Action Horror
A subgenre that combines the horror of evil forces or supernatural entities with the adrenaline-fueled fights and intense chases typical of action films.
Genres
Animated Horror
Animated stories that explore the horror genre, featuring terrifying creatures and dark, twisted storylines.
Anthology Horror
A genre that weaves together multiple, often unrelated, short stories or segments into a single film or series, either to explore various horror themes or offer different perspectives on a common theme.
Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Stories about the struggle to survive during an imminent collapse of civilization or in the aftermath of a global catastrophe that has created a bleak and frightening new reality.
Arthouse Horror
Visually striking stories that use atmospheric building, cinematic style, and philosophical themes to create a sense of dread, rather than relying on straightforward scares.
Black Horror
Black horror is a subgenre that centers around African-American characters and narratives. It frequently incorporates social and political commentary, juxtaposing racism and other real-life experiences of Black Americans with common horror themes and tropes.
Body Horror
Violent stories that focus on grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body, causing physical or psychological trauma.
Camp & Kitsch
Stories with more creativity than budget and an over-the-top style, using humor or satire to subvert traditional horror conventions.
Comedy Horror
Tales that blend both humor and fear, employing techniques such as dark humor, parodies, or spoofs to challenge and overturn traditional genre expectations.
Cosmic Horror
Stories about the horror of the unknown and incomprehensible, often involving themes of madness and cosmic dread.
Crime & Mystery
Intriguing tales that blend elements of mystery with the eerie and unsettling, exploring the unknown, the perverse, the corrupt, and the fear that lurks in the shadows.
Dark Fantasy
Horror stories with fantastical elements such as magic, strange creatures, and mythical or medieval settings.
Documentary
Stories told through testimonies and interviews, exploring the history, cultural significance, and creative process of horror works, as well as real-life events, people, and places associated with horror or the supernatural.
East Asian Horror
Tales based on traditional east Asian legends and beliefs, often exploring themes of guilt, revenge, and death, featuring a unique atmospheric style that emphasizes psychological themes, suspense, and mood over graphic violence.
Family-Friendly Horror
A subgenre that offers spooky thrills for younger audiences, usually balancing scares with humor and adventure, making it enjoyable for families to experience together.
Folklore & Mythology
Stories that revolve around regular people facing urban legends, familiar folktales, and old myths.
Found Footage
Tales that are told through discovered footage and recordings, creating a sense of realism and immediacy.
Giallo
A stylish blend of the atmosphere and suspense of a thriller with horror, eroticism, and crime.
Gore & Splatter
Shocking stories with an excessive amount of blood, guts, and dismembered body parts, displaying a fascination with the vulnerability of the human body and its mutilation.
Gothic Horror
Atmospheric stories set in oppressive, bleak environments that often become characters in their own right.
Haunted Houses
Paranormal stories in which houses are haunted by the spirits of former residents or beings connected to the property.
Holiday Horror
Dark and spooky stories set around major and obscure holidays, incorporating elements, characters, or traditions of the holiday into the plot.
Home invasion
Stories where individuals or families are face physical and psychological torment as they are threatened by intruders invading their own home, creating a sense of vulnerability and fear in the supposed safety of one's own living space.
Horror Western
A genre that fuses the eerie, spine-chilling elements of horror with the rugged, untamed backdrop of a Western. Set against the desolate, unforgiving landscapes of the American West, these stories draw on the isolation and lawlessness of the frontier to heighten the sense of dread and terror.
Infection & Disease
Stories featuring viruses and diseases that spread uncontrollably or inadvertently, causing the sick to bring death to those around them.
Monsters & Creatures
Inhuman beings of various sizes and forms terrorize, kill, or destroy everything in their path.
Natural Horror
Stories where the natural environment is portrayed as a source of terror, with threats from ecological disasters, environmental collapse, or monstrous creatures, often with themes of humanity's impact on the environment.
Psychological horror
A genre that explores themes of trauma, anxiety, fear, and dread, often causing characters to become unstable or disturbed.
Queer Horror
A genre that blends horror with LGBTQ+ perspectives, often exploring themes of identity, marginalization, and transformation. These stories might use horror tropes as metaphors for struggles faced by queer individuals, or subvert traditional tropes by presenting queer characters and narratives as central figures rather than stereotypes or secondary roles.
Religious horror
Stories that treat the themes and motifs of a real-life religion as facts within the story’s universe, leading protagonists to face demons, possession, rituals, and other supernatural forces.
Sci-Fi Horror
A blend of horror and science fiction, this genre features stories that delve into the fear and uncertainty stemming from morally questionable experiments, uncontrolled scientific advances, or the discovery of the unknown, along with the potential dangers they bring.
Slasher
A group of people will fight for survival against a mysterious killer (sometimes with supernatural powers) who relentlessly stalks and picks them off one by one.
Supernatural & Paranormal
Stories featuring horrors that defy our understanding and are beyond human experience, leaving us to confront the unknown and the incomprehensible.
Survival Horror
Stories about characters struggling to survive against overwhelming odds and threats, often facing desperate circumstances as they fight to stay alive.
Teen Horror
Adolescence becomes more complicated when horror elements are introduced in stories that explore themes of peer pressure, relationships, and fitting in, while the protagonists have to deal with supernatural, criminal, or psychological fears.
Vampires
Stories about beings that roam at night and need to feed on blood to survive, often exploring themes of immortality and the dark side of human nature.
Werewolves
In these stories, a shapeshifting human becomes a wolf-like creature at night and kills everything in its path, often unwillingly, exploring themes of curses, primal instincts, and the struggle to control one's own nature.
Witchcraft & Occultism
These stories blend elements of the paranormal and folklore, delving into the mysteries of the mystic, arcane, pagan, and the dark side of human nature.
Zombies
In these stories, the dead rise from their graves and become (almost) unstoppable, killing or feeding on the living as they roam the earth as shambling, rotting corpses.