What is genre?......

HorrorThe purpose of the genre horror is to scare, terrify and frighten the audience. The rush that a horror movie provides, gives the audience a taste of an aspect in life that we often never really experience.

The general conventions of the horror genre: chase scenes, isolated locations, tense music (pace of music gets louder and much quicker at frightful

scenes) supernatural events(ghosts, objects moving by themselves) , Dark lighting, victims being trapped, unusual children

The horror genre was established in the 60s. The genre emerged because The first ever person who created horror wanted to create a film to give an adrenaline rush. Horror movies give us an adrenaline rush in ways that we could never feel otherwise.

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Some examples of classic films to represent the genre at the time when it was established are .....

Le Manoir de Diable Nosferatu Frankenstein

Convention of Frankenstein: murders his father with shotgun. (killing and weapons are both conventions of horror)

Convention of noseferatu: Sucks the blood out of victims (blood is a convention of horror)

Convention of Le Manoir de Diable : Haunted house (Haunted houses are a convention of horror

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Horror

Sci-fi horror

Horror supernatural

Horror mystery

Disaster horror

Horror thriller

Comedy horror

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Horror romance

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Horror documentary

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Blonde bimbos, A clumsy villain, Exaggerated blood scenes(unrealistic and silly)

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Conventions of comedy horror:

AlienHybrid

The Skeleton keyHybrid

Final destinationHybrid

The killing roomHybrid

Jeepers creepersHybrid

Blair witch projectHybrid

My bloody valentineHybrid

Scary movieHybrid

Examples of films to represent the sub-genre, comedy romance are ....

Scary movie Shaun of the dead Dahmer vs gacy

A Government plot gone awry: The DNA of serial killers is being kept on a secret base, in order to create the perfect killing machine.

An uprising of zombies has overwhelmed the town, but Shaun is too busy dealing with his problems and too hung-over to notice.

An 18-year-old girl named Drew Decker receives a threatening phone call while home alone one night.

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• Purpose of comedy horror: To provide something that dramatic horror films do not, “the permission to laugh at your fears”

• Purpose of horror romance: To give the audience a completely different interpretation of horror, the fact that horror and romance are totally different creates something new.

• Purpose of supernatural horror: To give the audience a sense of fear and intensity

• Purpose of horror mystery: Creates a feel of suspence and fear to the audience

• Purpose of Documentary horror : Makes the film appear more realistic which creates even more horror.

• Purpose of disaster horror : Takes the focal point away from a villain which differs from usual horror

The sub-genre horror comedy was established in the 1920’s in the era of silent film, the source material for early comedy horror films came from the stager performances instead of literature.

Why horror comedy was established

The sub-genre comedy horror emerged because it wanted to satisfy those who horror didn't entirely appeal to and add a humorous comic feel to it. Attracting more people.

When horror comedy established

Horror comedy