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Originally Posted by Angra
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Yeah...that's a good example.
Though may be sometimes they even caused human deaths but in the course of human civilization, animals like Horses, Elephants & cows most of the time have been seen or treated as very helpful & harmless animals as we found themselves very useful in mostly traveling, sports/entertainment or even domestic household or agricultural purposes. From their physical outlook even a child find them pretty interesting or beautiful as an animal; and most of the time they never appears or seems threatening for us. Moreover, unlike dogs & cats, they (very) hardly sounds creepy. Even if we consider the incidents or accidents where they (intentionally or not) killed their handlers or others, we would see a common pattern which is somewhat less horrifying, chilling or gruesome in compare to other crazy or man eating animal attack. May be the problem is there is very few (or no) records where they killed a human or other animal through bites instead of kicking or beating badly.
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Originally Posted by NightmareBreath
And then there are the frightening steeds of legend: the biblical Four Horsemen, the Headless Horseman, and the Nazgul riders in the Lord of the Rings, to name just a few. But the horses themselves are not the main focus, scary as they may be. The riders are the real agents of terror.
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That's a good point you added. Actually by nature, we mostly don't like to see or think of horses without a rider. Even we think or dream of an unicorn we wish to ride it later on. To most of the people, Horse is an animal that needs to get a rider; without a rider a horse seems unfulfilled as a living thing on earth. It's born to have a rider.
Now, for the sake of a concept for a horror story/film I'm not sure but it may be turn out interesting to see a deadly or evil horse as the main threat. But to do so the writer or director needs to show or have a good deal of creativity to raise the terror in reader's or viewer's mind. Otherwise the reader or the audience would hardly buy it unless the whole thing is treated as comedy like Black Sheep.
But yeah...may be in a western scenario it'd be 'interesting' to see a vengeful horse who stalks & kills the killers of his mater or the bad guys who caused the wrongful death of its rider. But the question is how interestingly all those killings by that horse can be shown or described?
Otherwise, an evil or deadly horse we can easily be portray in a bizzaro scenario...where we can borrow some disturbing physical features from other animals or insects and give it a horrifying or weird outlook...for example, a horse with 8 or more than 4 legs (like spiders) and a venomous scorpion tail.:D