “genre”, the word comes from the Latin for “class” used widely across both media and literature in order to categorise the works. As with the majority of genres, “horrors” have been altered and manipulated over time in order to coincide with the time period. With this being said, two films particularly enforce this post-modern “horror” and yet both contain an array of sub-genres, mutating “genre” into a more complex idea. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho along with Mary Harron’s American Psycho are both post-modern “horrors” with a collection of sub-genre’s attached to them, leading the audience to question the originally believed “horror” genre. Horror-fiction generally manipulate the emotions of their