Zombie

Examples include Day Of The Dead, Night Of The Living Dead, I Am Legend. Zombieland, 28 Days Later and Shaun Of The Dead

This is a sub-genre usually portrays creatures who are either a reanimated corpses or mindless human beings. This sub-genre has also influenced sub-genres such as zombie comedy and zombie apocalypse. It’s designed to frighten, cause panic to the audience, invoke fears, normally concludes in a shocking ending and lead protagonist will normally survive.

PsychologicalThis sub-genre relies on the characters fears, guilt and beliefs. It aims to create discomfort by exposing psychological vulnerabilities. It also relies on eerie sound effects, relevant music, emotional instability and the unknown, mystery and signs to create ominous feeling,. Lots of different events happen building up the whole picture.

Examples includes Shutter Island, The Exorcist, Silent Hill, Smiley, Devils Due, The Silences Of The Lambs

GothicThis sub-genre combines both goth and horror. At time it may have romance that unfolds within the film, which is usually suspenseful. Some of the earliest horror films were of this sub-genre.

Examples include The Phantom Of The Opera, Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Haunting and Sleepy Hollow

Slasher Slashers often revolve around a psychopathic killer who kills a sequence of victims in a violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe. They often overlap with crime, mystery and thriller.

Examples include Halloween, Friday 13th, Scream, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Sleepaway Camp

Splatter These often focus on graphic use of gore and violence. Using special effects and excessive blood and guts, they tend to show an over the top interest in the vulnerability of the human body and its mutilation. Not all of them are slasher films and they are not all horror.

Examples include Hostel, Saw, Cannibal Holocaust, Dead Snow, Meatball Machine and I Spit On Your Grave

ComedyThis sub-genre combines the humorous elements of comedy and horror. It crosses over to black comedy the majority of the time. “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving is cited as the first comedy horror.

Examples include Gremlins, An American Werewolf In London, Dead Alive, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Piranha, Scary Movie

Body

This is a sub-genre in which it features the graphic destruction/degeneration of the body. Other types of body horror include unnatural movements or the anatomically incorrect placement of limbs to create monsters, such as Frankenstein.

Example include The Thing, Hellraiser, Teeth, Tusk, American Mary, From Beyond