Horror genre

The horror genre is a target for the adult audience that focuses on violence, blood, gore, deaths, and sometimes supernatural elements.

Horror films have been around for over a century and it's true rise to it's popularity began in the 1930s with universal monster movies such as The Invisible man, Frankenstein and Dracula (Previously known as Nosferatu.) and the slasher genre became part of the horror genre since the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

A common horror theme was a killer to murder innocent people (Teens to adults).

During the early 1990s the horror genre felt very boring as it was beginning to lose interest and it's audience until 1996 with Kevin Williamson's "SCREAM" which re-awoke the horror genre.

The horror icons were Dracula, Frankenstein, Invisible man, and the Wolf Man (Later known as the Werewolf) but from the 1970s to the 1990s there was Chucky, Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers (Not the actor from Shrek), Jason Vorhees, Ghostface and Leatherface.

They are usually set at a specific time (Past, Present and Future), they can be set in a fictional or real place either in a town(Like Halloween), a hotel (Like Psycho), a campsite (Like Friday the 13th), in Space (Like Alien), in a dream (Like Nightmare on Elm St.) or in a school/collage (Like Scream 2)

Killers usually have weapons like a machete, kitchen knife, chainsaw, or mostly their hands.

The storyline usually have a group of people arriving somewhere and get killed off indivisibly in creative different ways or intervals in other words.

There was a craze of Horror remakes that started in the 2000s with Texas Chainsaw Massacre's 2003 re-make.