9 SUBGENRES OF HORROR Zombie Example- The Crazies - Extremely Popular - Can cross over into other genres, such as comedy and science fiction. -Zombies can be used to represent a variety of social issues in today's society, such as the overwhelming use of social media, as well as a metaphor for consumerism. -Successful Zombie Films include 'Shaun of the Dead', 'Zombieland', and 'World War Z' J-Horror Example- The Grudge -Originate from Japan, product of typical far-eastern culture. -Often J-Horror films are poorly remade by Western Conglomerates, such as 'The Grudge'. Slow and methodical build is strongly featured in J-Horror, rather than the jumpscare-laden Western Horror films. Splatter Example- SAW -Concentrate heavily on the use of vulgar imagery and blood to achieve their intended aims. -They will often feature sexually suggestive imagery in addition to the vi...
All types of media have certain conventions that need to be adhered to in order to be recognised as a part of their respective genre. Specifically to the film industry, there is the horror sub genre, and then even more specific sub-sub genres, such as Splatter, Slasher, etc. As a result, there are very specific conventions related to my media product, with the important factor being that the conventions take on newer meanings each time they are repeated or slightly subverted. For my Media AS Level, I created a music magazine that exhibited various features and conventions due to me copying a current music magazine and using it as an inspiration. However, the difference is, I did not understand the conventions properly, I was just utilising them due to a knowledge that they were commonplace in RMT. I did not display a great deal of creativity in this manner, rather predictably, due to my lack of any real understanding of what the numerous conventions of music magazines mea...
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