Horror genres and sub-genres

In addition to these there are a few other sub-genres that do not fit in with these categories, a few of these are hybrids.

This is when a new genre is created through two other genres merging together for example:

• Comedy Horror - Brain dead & Shaun of the Dead
• Sci-Fi Horror - Alien & Event Horizon
• Horror Romance - Let The Right One In & Warm Bodies
• Creepy Kid - The Omen & The Children
• Gothic Horror - Dracula & Sleepy Hollow
• Body Horror - The Fly & Society

Every genre goes through several phases as it progresses:

1. Seminal or proto-type - conventions are established through experimentation
2. Classic - The genre at its peak and conventions are solidified
3. Revisionist - The conventions are challenged
4. Parodic - Makes fun of typical conventions and tropes

Zombie

1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)- The start of the modern era of blood and gore zombie movies, it was an influential splatter film but also mirrored societal issues at the time. It was incredibly low budget and filmed on a handheld camera in grainy black and white.
2. Day of the dead (1985) - The third film in the 'Dead' series by George A. Romero with a much higher budget than Night of the Living Dead some critics thought it lacked likable characters and was a lot darker than the other movies
3. Warm Bodies (2013) - This is a horror romance movie and is definitely revisionist. Its a new take on a zombie movie and the zombies can be cured by love. Other revisionist movies were remakes. For example, a remake of Day of the dead where the zombies are running.
4. Shaun of the Dead (2004) - A parody movie takes the overused tropes and makes them funny rather than scary