Research and Planning - Genre (Horror)

• Comedy-Horror: combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy-Horror films can cross over into the Black Comedy sub-genre. Comedy-Horror films aim to scare the audience, but also provide comical outlets that let the audience laugh at their fear.
• Examples: Scary Movie 2, Black Sheep, Shaun of the Dead.

• Teen-Horror: is a sub-genre that revolves around a teenager or a group of teenagers.These movies have a large cast and a clear hero or heroine. Teen-Horror films often play upon traditional teenage issues, such as dating and prom, and turn them into suspenseful and thrilling situations.
• Examples: Scream, Prom Night, I know what you did last summer.

 

• Monster-Horror: is sub-genre of Horror that centers on a struggle between human beings and a monster.Often, the monster in the film has been created in an “experiment gone wrong.”  Monster films have a long tradition within Science-Fiction and Fantasy film as well.
• Examples: Aliens, Godzilla, Creature from the Black Lagoon.

• Slasher: is a sub-genre of Horror film that revolves around a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims usually in a graphically violent mannerm, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe.Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the slasher as a genre has its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres like the splatter films.
• Examples: Friday the 13th, halloween, savage weekend

• Supernatural-Horror: film is a sub-genre that includes ghosts, demons, or other depictions of supernatural occurrences. Often, Supernatural-Horror films combine elements of religion into the plot. Common themes in Supernatural-Horror films include the afterlife, the devil, and demonic possession. Unlike Religious Thrillers, Supernatural-Horror films are not limited to specific religious elements and can contain more vivid and gruesome violence.
  Examples: The Exorcist, The Ring, The Omen.

• Zombie-Horror: is a sub-genre of Horror film that portrays mindless human beings who are raised from the dead. These films often include a Zombie invasion, and center around Zombies feasting on human flesh. The plot of a Zombie film then revolves around the struggle between the living, and the living-dead. Zombie film not only falls into the Horror genre, but Sci-Fi, Thriller, and Comedy as well.
  Examples: Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later.