Horror is a genre that aims to create a sense of fear, panic, alarm, and dread for the audience. These films are often unsettling and rely on scaring the audience through a portrayal of their worst fears and nightmares. Horror films usually center on the arrival of an evil force, person, or event. Many Horror films include mythical creatures such as ghosts, vampires, and zombies. Traditionally, Horror films include a large amount of violence and gore into the plot.
Deviations
Sub Genres
Comedy-Horror combines comedy with traditional horror movie themes and characters. This sub genre aims to scare the audience whilst also making them laugh.
Slasher film is a sub-genre of Horror film that revolves around a psychopathic killer. This killer stalks and murders his victims in extremely violent and memorable ways. Though it centers on a specific killer, the violence is what sets Slasher films apart from other horror films. A Slasher film will devote more screen time to portray murder and mayhem than a traditional Horror film.
Crossover
Horror film often overlaps into Fantasy, Thriller, and Science-Fiction genres.
Examples of Horror
Nightmare On Elm Street
Saw
Friday The 13th
The Conjuring
This is a reasonably good introduction to the basics of genre with some insight into your understanding of the genre. You have clearly thought about the changing nature of the genre.
ReplyDeleteWWW- you have discussed some of the sub genres of horror, although further research would have revealed that there are a lot more.
EBI-You haven't really engaged with the issue of the popularity of this genre as you were meant to and it's important to show that you understand why certain genres are popular.
Show me- Reply to this post and discuss in your response why horror is an appealing genre for audiences and what those appeals are in terms of the content.
Horror is an appealing genre for audiences due to the changing nature of it in ways such as development in technology which allows for producers to create scarier films in order to pull in bigger crowds. Also the way in which the films are marketed attracts more people to watch the film.
Delete