History Main / ActionHorror

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': The story deals with the Hellsing Organization and their mission to protect humanity from monsters like vampires and werewolves. There is blood, gore, nightmarish imagery, and gun fights, often courtesy of Alucard, who is literally Count {{Dracula}} himself as a NinetiesAntiHero.

* ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' is a Cyberpunk action film combining elements of BodyHorror, in which a psychic teenager goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge which eventually causes his former friend to try and put a stop to him.

* ''Film/RaceWithTheDevil'' is a mix of a '70s ReligiousHorror film and a '70s car chase movie, in which two couples on a road trip in an RV encounter a [[ReligionOfEvil Satanic cult]] carrying out a HumanSacrifice, who proceed to chase them across the state of Texas in order to kill them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Redfall}}'' is an upcoming first person survival horror game about four survivors attempting to escape a town under siege from vampires.

* ''Film/ThePurge'' entered this with its sequels. While [[Film/ThePurge1 the first film]] was contained to a single house and played out like a conventional [[ProtectThisHouse home invasion movie]], later films and [[Series/ThePurge the TV series]] more fully explored the premise of there being one night a year where all crime was legal, and focused on people fighting to survive amidst the [[AnarchyIsChaos urban anarchy and mayhem]] that characterized the titular holiday.

* WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}, an adaptation of the VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} video games, focuses on a trio of monster hunters battling through hordes of demons and vampires that are trying to destroy or enslave humanity.

* WesternAnimation/Castlevania, an adaptation of the VideoGame/Castlevania video games, focuses on a trio of monster hunters battling through hordes of demons and vampires that are trying to destroy or enslave humanity.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': The first two parts, ''Manga/PhantomBlood'' and ''Manga/BattleTendency'', are {{Shonen}} action stories with strong horror elements as the antagonists are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent extremely powerful vampires]]. Thankfully, the heroes use a {{Supernatural Martial Art|s}} which lets them wield ThePowerOfTheSun against their undead foes, but it's made very clear how helpless and outmatched the {{Innocent Bystander}}s and {{Red Shirt}}s are against them. This is topped with a hefty dose of BodyHorror, especially when the Pillar Men are involved. Horror elements are much rarer in the later parts, however.

* Some of the films of Wrestling/ElSanto edge into this, pitting the famous MaskedLuchador against [[MonsterMash classic movie monsters]]. Of these, ''Santo Contra Las Mujeres Vampiros'' (or, as it's known in the English dub, ''Film/SamsonVsTheVampireWomen''), is probably the best-known outside of Mexico. Imagine a Franchise/UniversalHorror movie punched up by occasional wrestling matches.

* Franchise/UniversalHorror:

* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'': The [[VideoGame/DeadSpace1 first game]] in the series focused more on horror, albeit with some action shooter touches like upgradable weapons and a more fluid, over-the-shoulder combat system. The [[VideoGame/DeadSpace2 second game]], however, featured a greater mix of action and horror sequences, while the [[VideoGame/DeadSpace3 third game]] was almost a straight-up action game.

* ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness'', based on the true story of John Henry Patterson and the Tsavo maneaters (a pair of lions who killed 28 people), is about a big-game hunter/engineer tasked with building a railway through Uganda. He must contend with two man-eating lions who begin preying on his work force shortly after his arrival and whose ability to elude all attempts bring them down borders on the supernatural.

* The DarkerAndEdgier installments in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise often veer into this territory from the action side, depicting a {{kaiju}} attack as a horrifying event comparable to [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki an atomic bomb]] or a natural disaster and emphasizing the sheer body count and national trauma that such a thing would cause. The [[Film/Godzilla1954 original 1954 film]], of course, was the trendsetter here, portraying the titular monster as an apocalyptic force of nature that most human weapons are [[TheWorfBarrage completely useless against]]. While most later films would focus on action spectacle and {{Behemoth Battle}}s, a number of films (especially reboots) would return to the 1954 film's grim, horrifying tone, most notably ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'', the [[Film/Godzilla2014 2014 American adaptation]], and ''Film/ShinGodzilla''.

* While the first season of ''Series/StrangerThings'' is closer to straightforward SciFiHorror, the show's genre-blending being more with the coming-of-age films of TheEighties, its BigBudgetBeefUp in subsequent seasons saw it turn increasingly action-heavy, with growing numbers of shootouts and monster battles. Among other things, season two had a secret government lab being overrun by monsters in scenes straight out of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', season three introduced [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre the KGB]] as villains and climaxed with a battle against a giant monster in a shopping mall, and season four has a character escaping a Siberian [[TheGulag gulag]] in a scene filled with explosions, shootouts, and a getaway on a snowmobile.

* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' has a group of high school students and a nurse who are all capable of fighting against zombies. While it looked like a SurvivalHorror at first, the series leans to more action once the main cast armed themselves with CoolGuns, courtesy of the nurse's friend who is a police officer.
* The first two parts of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', ''Manga/PhantomBlood'' and ''Manga/BattleTendency'', are {{Shonen}} action stories with strong horror elements as the antagonists are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent extremely powerful vampires]]. Thankfully, the heroes use a {{Supernatural Martial Art|s}} which lets them wield ThePowerOfTheSun against their undead foes, but it's made very clear how helpless and outmatched the {{Innocent Bystander}}s and {{Red Shirt}}s are against them. This is topped with a hefty dose of BodyHorror, especially when the Pillar Men are involved. Horror elements are much rarer in the later parts, however.