HORROR

RESEARCH INTO HORROR

To help enhance and further my knowledge and understanding into horror genres I researched into the different sub genres that were

commonly used to make a horror movie. By researching into this will also help to make my film more specific to a certain sub genre if I

chose to base my film around horror.

ACTION HORROR

A sub-genre combining the intrusion of an evil force, event or personage of horror movies with the gunfights and frenetic chases of the action genre. Themes or elements often prevalent in typical action horror films include gore, demons, vicious animals, vampires and most commonly used zombies. This category can sometimes be linked into the fantasy genre with examples that include: Aliens, Predator, Hansel and Gretel, witch hunters, priest and feast.

COMEDY HORROR

Combines the elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre. The short story ‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’ by Washington Irving is cited as “the first great comedy-horror story” examples of comedy horror genres include: Jenifer's body, Teeth, Nina Forever, Slither, Army of Darkness and Idle Hands.

BODY HORROR

In which the horror is principally derived from the graphic destruction or degeneration of the body. Other types of body horror include unnatural movements, or the anatomically incorrect placements of limbs to create ‘monsters’ out of human body parts. David Cronenberg is one of the notable directors of that genre. Body horror films include:Starry eyes, velodrome, Dead Ringers, The thing, the fly, American Mary.

HOLIDAY HORROR

Involves a psychopathic killer stalking a sequence of victims in a violent manner during Christmas. The murders are often committed by someone dressed as Santa Claus, a snowman or an elf, an elf, or other Christmas characters, Examples include: Silent night, Deadly night, Jack Frost, The gingerbread man, Black Christmas, Krampus and All through the house.

HORROR GENRE

A film that focuses on imperilled characters dealing with realistic emotional struggles, often involving dysfunctional family relations, in a horror setting. The films horror elements often serve as a backdrop to an unravelling dramatic plot. Examples include- Dark water, lights out, the babadook, let the right one in, antichrist, excision thirteen ghosts, mirrors and audition.

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

Relies on the characters fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music, emotional instability and at times the supernatural and ghosts and to build tension, scare and further the plot. Notable psychological horror films include: repulsion, rosemary's baby, the shining, may, I know who killed me, the changeling and the uninvited.

Often revolves around subjects that include but are not limited to killer aliens, mad scientists, and experiments gone wrong. Examples of this include: Species, the blob, the thing, mimic, alien, Apollo 18, resident evil.

SCIENCE FICTION HORROR

Often revolves around a serial killer who systematically murders people through violent means. Examples include: Texas chainsaw, massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, black Christmas, a nightmare on elm street, your next and scream.

SLASHER FILM

These films deliberately focus on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. Through the use of special effects and excessive blood and guts they tend to display an overt interest in the vulnerability of the human body and the theatricality of its mutilation. Not all splatter films are slashers, and not all splatter films are horrors. Examples of splatter horror films include: Train, the human centipede, hostel, saw, blood, feast storm warning, maniac.

SPLATTER FILM

Gothic horror is a type of story that contains elements of goth and horror. At times it may have romance that unfolds in the setting of a horror tale, usually suspenseful. Some of the earliest horror movies were of this subgenre. Examples include: Dracula, Sleepy Hollow, The Others, The Phantom of the Opera, Kill, Baby, Kill, Nosferatu and Crimson Peak.

GOTHIC HORROR

A subgenre of horror films "featuring nature running amok in the form of mutated beasts, carnivorous insects, and normally harmless animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers." This genre may sometimes overlap with the science fiction and action and adventure genres. Examples include: Piranha 3D, Bats, Lake Placid, Rogue, Alligator, Eaten Alive, Eight Legged Freaks and Jaws.

NATURAL HORROR

Zombie films feature creatures who are usually portrayed as either reanimated corpses or mindless human beings. Distinct subgenres have evolved, such as the "zombie comedy" or the "zombie apocalypse". Examples include: Dawn of the Dead, REC, 28 Days Later, Dead girl, Dead Snow, Night of the Creeps and Messiah of Evil.

ZOMBIE HORROR