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Yeah, but Noir is pretty dead and is mostly confined to a specific era. Horror is ongoing and has been reliant on imagery to generate the desired emotions pretty much since the 1920s, when a generation of WWI veteran directors used the things they'd seen to inform their filmmaking.
Have you seen Night of the Hunter? I've always felt that's a horror film with some heavy Noir influence. Which makes sense because the director was in Noir films as an actor. I also super admire how Chinatown captures that Noir feel but in color, which I consider a feat; I think black and white is generally essential for that imagery and genre.
But in Noir, I tend to feel that the images set a tone, but don't dictate what the viewer feels as thoroughly as images alone have to in horror. The actors, dialogue, and action are still heavily required.
I don’t know if I’d call Night of the Hunter a film noir in the strictest sense, though it flirts with it. It almost defies genre. German Expressionism (which is what noir is rooted in and that’s what I’d attribute the visual link), thriller, horror, Southern Gothic......the last third of the movie is like Huckleberry Finn but with a splash more child murder!
The imagery of the mother’s hair swaying with the seaweed is one of the most beautifully haunting shots in classic film to me. I also love how creepily Robert Mitchum says the word, “CHIIIIILDREN!”