2. ACTION HORROR
• ACTION HORROR IS A SUB-GENRE THAT COMBINES THE INTRUSION OF EVIL,
AN EVENT OR THE SUPERNATURAL IN HORROR FILMS WITH THE GUN
FIGHTS AND FRANTIC CHASES THAT ARE PERFORMED IN ACTION-GENRE..
• THEMES AND ELEMENTS THAT ARE OFTEN PREVALENT IN ACTION-HORROR
INCLUDE MOST COMMONLY ZOMBIES, ALONG WITH DEMONS, GORE,
VICIOUS ANIMALS AND VAMPIRES.
• EXAMPLES INCLUDE, DAWN OF THE DEAD, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN AND
BLADE
• THIS CATEGORY ALSO FUSES THE FANTASY HORROR GENRE, FOR EXAMPLE
RESIDENT EVIL, GHOST RIDER AND PLANET TERROR
3. BODY HORROR
• WHERE HORROR IN GENERATED FROM THE DEGENERATION OR
DECONSTRUCTION OF THE HUMAN BODY. LIMBS USE D TO CREATE
MONSTERS OUT OF HUMAN BODY PARTS., OR UNNATURAL MOVEMENTS AND
DYSFUNCTION TO CREATE FEAR.
• DAVID CRONENBERG IS A WELL KNOWN DIRECTOR FOR THIS TYPE OF
GENRE.
• SOME BODY HORROR FILMS INCLUDE, TEETH, THE INVASION AND CABIN
FEVER.
4. COMEDY HORROR
• COMBINES ELEMENTS OF COMEDY AND HORROR FICTION. THE HORROR
GENRE ALMOST ALWAYS INEVITABLY CROSSES OVER WITH BLACK COMEDY.
• THE FILM “THE LEGEND OF THE SLEEPY HOLLOW” IS CITED TO BE THE FIRST
AND GREATEST COMEDY-HORROR GENRE..
• EXAMPLES INCLUDE. SCARY MOVIE , SLITHER ,SHAUN OF THE DEAD AND
GREMLINS.
5. GOTHIC HORROR
• GOTHIC HORROR CONTAINS BOT ELEMENTS OF GOTHIC AND HORROR.
SOME OF THE EARLIEST HORROR MOVIES WERE OF THIS GENRE..
• GOTHIC HORROR FILMS NORMALLY INCLUDES FEATURES SUCH AS
CASTLES, DUNGEONS RUINED LANDSCAPES , EXTREME LANDSCAPES AND
MAGIC/THE SUPERNATURAL..
• EXAMPLES INCLUDE DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MUMMY
6. PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
• RELIES ON A CHARACTERS FEARS, GUILT AND BELIEF , EMOTIONAL
INSTABILITY AND AT TIMES THE SUPERNATURAL TO BUILD THE TENSION AND
FURTHER THE PLOT. THE HORROR COMES FROM THE REALITY OF THIS
PARTICULAR SUB GENRE..
• EXAMPLES INCLUDE, THE SHINING, THE RING AND THE EXORCIST
7. SCIENCE FICTION HORROR
• OFTEN DEALS WITH THE PARANORMAL BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO MAD
SCIENTISTS AND /OR EXPERIMENTS GOING WRONG.
• THIS GENRE CAN ALSO DEAL WITH THE FEAR OF TECHNOLOGY
• EXAMPLES INCLUDE ALIEN AND THE MIST
8. SLASHER FILM
• THIS SUBGENRE DEALS WITH A LOT OF VIOLENCE WHICH USUALLY
REVOLVES AROUND A PSYCHOPATHIC SERIAL KILLER STALKING AND
KILLING A NUMEROUS AMOUNT OF VICTIMS. THE KILLER USUALLY USES A
SPECIFIC WEAPON OF CHOICE TO KILL HIS VICTIM.
• SLASHER FILMS ARE ALSO BUILT UP ON A LOT OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
AND MAY SOMETIMES OVERLAP WITH CRIME.
• EXAMPLE INCLUDE, PSYCHO, THE TEXAS CHAINS SAW MASSACRE AND
PROM NIGHT
9. ZOMBIE FILM
• ZOMBIE FILMS PORTRAY VIRAL RELIVING CORPSES/ MINDLESS HUMANS
THAT FEED OFF OF THE LIVING.
• EXAMPLES INCLUDE, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD , DAWN OF THE DEAD AND
I AM LEGEND
