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Comedy horror combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. It can be categorized under three types: "black comedy, parody and spoof." Comedy horror will often use satire on horror clichés as its main source of humour or take a story in a different perspective, such as  'The cabin in the woods'  and 'Drag Me to Hell'. In comedy horror film, gallows humour is a common element. While comedy horror films provide scares for audiences, they also provide something that dramatic horror films do not: "the permission to laugh at your fears, to whistle past the cinematic graveyard and feel secure in the knowledge that the monsters can't get you". Example of Comedy horror: Scary Movie, Shaun of the Dead, Gremlins and Zombieland

IMR - Institutional Mode of Representation In film theory, the Institutional Mode of Representation is the style of films that developed during the classic era of Hollywood Cinema and continues to this day... The 'Primitive Style': The 'Primitive Style' of movie making predated classical Hollywood's continuity system. (IMR) These techniques include frontal staging or a tableau style, exaggerated gestures, hardly any camera movement and no point of view shots. Remember early cinema was silent and unsophisticated, more like melodramatic mime. Some of the innovations developed from birth of a nation D.W. Griffith (1915) The length of each shot was designed to influence our emotional response, with dramatic scenes cut faster. The film was edited to create a lengthy, dramatic epic narrative. Subtitles were used. Griffith filmed at night. He used tinting extensively. Used panning. He perfected close ups to convey emotion. Cross - cutting. Varied camer...

Psychological - relies on a characters fears, guilt and belief, e.g. the shining, the ring and the exorcist. Parody - Combines elements of comedy and horror fiction, e.g. scary movie, Shaun of the dead and Gremlins. Slasher - Deals with a lot of violence which usually revolves around psychopathic killer and numerous amounts of victims. They can also be built up with a lot of mystery and may sometimes overlap with crime, e.g. Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Zombie Horror - Portray reliving corpses or mindless humans that feed off of the living, e.g. night of the living dead and I am legend. Supernatural horror - Includes ghosts, demons, or other depictions of supernatural occurrences. Often, Supernatural-Horror films combine elements of religion into the plot. Common themes in Supernatural-Horror films include the afterlife, the devil, and demonic possession. Body horror - The horror is principally derived from the graphic degeneration or destruction of the physical b...