So what's everyone's favorite sub-genre?
 

Is it vampires or werewolves or zombies or possessed kids or what? And what's your favorite sub-sub-genre? Do you like Italian zombies or sexy euro vamps running in slo-mo or possessed masturbating nuns or whatever else floats your boat? Do you like your werewolves Lon Chaney, Jr. or Dee Wallace Stone?

well, Italian Zombies scare the crap out of me, so that could be considered my favorite. I also like the exploitation horror movies like Last House on the Left. But as of late I find myself mostly interested in the post-Ringu era of Japanese Horror.

Too hard to pick a favorite....I like some slashers as much as I do supernatural films, some supernaturals as much as monsters...it's hard to narrow it down to one specific sub-genre, but if you held a gun to my head I'd have to say "supernatural/occult", in the broadest sense of the term.

I'm a sucker for zombies. Be it The Video Dead or Night of the Living Dead, I love it.

I too am partial to zombies. I prefer the euro undead, especially Italian. I like the bad acting, nudity, horrible dubbed dialogue, rotting zombies complete with writhing worms, and especially a good electronic score!!!!

I haven't seen Video Dead in yrs. I would love to see that again. And when I say years, I'm talking about its original video release!!!

well euro werewolf (lycanthrope) movies old and new ones..

there just the best type of flick u can get:D

Well you have to find it Dr. K. It's the best in Z-grade cinema.

I love mindfucks (The 6th Sense, Session 9) but Slashers take the cake, I love enjoyable, entertaining, gory movies where teenagers run around and get killed.

I also really love possesed kid movies. Creepy Shite.

This isnt really a subgenre but Im recently really getting into old 50's 60's and 70's horror. House on Haunted Hill, The Fog, The Terror, Night of the Living dead. They are all great!

I totally agree w/orangestar. Mindfucks and slasher films.

vampires nuff said

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My fav. is tied between Vampyre and Werewolves. I love Vampyre for their passion for the living LOL, plus the idea of living forever is really starting to grow on me. Stokers Dracula, was so kool, his troubled heart for his lost Nina. Plus the goth chicks in Blade were HOT!!!! As for werewolves (lycanthrope) a disease not something brought on by choice, Lon Chaney was my fav. He seemed like such a tortured soul. Plus I think his werewolf was the coolest looking. American Werewolf in London was another of my favs. seeing the transformation was awesome, I was felt that it would probably be a painful one.

Anne Rice's version of vampires.

Vampires again??? ^_^
 

Creeper, I know what you're saying, but here's where I run into a problem with the lovely living dead.

Okay, one of my first novel attemps was to right the best vampire book I could possibly right. How can anyone go wrong? Right, but at fifteen, I was already so sick of vampires, that I couldn't do it. What I was trying to do was make them both pretty and SCARY, because I like the beauty thing, but that almost makes audiences less able to take them serious.

I mean, if some beautiful goth dude came up to me and was like, "I'm a vampire, wanna fuck"....I'd have to laugh (and wonder what he was on). And there are a lot of people who'd be like, "Sure," just for the thrill of it all. I'd want some proof

So, is there a way, since we know they're pretty, to make really scary again? For instance, you probably know this, but John Polidori's story, "La Vampyre," was actually the Byronic beauty that we all know and love, and mean as shit vampire. Lord Ruthven, was actually, Stoker's main charcter inspiration. Dracula the name, and location, were really the only major points he borrowed from Tsepse. (Wrote a big a big thesis on that.)
But Dracula and Ruthven scared the shit out of people in the nineteenth AND twentieth century. Why are we not fightened any more?

And if you put two and two together, Lord Byron was the inspiration behind them all (even Varney). So the beauty is not new. So where did the scarey go?

Oh, so my favorite genre as far as something scary is zombies. So if you hand me a HOT vampire dude in a castle full of zombies...you got me. (For the love all things holy, do not say Castlevania!):D

favorites...hmmm..........i just can't resist a good slasher flick. with monster movies a close second

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i like vampires and the sexi european ones, ooooooor the weird ones frm transelvania!!!!!i think it'd be cool to be a vampire, u get to live forever (or until that whore buffy comes along) and u get to drink bolld!! hello sounds like a party to me!!! lmao although i dont hthink i'd drink human blood and im a chiclaterrian so i'd either drink pig (which isnt bad) or goats blood. although w/ drinking goats blood ppl would link that to devil worshiping and im cathloic so that wouldnt be good! but who cares anyone kno where i could find a good vampire?:)

Re: Vampires again??? ^_^
 

Haunted,

this is where Hollywood has missed the target but hit the tree, Dracula and Interview w/ a Vampyre turned the Vampyre into something that you could feel compassion for, even love them. Even though they are horrible creatures of the night, they have taken the scary out of them and gave them personality that you can relate. A tortured soul, romantic and beautiful, sexual stimulating who cares if he drains everyone of their blood. Dusk til Dawn, I thought at least, brought back the vampyre that was the killer that frightened people. I see where you are coming from whereas making the character scary as hell but romantic and beautiful would be quite difficult. Thats why I added Werewolves to the mix, thru no fault of their own they are stricken w/Lycanthrope, which may make an easier transition into a beautiful creature and a thing of evil being one in the same because they are almost 2 seperate entities. A Vampyre cannot change what it is at will or by the drawing of the full moon, it is what it is. Werewolves on the other hand could be a Preacher for example( See Silver Bullet) and yet still be a murderous creature. Although I will admit that in that film the Preacher new what he was and why he did what he did. So I guess that kind of shoots holes in my synopsis doesnt it.

Oh well, I think zombies are cool 2, nothing like "Brains" LOL