My Horror sub-genre slideshow

1. Zombie
Examples include Day Of The Dead, Night Of
The Living Dead, I Am Legend. Zombieland,
28 Days Later and Shaun Of The Dead
This is a sub-genre usually portrays
creatures who are either a
reanimated corpses or mindless
human beings. This sub-genre has
also influenced sub-genres such as
zombie comedy and zombie
apocalypse. It’s designed to frighten,
cause panic to the audience, invoke
fears, normally concludes in a
shocking ending and lead protagonist
will normally survive.

2. Psychological
This sub-genre relies on the characters
fears, guilt and beliefs. It aims to create
discomfort by exposing psychological
vulnerabilities. It also relies on eerie
sound effects, relevant music,
emotional instability and the unknown,
mystery and signs to create ominous
feeling,. Lots of different events happen
building up the whole picture.
Examples includes Shutter Island, The
Exorcist, Silent Hill, Smiley, Devils Due,
The Silences Of The Lambs

3. Gothic
This sub-genre combines both goth
and horror. At time it may have
romance that unfolds within the film,
which is usually suspenseful. Some of
the earliest horror films were of this
sub-genre.
Examples include The Phantom Of The
Opera, Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein,
The Haunting and Sleepy Hollow

4. Slasher
Slashers often revolve around a
psychopathic killer who kills a
sequence of victims in a violent
manner, often with a cutting tool such
as a knife or axe. They often overlap
with crime, mystery and thriller.
Examples include Halloween, Friday
13th, Scream, The Texas Chain Saw
Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes,
Sleepaway Camp

5. Splatter
These often focus on graphic use of
gore and violence. Using special
effects and excessive blood and
guts, they tend to show an over the
top interest in the vulnerability of
the human body and its mutilation.
Not all of them are slasher films
and they are not all horror.
Examples include Hostel, Saw, Cannibal
Holocaust, Dead Snow, Meatball
Machine and I Spit On Your Grave

6. Comedy
This sub-genre combines the
humorous elements of comedy
and horror. It crosses over to black
comedy the majority of the time.
“The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” by
Washington Irving is cited as the
first comedy horror.
Examples include Gremlins, An
American Werewolf In London, Dead
Alive, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Piranha,
Scary Movie

7. Body
This is a sub-genre in which it features
the graphic destruction/degeneration
of the body. Other types of body
horror include unnatural movements
or the anatomically incorrect
placement of limbs to create
monsters, such as Frankenstein.
Example include The Thing, Hellraiser, Teeth,
Tusk, American Mary, From Beyond