Horror Subgenres

Explore different types of horror films by subgenre.

Horror films featuring a killer stalking and murdering victims with bladed tools.

Movies about the undead rising to terrorize the living, often in apocalyptic scenarios.

Horror involving ghosts, demons, and other otherworldly entities.

Films that play with the mind, blurring the line between reality and delusion.

Features creatures, beasts, and monsters as the primary antagonists.

Graphic, blood-soaked horror with explicit violence and bodily mutilation.

Stories centered around buildings possessed by supernatural entities.

Deals with phenomena beyond scientific understanding and explanation.

Films featuring blood-drinking undead beings with supernatural powers.

Horror presented as discovered video recordings, often with shaky camera work.

Features secretive groups with extreme beliefs, often with ritualistic practices.

Draws on folklore, paganism, and rural traditions to create dread.

Focuses on the violation, transformation, or destruction of the human body.

Deals with magic, witchcraft, and hidden knowledge of the supernatural.