Supernatural Horror

Supernatural Films: These films include ghosts, apparitions, spirits, miracles, and other similar ideas or depictions of extraordinary phenomena. They can be combined with other genres such as Sci-fi, Fanatasy and Horror.

A few films in the mid-1940s established ghosts and the power of the supernatural as serious horror themes.
For Example, The Uninvited (1944) about a music critic and his sister who purchase a spooky seaside home with vengeful spirits and eerie occurrences.
Codes and Conventions of this Horror - the smell of mimosas, unexplanably chilled rooms, flickering candles, opening and closing creaking doors, supernatural apparitions, the sound of sobbing and moaning in the night.
- Supernatural and Religious Films also became apparent durint the 1940s For example The Enchanted Cottage (1944) -

Low budget Supernatural/Horror films were created in the 1950s through tp the 1970s. The Haunting (1963) based on Shirley Jackson's classic ghost story about a group of folks brought together, by a parapsychologist and two mediums, to spend a night in a spooky haunted Hill House - a family estate in New England.

Ghost stories also abounded in the 1980s and continued to made from then on. The Shining (1980) an ex-alcoholic, failed writer who becomes the caretaker of a huge, wintry Colorado resort and turns psychotic toward his family as he resorts to the same behavior as the former caretaker who axe-murdered his family in the past.