Sub Genres

The horror genre has many sub-genres. These are, ultimately, genres within genres that help define horror movies further. I have conducted a short research into both psychological and teen horror.

Psychological Horror
This sub genre involves the antagonist being a relatively normal character in physical terms, but is normally mentally abnormal, e.g psycho or sociopathical. He/she will torment the protagonist by means of threats, psychological torture and kills of monster fodder before commiting to a physical attack. These movies are generally fairly simplistic, low budgeted and use little gore/special effects, an example of psychological horror is The Sixth Sense.

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Teen Horror
This involves young, defenceless teens and an antagonist. Normally, the teens are in a vulnerable situation (i.e a party) as is depicted in the film Shrooms. In this movie the teens are taking drugs in the wilderness when the antagonist attacks, leaving the teens unable to call for adult help (a common trait of teen horror movies). The Antagonist is also portrayed to be an older, more powerful being - as is the case in nightmare on elm street. This sub genre uses more special effects in the form of gore, making it harder to film on my budget.