Horror Film poster analysis.

Here are a number of film posters which have been analysed ruling out the codes and conventions & features allocated on horror posters.

Sub-genres

Within horror genres, there are also sub-genres. A Sub-genre is A subcategory within a particular genre. for example, horror in a general genre, a sub-genre of Horror can be:

• Aliens infuse this subgenre with relentless troublemaking. Interstitial with 'science fiction,' the source of terror is another planet, whose inhabitants are encountered there, or travel to our Earth, if not both. For example 'Alien V Predator'
  
• Dark Fantasy is an interstitial subgenre, and its stories generally feature human evil and strife, rather than supernatural monsters. For example, 'Jeepers Creepers'
• Erotic horror contains a strong sexual element. In this subgenre the sex can be explict, but it's often far from pleasurable. for example, the movie 'Teeth'
• Hauntings subgenre tales feature exactly this. Often the persistant ghost is a specific individual, somehow connected to the building or protagonist. The (supposedly true) novel and film The Amityville Horror are famous examples. 
• Holocaust tales involve mass deaths, whether during the horrific 20th century event of that name; or involving a similar tragedy, past or future. Those deaths might be due to human slaughter, or from a plague or monsters.

• Supernatural (demons, zombies, etc.) 
  These stories focus on various types of monster from 'beyond,' persistantly ruining the lives of a suffering humanity. Often the setting is an isolated village, where the protagonist becomes stranded. For example the exorcist 

• Slasher film is a type of horror film 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 knife oraxe. 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. For example, Chucky which is a huge famous slasher movie which is worldwide considering its grusome.