Different kinds of Horror Movies
Different Kinds Of Horror Movies
Every horror movie has various frightening elements. It can be killers, ghosts, monsters, animals or even dolls.
Which type of horror movies do you find the scariest?
Well, there are lots of of kinds of horror movies,
and the most popular subgenres are:
Body horror – The horror caused from the destruction of the body in the movie.Body horror include unnatural movements or anatomically incorrect placement of the limb to create ‘monsters’.
Science fiction Horror- mash-up of science fiction and horror, usually science fiction is used to precipitate the horror, Like in the movie “Alien”.
Zombie film – Zombie films include reanimated corpses or mindless human that feed off of the living.
Supernatural: Can include ghosts, monsters, dark forces, zombies, or
pretty much any creepy thing that can’t be found in the real world.
Psychological Horror: driven by characters’ fears and focused more on psychological dread than on murders and gores.
Of course, there are more types of horror movies like:
-Action horror.
-Comedy horror.
-Gothic Horror.
-Satanic/Religious/Occult Horror.
-Erotic Horror/Paranormal Romance
Psychological Horror
Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction,film, and video games (as a narrative) which relies on the characters’ fears and emotional instability to build tension.
Psychological horror aims to create discomfort by exposing common or universal psychological and emotional vulnerabilities and fears, such as the shadowy parts of the human psyche that most people repress or deny referred to in Jungian psychology as the archetypal shadow characteristics: suspicion, distrust, self-doubt and paranoia of others, themselves and the world. Thus, elements of psychological horror focus on mental conflict. These become important as the characters face perverse situations, often involving the supernatural, immorality and conspiracies. While other horror media emphasize fantastical situations such as attacks by monsters, psychological horror tends to keep the monsters hidden and to involve situations more grounded in artistic realism.
Plot twists are an often used device. Characters commonly face internal battles with subconscious desires such as romantic lust and the desire for petty revenge. In contrast, splatter fiction focuses on bizarre, alien evil to which the average viewer cannot easily relate.
Psychological horror films differ from the traditional horror film, where the source of the fear is typically something material, such as creatures, monsters or aliens, as well as the splatter film, which derives its effects from gore and graphic violence, in that tension is built through atmosphere, eerie sounds and exploitation of the viewer’s and the character’s psychological fears.
The Black Cat (1934) and Cat People (1942) have been cited as early psychological horror films.
Roman Polanski directed two films which are considered quintessential psychological horror: Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary’s Baby. Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining is another particularly well-known example of the genre. The Changeling (1980) directed by Peter Medak is another good example of a psychological haunting story.
The subgenre is a staple in Asian countries. Japanese horror films, commonly
referred to as “J-horror”, have been noted to be generally of a psychological horror nature. Notable examples are Ring (1998) and the Ju-on series. Another influential category is theKorean horror films, commonly referred to as “K-horror”. Notabl
e examples are A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Hansel and Gretel (2007) and Whispering Corridors (1998). A landmark film from the Philippines, Kisapmata (1981), is an example of psychological horror.
Science Fiction
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar space travel or other technologies.
Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition.
In many cases, tropes derived from written science fiction may be used by filmmakers ignorant of or at best indifferent to the standards of scientific plausibility and plot logic to which written science fiction is traditionally held.
The genre has existed since the early years of silent cinema, when Georges Melies’ A Trip to the Moon (1902) employed trick photography effects.
The next major example in the genre was the 1927 film Metropolis – being the first feature length science fiction movie.
From the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre consisted mainly of low-budget B-movies. After Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 landmark 2001: A Space Odyssey, the science fiction film genre was taken more seriously.
In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became popular with audiences after the success of Star Wars and paved the way for the blockbuster hits of subsequent decades.
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