Psychological horror refrains from using mystery elements and characters with unstable, unreliable, or disturbed psychological states to enhance the suspense and horror.
The subgenre frequently overlaps with the related subgenre of psychological thriller , and it often uses mystery elements and characters with unstable , unreliable , or disturbed psychological states to enhance the suspense and horror of the setting and plot and to provide an overall unpleasant , unsettling , or distressing atmosphere .
Psychological horror
refrains from using
mystery elements and characters with unstable, unreliable, or disturbed psychological states
often uses