Gothic horror is a sub-genre of horror stories that often contain elements of romance set in a horror setting and were some of the earliest horror movies. Some other sub-genres of horror include nature horror which features nature running amok through mutated beasts or carnivorous insects; psychological horror which relies on characters' fears and instability to build tension; and zombie films which feature reanimated corpses or mindless humans. Slasher films often revolve around a psychopathic killer stalking and killing victims with blades, and body horror derives horror from graphic destruction or mutation of the human body.
Gothic horror is a type of story that contains elements of goth and horror
1. 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 sub-genre
A sub-genre 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.Nature
horror
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
2. Zombie Zombie films feature creatures who are usually portrayed as either reanimated corpses or
mindless human beings
3. 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
Slpatter 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.
Slasher film – Often revolves around a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims
in a graphically violent manner, mainly with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe. Slasher films may at
4. times overlap with the crime, mystery and thriller genre, and they are not all of the horror genre
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 part