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- ↑ Dead Ringers, A Gender and Genre Analysis: Horror of Personality Archived 2014-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "In Depth: Psychological Effect Of Horror Films". youthvoices.net.
- ↑ Charles Derry, Dark Dreams: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film; A S Barnes & Co, 1977.
- ↑ "Horror-of-personality film - Other early examples include". horrorcrime.com.
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