Film Genres

Common Film Genres:

• Action

• Comedy

• Horror

• Sci-fi

• Romantic Comedy

• Drama

What is horror?

• A film that plays on the audiences fears - sometimes imitating a nightmare.

• Focuses on making an atmosphere to make the audience uneasy and uncomfortable. 

• Jump scares

• Stereo-typically involves supernatural elements,haunted place and/or a lot of gore.

• Includes many sub-genres as horror is a wide genre and can include many stores.

• The most common codes and conventions include screaming, blood, death, violence, specific victims, and isolated settings, chase sequences.

Horror movie sub-genres:

• Comedy Horror (Combination of comedy and horror)

• Action Horror (Combination of Action and horror, typically the eerie settings, and characters of horror films with tense and frantic chases of action films)

• Psychological horror (Based upon characters fears, focusing on psychological dread)

• Science fiction horror. (Combination of Sci-Fi and Horror)

• Body Horror (focuses on graphic destruction or mutilation of body parts e.g disease causes body to completely decay whilst living)

• Gothic Horror (Psychological terror in historically romantic settings e.g. castles) 

• Supernatural horror (paranormal, zombie ect)

• Japanese Horror (It is similar to supernatural horror, however focuses on unique and innovative story lines, often based upon old folks-tales with a modernised twist)

• Slasher (Graphic violence, commonly with knife/chainsaw ect)

• Dark Fantasy (Fantasy elements with a twist of horror, e.g. horror in a fantasy setting)

• Thriller-Horror (based upon real life events e.g serial killers ect)

We choose Supernatural Horror for our piece as we felt we could do a lot with it.