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Welcome to Wikipedia's portal of horror fiction and horror film. Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil or occasionally misunderstood supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror." Horror fiction often overlaps with science fiction and/or fantasy, all of which have sometimes been placed under the umbrella category speculative fiction.

In film, the horror genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear, terror, disgust, or horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, into the mundane world.

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Silent Hill 4: The Room is the fourth installment in the Konami Silent Hill survival horror series. The game was released in Japan in June 2004 and in North America and Europe in September of that same year. Silent Hill 4 was released for the Sony PlayStation 2 and the Microsoft Xbox consoles as well as the PC. A soundtrack release was also made at the same time.

Unlike the previous installments, which were set primarily in the disturbed town of Silent Hill, this game is set in the fictional town of South Ashfield, and is focused on the character of Henry Townshend attempting to escape from his locked-down apartment. He explores a series of supernatural worlds and finds himself in conflict with an undead serial killer.

Originally intended as a spinoff from the main series, Silent Hill 4 features an altered gameplay style with first-person navigation and plot elements taken from previous installments. Upon its release the game received a mostly positive critical reaction despite mixed opinions to the deviations from the original Silent Hill style.

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Michael Myers is a fictional character from the Halloween series of slasher films. He first appears in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) as a young boy who murders his older sister, then fifteen years later returns home to murder more teenagers. In the original Halloween, the adult Michael Myers, referred to as The Shape in the closing credits, was portrayed by Nick Castle for most of the film, with Tony Moran and Tommy Lee Wallace substituting in during the final scenes. He was created by Debra Hill and John Carpenter. Michael Myers has appeared in eight films, as well as novels, a video game and several comic books.

The character is the primary antagonist in the Halloween film series, except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which was not connected in continuity to the rest of the films. Since Castle, Moran, and Wallace put on the mask in the original film, six people have stepped into the role. There have been no actors to portray the character in consecutive films, with a new actor filling the role in each succeeding film; only one actor has portrayed the character more than once. Michael Myers is characterized as pure evil, whether directly in the films, by the filmmakers who created and developed the character over eight films, or random participants in a survey.

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Featured articles: Films: Alien vs. Predator • Cannibal Holocaust • The Cat and the Canary (1927) • Gremlins • Gremlins 2: The New Batch • Halloween (1978) • Halloween II • Halloween III: Season of the Witch • Jaws • Manos: The Hands of Fate • The Mummy (1999) • Night of the Living Dead • The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) • System Shock • Tenebrae • Witchfinder General • Zodiac Games: Silent Hill 4: The Room Writers: Edgar Allan Poe • H.P. Lovecraft • Mary Shelley Characters: Jason Voorhees Creatures: Vampire

Good Articles: Films: Alien (film) • Alien Resurrection • Aliens • Beetlejuice • Bride of Frankenstein • Dracula's Daughter • Eyes Without a Face • Friday the 13th (franchise) • Ginger Snaps (film) • Grindhouse (film) • Grizzly Rage • Halloween (2007 film) • Hannibal • I Am Legend • Jaws 2 • Jaws 3-D • Jaws: The Revenge • King Kong (2005) • Maneater (film) • The Orphanage (2007 film) • Psycho (1960) • Resident Evil • Resident Evil: Apocalypse • Resident Evil: Extinction • Silent Hill • Sleepy Hollow • Snakes on a Plane • The Rocky Horror Picture Show • The Stone Tape • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • Ultime grida dalla savana Games: Doom 3 • F.E.A.R. • Silent Hill 2 • Silent Hill 3 • Silent Hill Homecoming • System Shock 2 • Novels: "Botan Dōrō" • "Frankenstein" • "Yotsuya Kaidan" Franchises: Friday the 13th (franchise) • Halloween (franchise) • Subspecies • Characters: Michael Myers • Randall Flagg

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