Research into our chosen genre

Our chosen genre is horror and we have started to research that, we have found that there are many sub-genres to horror and these are; teen horror, slasher, satanic, vampire, alien, evil children etc. Horror is often crossed with other genres, we have found that the most popular one is science fiction. Horror films have been around for along time and the very first ones are in gothic styles that were usually set in big houses and haunted castles or mansions and they were usually based on mad-scientists, monsters, vampies and devils.