Genre Research

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their purpose is to frighten the viewer and invoke our deepest fears whilst making them seem realistic, often leaving the viewer frightened even days after watching. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness.
Early horror movies are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula and Frankenstein. Sometimes horror films have been dismissed as violent, low budget exploitation films despite often having well respected directors. In recent years many old horror films have been remade and modernized making them much scarier and realistic than ever before.
Some horror films incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, mockumentary, black comedy, slasher, teen terror, serial killers and thrillers.
Some popular horror films are; Scream, The Ring, Prom Night, Hostel, Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist.

After researching the horror genre, I would like to do our film opening on it as I think it is the most interesting and creative genre out of the ones we discussed.