Horror

HORROR (supernatural, psychological horror, body horror, etc.)

Supernatural Horror: Focuses on supernatural entities such as ghosts, demons, or otherworldly beings. Often includes elements beyond human understanding or control.

Psychological Horror: Explores the mental and emotional states of the characters, creating terror through inner conflicts, mental illnesses, or twisted psychological experiences.

Body Horror: Centers on the grotesque transformation or mutilation of the human body. Often explores themes of disease, decay, or disfigurement.

Gothic Horror: Combines elements of horror and romance, often set in gloomy old castles or haunted mansions and features mysterious events and supernatural occurrences.

Slasher Horror: Focuses on a psychopathic killer who stalks and violently kills a series of victims, often in a formulaic or suspenseful manner.

Zombie Horror: Centers on the living dead, exploring themes of disease, societal collapse, or human extinction.

Cosmic Horror: Also known as Lovecraftian horror, this subgenre deals with the fear of the unknown and the unknowable, often featuring ancient cosmic entities.

Folk Horror: Draws on folklore, myth, and superstition, often exploring rural and isolated settings and the horrific or magical events that occur within them.

Vampire Horror: Focuses on vampires, exploring themes of immortality, seduction, and bloodlust.

Werewolf Horror: Centers on werewolves or shapeshifters, exploring transformations, animal instincts, and often includes a tragic or cursed element.

Witchcraft Horror: Focuses on witches and witchcraft, exploring themes of spells, curses, and occult practices.

Medical Horror: Deals with terrifying medical practices or procedures, often exploring medical ethics, experimental treatments, or horrifying medical conditions.

Teen Horror: Aimed at a teenage audience, often featuring young characters facing horror in a coming-of-age context.

Apocalyptic Horror: Focuses on end-of-the-world scenarios, often exploring societal breakdown, chaos, and survival.

Paranormal Horror: Explores unexplained phenomena, often including ghosts, psychic abilities, or other paranormal occurrences.

Technological Horror: Focuses on technology gone awry, exploring fears related to AI, robotics, virtual reality, or other technological nightmares.

Comedy Horror: Blends horror with comedy, often mocking or satirizing common horror tropes or creating absurd or funny horror scenarios.

Family Horror: Aimed at a family audience, often featuring spooky but not overly terrifying elements suitable for younger viewers.

Found Footage Horror: Told through simulated 'found footage' such as home videos or security cameras, creating a sense of realism and immediacy.

Holiday Horror: Centers around specific holidays like Halloween or Christmas, often twisting festive traditions into something horrifying.

Anthology Horror: A collection of short horror stories, often connected by a common theme or framing device.

Erotic Horror: Combines elements of horror with eroticism, often exploring dark sexual desires or terrifying sexual encounters.

Extreme Horror: Characterized by its explicit violence, gore, or disturbing content, often pushing the boundaries of what is considered acceptable or tasteful.

Mumblegore: A blend of "mumblecore" and horror, characterized by low-budget production, naturalistic acting, and often focusing on personal relationships amidst horror elements.

Home Invasion Horror: Focuses on the terror of home invasion, often exploring vulnerability, paranoia, or survival.

Historical Horror: Sets the horror in a specific historical period, often blending real historical events with horror elements.

Kaiju Horror: Centers on giant monstrous creatures, often exploring themes of destruction, fear of the unknown, and mankind's insignificance.

Sci-Fi Horror: Blends science fiction and horror, often exploring terrifying futuristic scenarios, aliens, or technological horrors.

Disaster Horror: Focuses on natural or man-made disasters, often exploring themes of survival, chaos, and human error.

Cannibal Horror: Centers on cannibalism, often exploring taboo, primitive fear, or grotesque consumption of human flesh.

Revenge Horror: Focuses on a character seeking revenge, often in a brutal or terrifying manner.

Environmental Horror: Deals with ecological terror, often exploring themes related to pollution, climate change, or nature striking back.

Pandemic Horror: Focuses on outbreaks of diseases that cause panic, death, and societal breakdown.

Rural Horror: Set in rural or isolated locations, often exploring the fear of the unknown, local legends, or hidden horrors.

Urban Horror: Explores the fears and horrors associated with city life, often dealing with isolation, crime, or urban legends.

Serial Killer Horror: Focuses on characters who are serial killers, often exploring their psychology, methods, and the efforts to stop them.

Lovecraftian Horror: A specific subset of cosmic horror, focusing on the themes, motifs, and entities created by H.P. Lovecraft.

