History Main / Horror

* '''MascotHorror:''' A video-game only variant that involves a horror story marketed by a seemingly child-friendly mascot, often with themes of SubvertedKidsShow. Related to but distinct from other cases of horror media with mascots (i.e. slasher films, creepypastas).

* ''Videogame/CallOfCthulhuTheWastedLand''

* ''[[Film/ThePitandthePendulum The Pit and the Pendulum]]''

* ''[[Film/NosferatutheVampyre Nosferatu the Vampyre]]'' (1979)

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''

* ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}''

* ''Film/TheFly'' (Both original and remake. Especially the remake.)

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* '''HorrorComedy:''' {{Comedy}} stories which parody horror tropes for laughs ([[BlackComedy often in a very morbid manner]]).

* '''SplatterHorror:''' Horror that uses the [[BloodyHorror fragility of the human body]] to scare. Currently TheScrappy of the horror genre, due to its association with {{Gorn}}, TorturePorn, and [[FollowTheLeader carbon-copy]] {{Slasher Movie}}s in recent decades.

Splatter horror goes to the other extreme. Excess rather than restraint. [[ScreamerTrailer Shock treatment]] instead of slow, ambient build-up. Visceral rather than cerebral. This is not to say it's not effective, which it can be, but that it can very easily get out of hand and leave so little to the imagination that the viewer quite quickly goes from afraid, to surprised, to the concession stand for more popcorn. Note that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad. The films ''{{Film/Psycho}}'', ''{{Film/Se7en}}'', and the original ''Film/SawI'', for instance, mix Splatter and Psychological Horror to great effect, and the drama of the live action version of ''Series/{{The Walking Dead}}'' is only enhanced by the tension of knowing that AnyoneCanDie a gruesome, visceral death at any moment.

* ''Film/{{Troll 2}}'', although it's more enjoyable [[{{Narm}} as a comedy]]

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories "The Edge of Destruction", "The Tenth Planet", and "Cold War". In fact, most serials that come under the subgenre {{Fan Nickname}}d "Base Under Siege" (like "The Ice Warriors" and "Fury From the Deep" for just a couple of examples).

Suspense, though not technically horror, tends to get lumped with horror beacuse they both want the same thing: to scare the viewer. However; both go about it different ways. Suspense relies on themes, tight plot, and subtlety over brute force. It uses camerawork with lots of shadows, and tends to either evoke claustrophobia, or isolating vastness. Lots of silence punctuated with creaking doors, or ambient sounds hinting at approaching danger. If there's a monster, it will appear in brief glimpses and silhouettes, and generally try [[NothingIsScarier to leave more to the imagination.]]

* ''Film/ResidentEvil''
** HEAVY emphasis on the 1 there, movie-wise.

* ''Music/{{Eminem}}''s {{Horrorcore}} songs, combined with shocking VulgarHumor, as his [[KayfabeMusic character]] Slim Shady murders people in ways so extreme that they raise [[LightmareFuel giggles and gasps]].