Sub Genres

With in horror, there are a selection of sub genres, such as Slasher, Gothic, Supernatural and Psychological. All of these sub genres seek to create a negative and emotional reaction by playing on the audience's primal fears. Sub genres are suitable to directly brush on everyone's different fears. sub genres are essential because there are a range of different horrors therefore categorisation is needed. Having sub genres allows the audience to choose a favourite and watch that one. 

A Psychological horror would involve a normal looking character with a disturbed and twisted mindset, which pushes the character to become a murderer. An example of a psychological horror is 'Orphan'. 

A Slasher horror movie involves weapons, gore, and masks. The traditional plot for a slasher is based around a rebellious group of teenagers who are going against social expectations, which causes a masked, mass murderer to kill them one by one, and there is usually a final girl who battles for her life at the end. Friday 13th is a typical slasher horror movie, where he kills the teenagers in the forest one by one and then a final girl is left to face him. 

A Gothic horror is a very traditional type of horror which is old fashioned, but very original. Gothic horrors usually involve isolated locations, maybe in the forest and Dracula was one of the first Gothic horrors around, where a vampire goes after women. 

Lastly, the sub genre I have decided to to base my horror movie on, is supernatural. We have chosen to do a supernatural horror movie because the fear of the unknown is always going to exist. We also chose supernatural because we wanted to go for a more subtle and chilling scare.The fact that societies do not know whether spirits and demons exist, or where they will be, makes it more frightening for them, especially if the comfort of their own home is not enough anymore. Supernatural horror movies usually involve a normal family who have a spirit living in their house, or one of the family members become possessed. The spirit is usually there for a reason, for example in Paranormal Activity, the sister becomes possessed and the spirit is looking for the first born son in the family.