What is genre? (Horror)

"Horror is what you might feel if you went, for example, into a jungle, or a place where you had lost all your bearings, where you were no longer sure of anything. A place where you begin to suspect that there was something present which you couldn't pin down; something which you wouldn't be able to identify but which could be dangerous and destroy you" - Nigel Kneeled in Wells, 2000

To get a good idea of what the horror genre stands for, i researched and brainstormed what 'genre' meant to me and what different types of genres there were in the film industry;

Genre:

• Translated to 'Type' in French
• Classification
• Pro's: indentifiable group
• Con's: May not 'fit'-hybrid genres
• Essentially a means of grouping different texts together and classifying them.

Genres in the film industry:

• Horror
• Comedy
• Thriller
• Romcom (Romantic comedy)
• Drama
• Satire
• Parody
• Slasher
• Sci-fi
• Fantasy
• Action
• Adventure