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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8262060" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>I think you could say that the intensity of horror, but the <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Horror" target="_blank">different subgenre's of horror</a> are pretty distinct with a pretty well accepted grouping of themes & tropes that when combined are X type of horror. You can introduce other elements into it , but it's usually pretty important that the main themes & tropes being used color the things being added or vice versa. 28 days, the walking dead, world war z, the walking dead, shaun of the dead, the girl with all the gifts and many others are all zombie movies/shows, but not all of them are zombie horror. Two of them are comedy & one blnds a good bit of science fiction. TWD's descent into horror is more in the form of the shared emotional breakdown of everyone trying to hold the mental pieces together one more day while surviving with frequent thrusts into people are the real monsters. You could replace the zombies in TWD with xenoorphs aliens robots or even angry biker gangs & not need to change too much.</p><p></p><p>Stranger things is a good example of doing this because the two main themes that color everything are pretty much growing up & the 80s as 80's kids saw with a good dash of 80's movies stuff.<em> Everything</em> in stranger things is colored by those or somehow feeds into them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8262060, member: 93670"] I think you could say that the intensity of horror, but the [URL='https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Horror']different subgenre's of horror[/URL] are pretty distinct with a pretty well accepted grouping of themes & tropes that when combined are X type of horror. You can introduce other elements into it , but it's usually pretty important that the main themes & tropes being used color the things being added or vice versa. 28 days, the walking dead, world war z, the walking dead, shaun of the dead, the girl with all the gifts and many others are all zombie movies/shows, but not all of them are zombie horror. Two of them are comedy & one blnds a good bit of science fiction. TWD's descent into horror is more in the form of the shared emotional breakdown of everyone trying to hold the mental pieces together one more day while surviving with frequent thrusts into people are the real monsters. You could replace the zombies in TWD with xenoorphs aliens robots or even angry biker gangs & not need to change too much. Stranger things is a good example of doing this because the two main themes that color everything are pretty much growing up & the 80s as 80's kids saw with a good dash of 80's movies stuff.[I] Everything[/I] in stranger things is colored by those or somehow feeds into them. [/QUOTE]
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