horror movie

English

Noun

horror movie (plural horror movies)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) A motion picture which entertains by horrifying or frightening the audience.

Synonyms

• horror film, horror flick

Hyponyms

• creature feature
• slasher movie

Related terms

• horror story

Translations

motion picture which horrifies or frightens

• Arabic: فِيلْمُ رُعْبٍ m (fīlmu ruʕbin)
• Azerbaijani: qorxu filmi
• Belarusian: фільм жа́хаў m (filʹm žáxaŭ)
• Bulgarian: филм на у́жасите m (film na úžasite)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 恐怖片 (hung² bou³ pin^3-2), 鬼片 (gwai² pin^3-2)

  Mandarin: 恐怖電影／恐怖电影 (zh) (kǒngbù diànyǐng), 恐怖片 (zh) (kǒngbùpiàn)

• Danish: horrorfilm c, skrækfilm c
• Dutch: horrorfilm (nl) m, griezelfilm (nl) m
• Esperanto: horora filmo
• Estonian: õudusfilm, õudukas
• Faroese: ræðufilmur
• Finnish: kauhuelokuva (fi), kauhuleffa
• French: film d’horreur (fr) m, film d’épouvante m
• Galician: filme de terror m
• German: Horrorfilm (de) m, Gruselfilm m
• Greek: ταινία τρόμου f (tainía trómou)
• Hindi: वीभत्स फ़िल्म f (vībhats film)
• Hungarian: horrorfilm (hu)
• Icelandic: hryllingsmynd f
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• Irish: scannán uafáis
• Italian: film horror
• Japanese: ホラー映画 (ホラーえいが, horā eiga)
• Kazakh: қорқынышты фильм (qorqynyşty film)
• Korean: 공포 영화(恐怖映畫) (gongpo yeonghwa), 무서운 영화 (museoun yeonghwa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: filma tirsê (ku)

• Latvian: šausmu filma f
• Lithuanian: siaubo filmas m
• Macedonian: филм на ужа́сите m (film na užásite), хо́рор-филм m (hóror-film)
• Maltese: film tal-orrur m, film tal-biża’ m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skrekkfilm m, grøsser

  Nynorsk: skrekkfilm m, grøssar

• Persian: فیلم ترسناک (fa) (film-e tarsnâk)
• Polish: film grozy (pl) m, horror (pl) m
• Portuguese: filme de terror m
• Romanian: film de groază n
• Russian: фильм у́жасов (ru) m (filʹm úžasov), (colloquial) ужа́стик (ru) m (užástik), хо́ррор (ru) m (xórror)
• Slovene: grozljivka (sl) f
• Swahili: filamu ya kutisha
• Swedish: skräckfilm (sv) c, skräckis (sv) c, rysare (sv) c
• Turkish: korku filmi
• Ukrainian: фільм жа́хів m (filʹm žáxiv)
• Vietnamese: phim kinh dị