SUB-GENRESA sub-genre is a certain type of film genre. By this I mean a variation, or a more detailed version, of the classic genre. This includes things such as Romantic Comedies, Psychological Thrillers and Zombie Horror. All of the sub-genres are different in their own right and have become their own separate entity from the classic genre title. For the genre of horror, there are vast amounts of examples we could have used such as Psychological, Supernatural, Slasher and Zombie.
We chose to make a Psychological thriller heavily influenced by the Slasher genre. |
WHY WE CHOSE TO MAKE A 'SLASHER' MOVIE
It was really important to our group that our horror movie would have the potential to be popular and successful. We decided that our horror movie 'The Sanctuary' would fit the sub-genre slasher. Having spent a lot of time researching the different sub-genres of horror and the success that different films from these genres had made, we came to the decision that a slasher movie would be perfect; it was likely to be successful and movies in this category were incredibly popular. Slashers were also the most popular genre in our horror questionnaire. 'The Sanctuary' fit perfectly into this genre because of the gruesome style of murder and the vast amounts of gore. The amount of gore that was going to be included in 'The Sanctuary' became a huge focus of ours since we knew that it would not appeal to all audience types and we did not want to mislabel it. We also knew that 'The Sanctuary' was destined to be an 18 and the slasher genre encompasses some of the most successful 18 rated horrors ever produced. Our film challenges many of the traditional horror codes and conventions, but at the core still depicts the bloody traits of a slasher due to the groups killings which would be displayed later in the full film.