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The phrase "affecting horror" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of horror that has a strong emotional impact on the audience or characters involved.
Example: "The film's affecting horror left the audience in stunned silence, grappling with the weight of its themes long after the credits rolled."
Alternatives: "moving terror" or "poignant fear".
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Often the most affecting horror films – The Shining, Let the Right One In, even The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – come from a female perspective.
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He also urged people to honor the shooting survivors, who doggedly reported on the horror affecting their own newsroom and have kept working amid their grief.
No photograph, or portfolio of photographs, can unfold, go further, and further still, as does The Ascent (1977), by the Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko, the most affecting film about the horror of war I know.
Yet kindness, in this novel, tends to dominate, in affecting contrast to the unfathomable horror of the Powers story.
In chronicling the friendship of two young soldiers struggling to stay alive on the battlefield there he has written a deeply affecting book that conveys the horrors of combat with harrowing poetry.
In the 1950s, for example, Congress looked at whether "crime and horror" comic books were affecting juvenile delinquency.
He was also cast in The Offence (1972), as a policeman who is so affected by the horrors of his work that he becomes the predator.
The recorded catalog is full of worthy recordings of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, a sublime 1919 work by an English master deeply affected by the horrors of World War I and, probably, by his own declining primacy.
The release of the transcripts from 9/11 offers painful yet necessary glimpses into the mind-set of those directly affected by the horrors of that day ("Fresh Glimpse in 9/11 Files of the Struggles for Survival," front page, Aug. 29).
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