Monster Horror: Centers on monstrous creatures, often exploring fear of the unknown, predatory instincts, or mankind's creation gone awry.

Non-supernatural Horror: Focuses on realistic or plausible scenarios, often exploring human fears without relying on supernatural elements.

Occult Horror: Deals with occult practices or symbols, often exploring dark rituals, satanism, or demonic summoning.

Poetic Horror: A more artistic or symbolic approach to horror, often using poetic language, visuals, or themes to convey terror.

Possession Horror: Focuses on demonic or spiritual possession, often exploring themes of loss of control, evil takeover, or religious symbolism.

Post-Apocalyptic Horror: Set after a catastrophic event, often exploring themes of survival, societal collapse, and fear of the unknown.

Prison Horror: Set in prisons, often exploring themes of confinement, brutality, or terrifying prison experiences.

Psychological Thriller Horror: Blends psychological horror with thriller elements, often focusing on suspense, mental terror, and twisted mind games.

Religious Horror: Explores themes related to religion, often including religious symbols, rituals, or terrifying divine wrath.

Road Horror: Set on the open road or related to travel, often exploring fears of the unknown, stranded travelers, or terrifying road incidents.

Splatterpunk: Characterized by graphic descriptions of gore and violence, often pushing the limits of explicit content in horror.

Steampunk Horror: Combines horror with steampunk elements, often exploring terrifying scenarios in a steam-powered alternative universe.

Suburban Horror: Set in suburban settings, often exploring the hidden fears, secrets, or horrors lurking beneath the surface of suburban life.

Torture Horror: Focuses on the act of torture, often involving sadistic violence, captivity, and suffering.

True Crime Horror: Blends elements of true crime and horror, often recounting real-life crimes with a horror twist.

Virtual Reality Horror: Explores terrifying scenarios within virtual or augmented reality environments.

War Horror: Sets horror within the context of war, often exploring the atrocities, trauma, or supernatural events related to warfare.

Western Horror: Blends elements of the Western genre with horror, often featuring gunslingers, frontier settings, and supernatural occurrences.

Witch Hunt Horror: Focuses on witch trials or hunts, often exploring mass hysteria, persecution, or historical witch-hunting practices.

Military Horror: Centers around military settings and themes, often featuring soldiers facing supernatural or horrific threats.

Space Horror: Sets the horror in outer space or other planets, often exploring isolation, alien encounters, or cosmic fear.

Cult Horror: Focuses on cults or secret societies, often exploring themes of indoctrination, dark rituals, or charismatic leaders.

School Horror: Set in school environments, often exploring teenage fears, supernatural events, or terrifying school experiences.

Aquatic Horror: Centers on water-based settings or creatures, often involving sea monsters, shipwrecks, or underwater terror.

Arctic Horror: Set in Arctic or Antarctic settings, often exploring isolation, freezing conditions, or icy terror.

Biopunk Horror: Blends biological science fiction with horror, often exploring genetic engineering, biotechnology, or biological nightmares.

Childhood Horror: Focuses on childhood fears or experiences, often featuring child protagonists facing terrifying situations.

Classical Horror: Draws from classical literature or myths, often reimagining ancient stories with a horror twist.

Clown Horror: Centers on clowns or circus themes, often exploring the fear of clowns or dark circus nightmares.

Desert Horror: Set in desert landscapes, often exploring isolation, survival, or desert-based horrors.

Experimental Horror: Pushes the boundaries of conventional storytelling, often utilizing unconventional narrative techniques or experimental visuals.

Fairy Tale Horror: Twists classic fairy tales into horrifying or grotesque versions.

Ghost Ship Horror: Focuses on haunted or mysterious ships, often exploring maritime legends, ghostly sailors, or sea-based terror.

Hillbilly Horror: Explores stereotypes of rural or "hillbilly" characters, often featuring isolation, local legends, or backwoods terror.

Holiday Resort Horror: Set in holiday or vacation resorts, often involving tourists facing unexpected horrors or tropical nightmares.

Island Horror: Set on isolated islands, often exploring isolation, survival, or island-based horrors.

Kitchen Sink Horror: Incorporates various horror elements without a central theme, often blending multiple subgenres.

Legal Horror: Centers on legal settings or themes, often exploring corrupt legal systems, terrifying court cases, or law-based terror.

Melodramatic Horror: Uses melodramatic narrative techniques, often featuring exaggerated characters, emotions, or terrifying scenarios.

