Psychological Horror Subgenre
What is psychological horror? Psychological horror is a subgenre that combines horror and psychological fiction. What does this genre focus on? This genre focuses on mental, emotional, or psychological states in order to disturb the audience. The genre focuses on psychological fears like madness, anxiety, guilt, and paranoia. The genre uses elements of mystery and characters who have unstable, reliable, or disturbed psychological states. My group is researching 3 other horror sub-genres which is slasher (Dave), vampire (Lenny) and Paranormal (Lucas). In the end we will be choosing one of the genres and use it in our own horror film opening.
Major successful Psychological Horror Films
American Psycho (2000) Audition (1973)
-Takes place in New York City (1987) -Disturbing Japanese thriller (Ryo Ishibashi)
-Patrick Bateman lives as a gruesome -Release date: August 8, 2001
serial killer by night -Director: Takashi Miike
-Is a completely different character by -Box office: 131,296 USD
nighttime
-Box office: 34.3 million USD
-Budget: 7-8 million USD
My group will be using this research to take inspiration on which subgenre we will be choosing. Sub-genres allow the viewer to pinpoint more accurately what it is they want to watch. In our film opening we would like to have a subgenre in which our film falls under so that our main target audience can watch our film by basically pinpointing it. If it weren't for subgenres, many famous movies would just get lost under the vast horror genre with no categories to satisfy the viewer. My main decision in choosing to research Psychological Horror is to compare with my group members with their subgenres and we will decide on one of the subgenres to specify with our film opening. This will give us a direct idea of what we will be accomplishing within this project.
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