Postmodern horror is a horror film related to the art and philosophy of postmodernism. Examples of this type of film includes George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and John Carpenter's slasher film Halloween.
Characteristics of this genre (starting in the 1960s onwards) includes constituting a violent disruption of the everyday world, transgressions and violated boundaries, questioning the validity of rationality, repudiation of narrative and producing a bounded experience of fear (between the audience and the film).[1]