Horror Genre Examples

Corruption (haunted houses, weird mutations, Lovecraft)

• Alien
• The Fly
• The Exorcist
• The Haunting
  
• The Ring
  

Mayhem (Monster movies, Slasher Movies)

• Godzilla
• Aliens
• Halloween
• Jaws
• Friday the 13th
  

Decadence (morbid attitudes and obsessions; Marquis de Sade, Gothic Literature)

• The Castle of Otranto
  
• Picture of Dorian Gray
• Interview with the Vampire
• Dracula
• Perfume
  

Madness (psychological horror; think Poe and Lovecraft)

• Silence of the Lambs
• Psycho
• Seven
• The Bird with the Crystal Plummage
• Dressed to Kill