What is 'Horror Genre'?

Films within the genre of horror often strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness, they also often include a central villain. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality.

There are many respected film directors in relation to the genre of horror, including Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, William Friedkin, Richard Donner, and Francis Ford Coppola.

We had the choice of many genres of film such as action, science fiction, romance, comedy etc. We could have also chosen to create a hybrid genre where a genre borrows certain codes and conventions from other genres and becomes a mixture of more than one genre. After consideration we chose horror genre because we thought about our resources practically and thought that we could not create professional looking special effects for a science fiction or action movie trailer. We also decided that we would enjoy creating a horror genre trailer more than any other genre and so thought we would make a better final product if we enjoyed it.