Action Horror
A sub-genre combing the intrusion of an evil force, event, or supernatural personage of horror movies with the gunfights and frenetic chases of the action genre. Themes or elements often prevalent in typical action-horror films include gore, demons, vicious animals, vampires and, most commonly, zombies. This category also fuses the fantasy genre. Examples include Resident Evil, Ghost Rider, Doomsday, Dawn of the Dead and Blade.
Body Horror
In which the horror is principally derived from the graphic destruction or degeneration of the body. Other types of body horror include unnatural movements, or the anatomically incorrect placement of limbs to create 'monsters' out of human body parts. David Cronenberg is one of the notable directors of this genre. A few body horror examples include Frankenstein, The Invasion, The Fly, The Thing, Hellraiser and Cabin Fever.
Comedy Horror
Combines the elements of comedy and horror fiction. The short story 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving is cited as "the first great comedy-horror story" in 1949 (novel published in 1820). Examples for this genre include An American Werewolf in London, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gremlins, Beetlejuice and Shaun of the Dead.
Gothic Horror
A type of genre that contains elements of goth and horror. At times it may have romance that unfolds in the setting of a horror tale, usually suspenseful. Some of the earliest horror films were of this sub-genre. Examples include universal films such as The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy.
Modern gothic horror include Interview with the Vampire, The Wolfman, Dorian Gray and The Woman in Black.
Natural Horror
A sub-genre of hororr films 'featuring nature running amok in the form of mutated beasts, carnivorous insects and normally harmless animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers'. This genre may sometimes overlap with the science fiction/adventure genre. Examples include Jaws, Deep Rising, The Swarm, Primeval, Anaconda and Snakes on a Plane.
Psychological Horror
Relies on characters' fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music, emotional instability and at times, the supernatural and ghosts, to build tension and further the plot. Examples include A Tale of Two Sisters, The Exorcist, The Others, The Mothman Prophecies, The Blair Witch Project, The Shining, Sinister, The Changeling and The Sixth Sense.
Science Fiction Horror
Often revolves around subjects that include, but are not limited to killer aliens, mad scientists and/or experiments gone wrong. Examples include Alien, Pandorum, Apollo 18 and It Came from Outer Space.
Slasher Film
Often revolves around a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, mainly with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe. Slasher films may at times overlap with crime, mystery and the thriller genre and are not all of the horror genre. Examples of this include Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prom Night, Scream, Friday the 13th, Candyman and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Splatter Film
These films deliberately focus on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. Through the use of special effects and excessive blood and guts, they tend to display an overt interest in the vulnerability of the human body and the theatricality of its mutilation. Not all splatter films are slashers and not all slasher films are horrors. Examples include Cannibal Holocaust, Blood Feast, Saw, Inside, The Collector and The Midnight Meat Train.
Zombie Film
Films of this sub-genre features creatures who are usually portrayed as either reanimated corpses or mindless human beings. Distinct sub-genres have evolved, such as the 'zombie comedy' or the 'zombie apocalypse'. Examples include Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead and I Am Legend.
Teen Horror
This sub-genre revolves completely around teenagers. Typically, these films have a large cast and a clear hero or heroine. Teen-Horror films often play upon traditional teenage issues, such as dating and prom, turning them into suspenseful and thrilling situations. Examples of this are I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Supernatural Horror
This sub-genre include ghosts, demons, or other depictions of supernatural occurrences. Often, Supernatural-Horror films combine elements of religion into the plot. Common themes in this sub-genre include the afterlife, the devil and the demonic possession. Examples include The Exorcist, The Ring and The Omen.
(information from Wiki and http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/horror)
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