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n. A motion picture which entertains by horrifying or frightening the audience.
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- Redirect Horror film
"Horror Movie" was the second single from the Skyhooks album Living in the Seventies and was their first number-one single in Australia, staying there for two weeks in March 1975.
The single was greatly helped along by the band's appearance on the then-new ABC pop music TV show Countdown.
Along with "Women in Uniform", "Horror Movie" is widely recognised as one of the Skyhooks' signature tracks. The song itself, written by bass player Greg Macainish, is about how the world has taken a turn for the worse with all of the chaos in society, to the point where watching the nightly TV news is like watching a horror movie.
The song remains popular as a Halloween song in the United States, and appears on the compilation album Elvira Presents Haunted Hits.
In 1998 Australia Post issued a special edition set of twelve stamps celebrating the early years of Australian rock and roll, featuring Australian hit songs of the late 1950s, the 1960s and the early 1970s.
"Each of them said something about us, and told the rest of the world this is what popular culture sounds like, and it has an Australian accent."
One of the stamps featured was the "Horror Movie" stamp.
Usage examples of "horror movie".
She didn't want to say that the house could be a set in a horror movie.
In all his years running a studio he'd never green-lit a horror movie, or anything with that kind of supernatural edge.
George's eyes would be blank and terrible, the eyes of a zombie in a horror movie.
You won't like it because it's a horror movie, but please read it and tell me if it's any good.
She might be young, she might be a woman, but she was an expert in dealing with weapons of mass destruction, an authority in a field that was more frightening than the most terrifying horror movie.
Cohen said he was fronting this horror movie shooting in Griffith Park, and this Sid Frizell guy who was directing it shot stag films on the side.
Part of her mind still denied it, and another part tried to hide away in prayer and faith, but as with a person at a horror movie, face covered by denying hands, her eyes still peeked sideways to see what was coming, the horror all the worse because of her useless retreat from it.
When he thought about it these days (which was often), he pictured a bloated creneliated thing that looked like a radiation-baked giant brain in a fifties drive-in horror movie.