Mockumentary Horror: Utilizes a documentary format to tell fictional horror stories, often creating a sense of realism or parody.

Musical Horror: Blends elements of musicals with horror, often featuring songs, dance, or musical storytelling within a horror context.

Mythological Horror: Draws on specific mythologies, often reimagining myths, gods, or legendary creatures with a horror twist.

Neo-Noir Horror: Blends noir aesthetics with horror, often featuring dark, moody visuals, morally ambiguous characters, or urban terror.

New Weird Horror: A modern take on weird fiction, often blending speculative elements, unconventional storytelling, or strange occurrences.

Office Horror: Set in office environments, often exploring work-related stress, corporate culture, or office-based horrors.

Pet Horror: Centers on pets or domestic animals, often exploring fears related to pets, animal attacks, or anthropomorphic creatures.

Political Horror: Focuses on political themes, often exploring political corruption, dystopian regimes, or political-based terror.

Post-Modern Horror: Utilizes post-modern narrative techniques, often challenging conventional storytelling, genres, or horror tropes.

Psychic Horror: Focuses on psychic abilities or phenomena, often exploring mind control, telepathy, or psychic terror.

Pulp Horror: Emulates the style of vintage pulp magazines, often featuring sensationalism, action, or lurid content.

Radio Horror: Created specifically for radio format, often utilizing sound, music, or voice acting to create auditory horror experiences.

Recreational Horror: Set in recreational settings like amusement parks, often exploring fears related to leisure activities or vacation horrors.

Robotic Horror: Centers on robots or artificial intelligence, often exploring fears of automation, robotic uprising, or technological control.

Romantic Horror: Blends elements of romance with horror, often featuring love stories with a dark, terrifying, or supernatural twist.

Rural Gothic Horror: A variation of Gothic horror set in rural settings, often exploring local legends, isolation, or rustic terror.

Satirical Horror: Utilizes satire to comment on societal issues, often parodying or mocking cultural norms through horror scenarios.

Sci-Fi Action Horror: Blends science fiction, action, and horror, often featuring futuristic settings, technology, and action-packed horror sequences.

Shark Horror: Centers on sharks or shark attacks, often exploring primal fears, survival, or ocean-based terror.

Silent Horror: Refers to silent horror films or works that utilize silence or absence of sound to create terror.

Survival Horror: Focuses on characters struggling to survive in terrifying conditions, often emphasizing scarcity of resources, fear, and perseverance.

Time Travel Horror: Incorporates time travel elements, often exploring paradoxes, alternate timelines, or time-based terror.

Toy Horror: Centers on toys or childhood objects, often exploring the fear of inanimate objects coming to life or childhood nightmares.

Tragic Horror: Emphasizes tragedy or sorrow within horror, often featuring tragic characters, doomed relationships, or sorrowful terror.

Train Horror: Set on trains or railway settings, often exploring fears of confinement, derailment, or train-based terror.

Transhumanism Horror: Explores themes related to transhumanism, often focusing on human augmentation, ethics, or technological nightmares.

Tribal Horror: Focuses on tribal cultures or settings, often exploring fears related to indigenous practices, rituals, or tribal legends.

Urban Fantasy Horror: Blends urban fantasy with horror, often featuring supernatural elements within urban settings.

Urban Legend Horror: Centers on urban legends, often exploring well-known myths, folklore, or contemporary legends with a horror twist.

Vehicle Horror: Focuses on vehicles like cars, motorcycles, or planes, often exploring fears related to transportation, accidents, or vehicular terror.

Victorian Horror: Set in the Victorian era, often exploring societal norms, historical settings, or Victorian-era terrors.

Video Game Horror: Created specifically for video game format, often utilizing game mechanics, interactivity, or virtual experiences to create horror.

Viral Horror: Focuses on viral outbreaks or diseases, often exploring pandemic fears, infection, or biological terror.

Virtual Ghost Horror: Centers on digital or virtual ghosts, often exploring fears related to technology, digital hauntings, or online terror.

Wedding Horror: Set during weddings or matrimonial events, often exploring fears related to commitment, relationships, or wedding nightmares.

Weird West Horror: Blends elements of the Western genre with weird fiction, often featuring unconventional Western settings or strange occurrences.

Wellness Horror: Set in wellness or self-care environments, often exploring fears related to health, body image, or wellness culture.

Werewolf Horror: Focuses on werewolves or lycanthropy, often exploring transformation, primal instincts, or werewolf legends.

