Sub Genre of Horror- Supernatural

As soon as you bring in anything supernatural or beyond this earth into a story, be it ghosts, demons, zombies, or alien invaders, the story becomes a supernatural horror. This sort of story links into a lot of different sub-genres of horror and includes a vast amount of undead villains such as Dracula, Anne Rice’s vampires, George Romero’s zombies in Night of the Living Dead or the demon in The Exorcist.




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Monster (also referred to as a monster film', creature feature or monster movie) is a name commonly given to films that are based around the struggle between human beings and one or more monsters. While there is no specific official genre classification of that name, the term is usually applied to films sometimes labeled as horror, fantasy, or science fiction films.


These films involve fictional creatures, but in most cases they are over-sized monsters, despite its beginnings with adaptations of horror folklore and books.


Typically, monsters in films differ from more traditional antagonists in that many exist due to circumstances beyond their control; their actions not entirely based on choice, potentially making them objects of empathy to film viewers. This can include scientific accidents and human disturbances of some sort.


Supernatural films are those that depict events that appear beyond normal perceptions e.g. paranormal activity. This includes villains wielding impossible-to-believe abilities (magical or otherwise), demons etc. It is argued that monster movies such as those that include vampires, werewolfes and dolls etc. should have their own categories as they can be seen as something other than a monster. Examples include Freddy Krueger, Chucky and Frankenstein.