This document discusses the horror genre of film. It outlines common conventions like scary settings, a main character surrounded by death, and an antagonist that is typically supernatural. It also notes that horror films are often dark and aim to elicit negative emotions in viewers. The document goes on to describe subgenres like action horror, comedy horror, psychological horror, science fiction horror, and gothic horror. It provides examples for each subgenre and lists some iconic horror films like Resident Evil, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, and Paranormal Activity.

1. Genre: Comedy
Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on
the audience's primal fears. (Wikipedia)
Horror Genre Conventions;
Setting: Normally somewhere which is already scary such as a worn down mansion, a forest,
graveyards, but sometimes they can be based in normal places depending on the type of movie
it is.
Normally based around one person to be the main character it will follow while people are killed
around them.
Will normally contain an antagonist which is normally not real like a ghost, demon or zombies,
but can also contain a crazed person who it out to kill everyone.
It can contain a relationship between two characters.
It would normally be dark for an added effect to make it scarier.
Sub/Hybrid Genres
Action Horror: These normally contain lots of gun fights or scenes where people
are fighting in some way; a good example would be any Resident Evil movie.
Comedy Horror: These are normally not serious about being a horror, and you
nearly almost see every movie with this genre is normally a spoof of some kind most
renown would be any Scary Movie film or they can just be a general movie and one
known for that is Shaun of the Dead.
Psychological Horror: These films are about playing with the characters fears, guilt
and beliefs and use lots of eerie and relevant music; a film well known for this is The
Ring.
Science Fiction Horror: These horrors normally about things from other planets but
are made to scare, not many movies have this but one that is very well know would
be Alien vs. Predator.
Gothic Horror: Gothic horrors are normally about mystical creatures such as
werewolf’s and vampires.
Key/Iconic Films
Resident Evil
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The shining
Paranormal Activity