1 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION The genre horror is without a doubt an enduring genre. The audiences in search of chill thrill and stimulation have now a place to attend with. Since the past century, horror films have significantly progressed. Not only in succession but questions arose because of preconceived notions on value has made it impossible for certain critics to register differences among radical divergent films. It has a resemblance in today’s horror film in some degree. Any similarity among horror films is a relatively short-lined affair. A psychoanalytically informed structuralism leads critics theorize that horror films is shaped by a pro-genitive is able to produce and inflexible or unwilling to change “macro text”. The repetitive feelings that horror film provides does satisfy the never changing audience’s desire in primal scenes of horrific imageries thus not only do the horror genres hidebound founding texts prevent films from deviating far from tradition, but the psychology of the audiences is unsuited for drastic changes in the formula horror. When the audiences assimilate the horror film that they watched, they are not reacting into horrific visions, but rather basically responding on the drastic terrors can happen, just like, nearly as old as the reptilian’s brain (Crane, 1994). There is no fixed definition for the genre horror - whereas horror authors and filmmakers' meaning of horror differ from one another. Many tried to completely differentiate horror from its similar and close genres such as science fiction, thriller and suspense. Nevertheless, they always encounter difficulties as the characteristics that referring to one genre can also be found in the other one. Describing horror as a genre that provides tension in viewers is not accurate enough since sci-fi, detective films, crime films, suspense and thriller gives the same feeling. The same goes with the emotion of fear and display of violence, blood and gore, for it can be found in the genres mentioned above. Horror is a broad genre that varies in definition; thus the most accurate is the one that defines horror by each of its categories and subgenres. There are three forms of horror as a genre; the uncanny, a term which was originated from the German concept Das Unheimlich. It is something cannot be explained and strange; the uncanny is defined by the character's reaction - mostly fear - towards something cannot be explained, the marvelous; however, does not require reaction from the character. The FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY - Department of Communication SY 2017-2018 A Textual Analysis on the Portrayal of Children as Evil in Maria Leonora Teresa and Seklusyon Azarcon, Delid, Flores, Vargas, Villareal