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Dear Mark, I was referring more to the narrative structure of horror films like "The Others" and "Jang Hoa, Hong Reon", and not necessarily the philosophical-humanistic aspects any studies of the genre have tended to focus on as well. Maybe it all comes from my academic training as a former Theatre major during undergraduate days. I guess that Antonin Artaud's ideal of a theatre of cruelty always comes to mind whenever horror is viewed for me. In fact, I would probably call the horror film genre a "cinema of cruelty" if one tries very hard to stretch the term that way, in the line of which Artaud was advocating an extremely visceral theatre that can challenge and overload the senses of its audience. Kevin