Witchcraft Horror: Centers on witches or witchcraft, often exploring occult practices, rituals, or witch-related terror.

Young Adult Horror: Tailored for young adult audiences, often featuring teenage protagonists, coming-of-age themes, or age-appropriate horror.

Zombie Comedy Horror: Blends elements of comedy with zombie horror, often parodying or adding humor to traditional zombie tropes.

Zombie Romance Horror: Blends elements of romance with zombie horror, often featuring love stories within a zombie apocalypse or undead scenarios.

Zoological Horror: Focuses on zoological themes or settings, often exploring fears related to animals, zoos, or animal-related terror.

Otherworldly Horror: Explores realms or dimensions outside our understanding, often featuring cosmic entities, parallel worlds, or otherworldly terror.

Apocalyptic Horror: Focuses on end-of-the-world scenarios, often depicting the collapse of civilization and the struggle for survival.

Disaster Horror: Centers on catastrophic events like natural disasters, often exploring human reaction and terror in the face of devastating calamities.

Mutant Horror: Focuses on mutated creatures or humans, often resulting from genetic manipulation, nuclear radiation, or scientific experiments.

Found Footage Horror: Utilizes a narrative technique where the story is presented as discovered footage, often creating a realistic or documentary-style presentation.

Kaiju Horror: Focuses on giant monstrous creatures, often depicting destruction, human insignificance, and fear of the unknown.

Infected Horror: Centers on people infected with a disease or parasite that alters behavior or appearance, often exploring themes of contagion and transformation.

Micro-budget Horror: Refers to horror films produced on extremely low budgets, often utilizing minimal resources to create effective horror.

Revenge Horror: Focuses on themes of revenge, often depicting characters seeking retribution for real or perceived wrongs.

Road Horror: Set on the open road or in vehicles, often exploring the fear and unpredictability of travel, strangers, or road-related terror.

Steampunk Horror: Blends elements of steampunk with horror, often featuring Victorian settings, steam-powered technology, and dark inventions.

Suburban Horror: Set in suburban neighborhoods, often exploring fears related to family, conformity, or hidden darkness beneath a façade of normality.

Superhero Horror: Combines elements of the superhero genre with horror, often exploring dark themes, antiheroes, or horrific powers.

Supernatural Teen Horror: Focuses on teenage characters dealing with supernatural elements, often blending coming-of-age themes with horror.

Surrealist Horror: Utilizes surreal imagery and themes, often creating an unsettling, dreamlike atmosphere that defies logic or reason.

Tech Horror: Focuses on technology and the fear of technological advancement, often exploring dystopian futures, artificial intelligence, or technological control.

Time Loop Horror: Involves characters trapped in a time loop, often repeating the same events, including terrifying or deadly scenarios.

Underground Horror: Set in underground environments like caves or tunnels, often exploring claustrophobia, darkness, and subterranean nightmares.

Vampire Romance Horror: Blends elements of romance with vampire-themed horror, often featuring love stories with vampire characters.

Vigilante Horror: Centers on vigilante characters taking the law into their own hands, often exploring themes of justice, morality, and revenge.

Virus Horror: Focuses on deadly viruses, often depicting outbreaks, quarantines, and the fear of contagion.

Wendigo Horror: Centers on the mythological creature Wendigo, often exploring themes of insatiable hunger, cannibalism, or Native American folklore.

Whale Horror: Focuses on whales or sea mammals, often exploring fears related to the ocean, marine life, or human interaction with these creatures.

Wilderness Horror: Set in remote wilderness areas, often exploring isolation, survival, and the terror of the unknown.

Witch Trial Horror: Depicts historical witch trials, often exploring themes of superstition, mass hysteria, and wrongful persecution.

World War Horror: Set during specific world wars, often blending historical events with horror elements.

Yokai Horror: Focuses on Japanese folklore creatures known as Yokai, often exploring traditional myths, cultural beliefs, and supernatural entities.

Zombie Survival Horror: Centers on characters struggling to survive in a world overrun by zombies, often emphasizing survival tactics, group dynamics, and fear.

Zombie Thriller Horror: Blends elements of thrillers with zombie horror, often featuring intense, suspenseful scenarios involving zombies.

Zoological Park Horror: Set in zoos or animal parks, often exploring fears related to captive animals, escape, or human interaction gone awry.

Meta-Horror: Plays with the conventions of the genre itself, often using self-referential humor or commentary on horror tropes.