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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus
What about erotic/ body horror? Some of it might be sort of splatpunk, a lot of it might be sci-fi, but there are so many great movies about the body and the sex drive rebelling against itself that it would be a shame not to go give these room to breathe. The list could even be divided by which horror masterworks something branched off from.
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Hey, Doc... Can you give a secific example? I'm intrigued with the subgenre, but I can't identify any films... Possibly tetsuo? Maybe even American Psycho (it's not as simple as "slasher" I would argue)... Could you elaborate?
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V, I would definitely add "
Torture Porn" to this list. With the popularity of Hostel and Saw, I feel as though that this subgenre is definitely more than "slasher," though it generally gets swept under the ubiquitous rug of the Slasher. Texas Chainsaw Massacre even meanders into this territory, especially with "The Beginning." You also see this with Rob Zombie films (Devil's Reject's, for example, would be "Torture Porn," and not simply "slasher").
In that vein, I believe that movies like I Spit On Your Grave and Last House on the Left,
could be considered either "Slasher" or "Torture Porn," but these might be better categorized as just plain "
Revenge" (also consider "Ichi The Killer," which is incredibly popular in the realm of horror).
This sub-genre might also be considered "
Shock," "
Schlock," or "
Exploitation" horror, as made popular with the 70s films that Grindhouse is emulating. Exploitation horror was really the birth of Torture Porn.
Also, I have slight issues with "Ghost" being grouped with "Haunted House" because "Haunted House" would be the grander Sub-Genre, under which "Slasher" or even "Sci-Fi" were spawned (example: Halloween, though slasher is "Haunted House," and "Alien," though scifi could be considered "Haunted House")... I would argue that it was the genre "Haunted House" that berthed the other sub-genres... So I think you might be better off as having the sub-genre labelled "
Ghost/Super Natural" (to account for Grudge, Poltergeist, AND The Ring and similar movies).
If you wanted to talk about "Zombies/Re-animations," you have to consider "
Infection," "Disease" ("Medical Horror"?) as a sub-genre. For example, movies like 28 Days/Weeks, Black Sheep, Matango, are categorized as "Zombie" when "Infection" is defintely more accurate.
And now that we're discussing Zombies, how about "
Post Apocalyptic Horror"? This is most certainly a sub-genre that is spawned from the above.
In regards to "Slasher," you might want to consider "Home Invasion" or "
Seige" as a sub-genre (Dawn of the Dead, for example, is very much "Seige," and so is Aliens). Hills Have Eyes would certainly fall into this category.
You have "Mythical Creatures," but I would argue that this is WAY too broad and you should allow for the sub-genre of
Giant Monster, possibly one of the more classic and well-known sub-genres of horror (Godzilla, The Host, Cloverfield).
And can we also be careful with the use of "Gothic"? Part of the characteristic of "Gothic Horror" is the purposeful and horrific perversion of nature. For example, Frankenstein, when originally written by Shelly, was considered "Gothic Horror" (followed by the themes and writings of Edgar Allan Poe - they certainly defined the genre, in a classical sense).
.................. Aaaaaaaaaaaand there's my two cents (with a little help from the boyfriend).