Horror Hybrids

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Horror Hybrids and Sub Genres By Siân, Nicole, James and Adam

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Horror hybrids and sub-genres by Adam, James, Nicole and Sian

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Horror Hybrids and Sub Genres

By Siân, Nicole, James and Adam

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What is a Sub Genre?

Genre is defined as “category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content.”

A Sub genre can be any of the above. It is a category of works that forms a specific class within a larger genre.

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What are some of the Sub Genres of Horror?

Comedy Extraterrestrial Monster Teen Slasher Supernatural

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Comedy Horror Films

Comedy, more specifically comedy horror (a.k.a. horror comedy) is a sub-genre of horror films that combines horrific elements with comedic.

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Slasher Horror Films

Slasher film is a sub genre of the horror film genre typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a chainsaw or scythe. Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the slasher as a genre has its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres like the splatter film.

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Supernatural Horror Films

Supernatural films are those that depict events that appear beyond normal perceptions. This includes villains wielding impossible-to-believe abilities (magical or otherwise), demons etc.

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What is a Horror Hybrid?

A Hybrid is something of mixed origin or composition, when two films genres are combined together in order to create a combination of both the films.E.g the combination of a sci- fi film and a Horror - this is a hybrid.

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Examples of Horror Hybrids Deadlands – A cross between Western and Horror Alien – A cross between Sci-fi and Horror