Subgenres Within Horror Movies

Sub-Genres Within

Slasher This type of horror will usually involve a psychopathic killer/stalker killing a sequence of victims in a violent manner.

Weapons normally seen within horror films are cutting tools, e.g. an axe or an knife. Slasher films can also overlap with the crime ad thriller genre. This films can often result in everybody dying and the killer escaping.

Examples Nightmare On Elm Street The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Gothic Gothic horrors with contain a horror or Goth element. They may also have romance with unfolds within the film, but it usually is suspenseful. Gothic horror films normally includes features such as castles, dungeons, ruined landscapes, extreme landscapes and the supernatural/natural.

Examples Let Me In Dracula Untold

Psychological These horror films usually relay on characters fear, guilt, emotional instability and sometimes the supernatural. This builds the tension and furthers the plot. The horror comes from the reality of this particular sub-genre.

Examples The Shining Silent House

Action Horror Action horror is a sub-genre which combines evil, an event of supernatural with chases scenes and violence inflicted with guns. Themes and elements that are often prevalent in action horror include most commonly zombies, demons, gore, vicious animals and vampires Examples The Purge: anarchy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Body Horror Body horror is where the horror element is generated from the degeneration of the human body. For example human limbs can be used to create monsters. These unnatural creatures could create fear within the audience.

Examples The Human Centipede Teeth

Comedy Horror This genre combines elements of both, comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horrors almost always cross over with black comedy. The legend of Sleepy Hollow is cited to be the first and best comedy horror.

Examples The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Shaun of the dead

Science Fiction Horror This genre can include the supernatural and also the fear of technology. But can be limited to mad scientist and experiments going wrong.

Examples Alien Extraterrestrial