1. Horror sub Genres

2. SUPERNATURAL
• can include ghosts, monsters, dark forces,
zombies, or pretty much any creepy thing that
can’t be found in the real world.

3. DARK FANTASY
• contains fantasy elements with a horror twist,
or horror with a distinctly fantastical setting

4. SCI-FI HORROR
• mash-up of science fiction and horror, usually
where the sci-fic aspects (aliens, robots, space
travel) are used to precipitate the overriding
horror

5. PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
• driven by characters’ fears and focused more
on psychological dread than on
murder, mutilation, and gore. Could be
supernatural, but is more often associated
with those twists where the protagonist turns
out to be insane.

6. GOTHIC
• Involves psychological terror in historically
romantic settings, usually including mysteries,
ghosts, castles, decay, madness, hereditary
curses, and death

7. SPLATTERPUNK
• The horror extreme, with graphic and gory
violence intended to gross you out. Includes
cinema’s torture porn category.

8. RELIGION AND OCCULT
• horror derived from certain belief systems and the evil
aspects that they fight against. Usually involves demonic
possessions, exorcisms, or explorations of the darker side of
pagan religions and the use of ”left hand” magic

9. THRILLER
• does not involve any supernatural or otherworldly aspects,
instead relying on real-life situations to generate horror
through serial killers, deadly situations, natural disasters, and
psycopaths