2. It combines the intrusion of an evil force, event, or
supernatural personage of horror movies with gunfights
and frenetic chases. Prevalent themes include; gore,
demons, vicious animals, vampires, and most
commonly, zombies. This category also fuses the fantasy
genre.
3. The horror is principally derived from the graphic
destruction or degeneration of the body. Other types
include; unnatural movements, and the anatomically
incorrect placement of limbs to create 'monsters' out
of human body parts.
4. Combines comedy and horror fiction. This genre
almost always inevitably crosses over with the black
comedy genre.
5. A type of story that contains elements of Goth and
horror. At times it may have romance that unfolds in
the setting of a horror tale, usually suspenseful.
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6. Features nature running amok in the form of mutated
beasts, carnivorous insects, and normally harmless
animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers. It
sometimes overlaps with science fiction and
action/adventure.
7. Relies on characters' fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound
effects, relevant music, emotional instability and at
times, the supernatural and ghosts, to build tension and
further the plot.
8. Often revolves around subjects that include but are
not limited to killer aliens, mad scientists, and/or
experiments gone wrong.
9. Often revolves around a psychopathic killer stalking and
killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent
manner, mainly with a knife or axe. Sometimes overlap
with crime, mystery and thriller genres, and not always
horror.
10. They focus on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic
violence. Through the use of special effects and
excessive blood and guts, they tend to display an overt
interest in the vulnerability of the human body and its
mutilation. Not all splatter films are slashers or
horrors.
11. Zombie films feature creatures who are usually portrayed
as either reanimated corpses or mindless human beings.
Further sub-genres have evolved, such as "zombie
comedy” or “zombie apocalypse”.
