2. Horror films are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They usually feature frequent jump scenes that make the viewers jump and startled through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre. History of horror films!!!! Horror films deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden worst fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown The first horror movie, only about two minutes long, was made by imaginative French filmmaker Georges Melies,