This document discusses different genres and subgenres of horror films. It begins by defining the horror genre as seeking to elicit negative emotions through primal fears inspired by authors like Poe, Stoker, and Shelley. Key elements include the macabre, supernatural, ghosts, monsters, and serial killers. Subgenres discussed include action horror, comedy horror, body horror, and psychological horror. Comedy-horror blends comedy with traditional horror themes. Teen-horror revolves around teenagers facing suspenseful situations. Monster films center on a struggle between humans and a created monster.

1. Genre Analysis
BY:Farah Abdullah

2. Horror
 Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative
emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the
audience's primal fears. Inspired by literature from
authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary
Shelley, horror films have, for more than a century,
featured scenes that startle the viewer. The
macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes,
and may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural
fiction and thriller genres.

3. Content
 Horror films often deal with viewers' nightmares, fears,
revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the
horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force,
event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin,
into the everyday world. Prevalent elements
include ghosts, extraterrestrials
,vampires, werewolves, demons, gore, torture, vicious
animals, evil witches, monsters, zombies,cannibals,
and serial killers. Movies about the supernatural are not
necessarily horrific

4. Subgenres
 Action Horror - A subgenre combining the intrusion of an evil force, event,
or supernatural 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, zombies. This
category also fuses the fantasy genre.
 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".
 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 placement of limbs to create 'monsters' out of human body
parts. David Cronenberg is one of the notable directors of the genre.
 Psychological horror – Relies on characters' fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects,
relevant music, emotional instability and at times, the supernatural and ghosts, to
build tension and further the plot.

6.  Comedy-Horror combines comedy with traditional horror movie themes and
characters. Because of the subject matter, 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.
 Teen-Horror is a sub-genre that revolves completely around a teenager or a group
of teenagers. Typically, 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.
 A Monster film is sub-genre of Horror that centers on a struggle between human
beings and a monster(s). Often, the monster in the film has been created in an
“experiment gone wrong.” The monster usually serves as a villain, and the film
portrays a hero or heroine that ultimately saves the world from the monster.
Although these movies commonly fall into the Horror genre, Monster films have a
long tradition within Science-Fiction and Fantasy film as well.
 Examples: Aliens, Godzilla, Creature from the Black Lagoon