Our Film Genres and Sub-Genres

 

Our Film Genres and Sub-Genres

For our film genres we have picked  Horror, we then looked in depth of these film genres and we looked into each of the genres's sub-genres.

Horror Sub-Genres ( Main Task )

• Action Horror - Action horror is a combination od the intrusion of an evil force, event or a supernatrual persona of a horror movie that will have the gunfights and frebetic chases of the action genre. Examples of these sub genres include: Resident Evil, Ghost Rider, Plant of terror, Undead, Doomsday, Underworld, Priest, Dawn of the Dead, Blade and End of Days.

• Body horror - A body horror film is when the principal of the film is deruved from the graphic destruction or degeneration of the body, this means that in these types of film you will see unnartual movements or the anatomically incorrect placement of the limbs. Examples of these sub genres include: Altered States, The Invasion, The Fly, Rosemary's Baby, Eraserhead, The Thing, Re-Animator, Hellraiser, Videodrome, Cabin Fever, Virus and Teeth.

• Comedy horror - Comedy horror are a combination of comedy genre and and horror fiction. The short story 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving is cited as "the first great comedy-horror story" Examples of these sub genres include: An American Werewolf in London, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gremlins, Bad Taste, Braindead, Beetlejuice, Arachnophobia, Terror Firmer, Eight Legged Freaks, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead II, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, and Slither.

• Gothic horror - A Gothic horror films are the type of film that will combine the elements of goth and horror combine into one film. Sometimes gothic horror films will have the element of romance that will unfold into the setting of a horror tale. Examples of these sub genres include: The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, Sleepy Hollow, Interview with the Vampire, Underworld, The Wolfman, From Hell, Dorian Gray, Let Me In and The Woman in Black.

• Natural horror - A Natural horror film features "nature running amok in the form of mutated beasts, carnivorous insects, and normally harmless animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers." These sub-genres will sometimes overlap with the genres of science fiction and action/adventure. Examples of these sub genres include: The Birds, Black Sheep, Jaws, Mimic, Deep Rising, Them!, The Swarm, Pet Sematary, Lake Placid, Primeval, Anaconda, Snakes on a Plane, The Cave, Piranha 3D and The Ruins.

• Psychological horror - Psychological horror are horror films that will relie on the characters's fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music, emotional instability and sometimes it will contian the supernatural and ghosts. Examples of these sub genres include: A Tale of Two Sisters, Dark Water, Gothika, Ring, Ju-on: The Grudge, The Exorcist, Session 9, Silent Hill, The Others, The Mothman Prophecies, The Blair Witch Project, 1408, The Shining, Stir of Echoes, The Innocents, Frailty, Sinister (film) The Changeling, and The Sixth Sense.

• Science Fiction horror - Science Fiction horror film will often revolve around the subject of killer aliens, mad scuentist or experiments gone wrong. Examples of these sub genres include: Alien, Pandorum, The Fly, Event Horizon, Apollo 18, Doom, Pitch Black, The Mist, and It Came from Outer Space.

• Slasher film - Slasher film will often recole around a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner and always with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe. the Slasher film sub-genres will always overlap with crime, mystery and thriller genres. Examples of these sub genres include: Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prom Night, Scream, Pieces, Hatchet, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Candyman, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

• Splatter film - Splatter films are will focus on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence, by using special effects and excessive blood and guts. They will display an overt interest in the vulnerability of the human bodyand the theatricality of it's mutilation. Examples of these sub genres include: Cannibal Holocaust, Piranha 3D, Blood Feast, Demons, Saw, Guinea Pig (film series), Hostel, Hostel: Part II, Cannibal Ferox, Martyrs, Hobo with a Shotgun, Inside, The Collector, and The Midnight Meat Train.

• Zombie film -Zombie films will feature creatures who are usually portrayed as either corpses or mindless human beings. Examples of these sub genres include: Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, The Evil Dead, I Am Legend, Dead Snow, Land of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, REC and The Return of the Living Dead.

the sub-genre the my partner Gloria and I  Psychological horror - Psychological horror are horror films that will rely on the characters's fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, tense and suspense building music, emotional instability and it may contain elements of the supernatural and ghosts. We choose this sub-genre because it goes perfectly with our plot for our main task and it's the type of film we want to film.