Genres & Sub-genres

The knife, the mask, the night. From Carpenter's Halloween to the hyperviolent slashers of the 2020s.

Horror seen through the victims' camera. From Blair Witch to Host, the most immersive genre.

Horror that lives in your head. Hereditary, Midsommar, Black Swan — terror without special effects.

Haunted houses, entities, ghosts. Supernatural horror in all its forms.

Nature as the enemy. Shipwrecked, lost in the woods, trapped — the horror of the physical world.

The body that transforms, tears, betrays its owner. From Cronenberg to Ducournau.

Isolated villages, ancestral rituals, murderous traditions. The Witch, Midsommar, The Wicker Man.

Japanese horror and its longevity, from Ringu to Ju-On. Fear from across the Pacific.

Undead, infections, apocalypses. From Romero to Train to Busan, a genre that never dies.

When horror laughs at itself. Shaun of the Dead, Tucker & Dale, One Cut of the Dead.

Immortal, seductive, bloodthirsty. From Nosferatu to the contemporary vampirism of Let the Right One In.

The Exorcist, The Conjuring, Veronica — demonic horror and the fight against the invisible.