Hollywood Genre Analysis

1. HORROR
ANALYSIS
RESEARCH
Research and Planning
Fatima Zehra
AS-F

2. Expectation From Horror Movies!
Jumps & Screams Physologically Terrified
Gross Scenes Unique/ Intersting Charaters
Monsters
Zombies Vampires Aliens Evil Humans Others
Why we watch Horror Movies!
For the Thrill Entertainment To be Scared Our Friends watch it

3. Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative
emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the
audience's primal fears. Inspired by literature from
authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary
Shelley, horror films have existed for more than a
century.The macabre and the supernatural are frequent
themes, and may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural
fiction and thriller genres.
Horror films often deal with viewers' nightmares, fears,
revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the
horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force,
event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin,
into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include
ghosts, extraterrestrials, vampires, werewolves, demons,
gore, torture, vicious animals, evil
witches, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers.
Movies about the supernatural are not necessarily
horrific.

4. TYPES OF
HORROR1 - Physical Natural Horror: In this case, the fear comes from a character being under direct physical
threat of pain, suffering and/or death from real world circumstances. As in slasher movies where the
murderer is a regular person, or scary movies where the threat is an animal, a virus, even a truck.
2 - Physical Supernatural Horror: Still the direct fear of death is the main plot drive, but in this case the
threat has unknown, esoteric elements outside our knowledge. A slasher movie where the murderer can't be
killed, or is a magical doll, for instance.
3 - Psychological Natural Horror: The fear comes from more complex issues than just avoiding pain,
but still by what we identify as natural elements, like the fear of losing your mind, your identity... like the FBI
agent surrounded by darkness, hunted by a killer with night vision googles, she'll have to overcome a natural
fear of the dark, not just a psychopath.
4 - Psychological Supernatural Horror: Again a fear that comes from inside the mind of the character,
but with elements outside our knowledge. Most asian horror movies follow this path, like the character from
the Ring is not chased directly by a monster, but there is a tense countdown until something undetermined
and supernatural happens.

6. T
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■ Action horror - A subgenre combining the intrusion of an evil force, event, or supernatural personage of horror movies with
the gunfights and frenetic chases of the action genre.Themes or elements often prevalent in typical action-horror films
include gore, demons, vicious animals, vampires and, most commonly, zombies.This category also fuses the fantasy genre.
Examples include: Aliens, Predator, Hansel & Gretel:Witch Hunters, Priest and Feast.
■ Comedy horror – Combines the elements of comedy and horror fiction.The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably
crosses over with the black comedy genre.The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow byWashington Irving is cited as "the
first great comedy-horror story“. Examples of comedy horror films include: Jennifer's Body, Teeth, Nina
Forever, Slither, Army of Darkness and Idle Hands.
■ Body horror – In which the horror is principally derived from the graphic destruction or degeneration of the body. Other
types of body horror include unnatural movements, or the anatomically incorrect placement of limbs to create 'monsters'
out of human body parts. David Cronenberg is one of the notable directors of the genre. Body horror films
include: Existenz, Videodrome, Dead Ringers, TheThing, The Fly and American Mary.
■ Horror drama – A film that focuses on imperiled characters dealing with realistic emotional struggles, often involving
dysfunctional family relations, in a horror setting.The film's horror elements often serve as a backdrop to an unraveling
dramatic plot. Examples include: DarkWater, The Babadook, Let the RightOne In, Antichrist, Excision and Audition.
■ Horror thriller –Type of film that blends the horror and thriller genres: focusing on suspense, tension, mystery and
investigation elements while having an emphasis on fear, terror and/or gore. Many horror films tend to cross over into the
thriller genre due to their suspenseful and tense nature. Personages of supernatural origin may be present in such films.
Examples of horror thrillers include Saw, Strangers, Hostel, Eden Lake, Scream , Final Destination, Halloween and I Know
WhatYou Did Last Summer.
■ Psychological horror – Relies on characters' fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music, emotional instability
and at times, the supernatural and ghosts, to build tension, scare and further the plot. Notable psychological horror films
include: Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, May, The Changeling, The Shining and TheUninvited.
■ Science fiction horror – Often revolves around subjects that include but are not limited to killer aliens, mad scientists,
and/or experiments gone wrong. Examples include: Species, Mimic, Alien, The Blob, Apollo 18 and Resident Evil.

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■ Slasher film - Often revolves around a masked or disfigured serial killer who systematically murders high
school/college aged teenagers and young adults through violent means. Examples include: TheTexas Chain
Saw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Black Christmas, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream.
■ Splatter film –These films deliberately 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 the theatricality of its mutilation. Not all splatter films are slashers, and not all splatter
films are horrors. Examples of splatter horror films include: Inside, Train, Hostel, Cannibal Holocaust, Blood
Feast and Maniac.
■ Supernatural horror - Includes menacing ghosts, demons, or other depictions of supernatural occurrences.
Often, supernatural horror films combine elements of religion into the plot. Common themes include vengeful
ghosts, witches, the devil, and demonic possession. Examples include: The Ring, The Grudge, The Omen, The
Exorcist, Paranormal Activity and The BlairWitch Project.
■ Gothic horror – Gothic horror is 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. Some of the earliest horror
movies were of this subgenre. Examples include: Dracula, Sleepy Hollow, The Others, The Phantom of the
Opera, Kill, Baby, Kill and Nosferatu.
■ Natural horror – A subgenre of horror films "featuring nature running amok in the form of mutated beasts,
carnivorous insects, and normally harmless animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers."This genre may
sometimes overlap with the science fiction and action and adventure genres. Examples include: Piranha
3D, Bats, Lake Placid, Rogue, Alligator and Eaten Alive.
■ Zombie film – Zombie films feature creatures who are usually portrayed as either reanimated corpses or
mindless human beings. Distinct subgenres have evolved, such as the "zombie comedy" or the "zombie
apocalypse". Examples include: Dawn of the Dead, REC, 28 Days Later, Dead Snow, Night of the
Creeps and Messiah of Evil.

8. FearFear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by
living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ
function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running
away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events. Fear may occur
in response to a specific stimulus happening in the present, or
to a future situation, which is perceived as risk.
In humans and animals, fear is modulated by the process
of cognition and learning. Thus fear is judged as rational or
appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is
called a phobia.
Fear is closely related to, but should be distinguished from, the
emotion "anxiety", which occurs as the result of threats that are
perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable.
The fear response serves survival by generating appropriate
behavioral responses, so it has been preserved
throughout evolution.
There are two main types of fear.
Fear Of Death
Fear Of The Unknown

9. MOVIES