In the same way that Supernatural Horror appeals to that part of us that cannot, or will not, accept death, Occult Horror speaks directly to the part that cannot comprehend how as great a being as man simply cannot control his immediate environment, let alone his destiny (and it is traditionally men in terms of the Occult Horror story, though Neil La Bute made a brave stab in his ultimately failed THE WICKER MAN remake, perhaps partly inspired by HammerвЂ™s underrated THE WITCHES). While Possession Horror is often the preserve of the exoteric вЂcrisis of faithвЂ™ narrative and Supernatural Horror dwells in the lair of pre-monotheistic animism, Occult Horror explores the mystic, the arcane, the pagan and the satanic. Occult Horror is almost always вЂsupernaturalвЂ™ or вЂmarvellousвЂ™ in TodorovвЂ™s terminology that is to say there are вЂirrationalвЂ™ elements that are, though inexplicable, accepted as вЂrealвЂ™ within the context of the narrative. The Occult Horror sub-genre, however, specifically deals with the esoteric and magickal (as differentiated from the magic of Paul Daniels) that exists outside the exoteric realm of mainstream religion. Occult literally means вЂhiddenвЂ™ so all Horror could be described as occult in the sense that all Horror deals with things that are suppressed,В repressed, traditionally denied or habitually ignored.

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