Horror film examples

Here are a few examples of horror films that were successful:

Slashers:
Saw
Scream
Hostel
Halloween
A nightmare on Elm street
The Texas chainsaw massacre

Psychological horror films:
The silence of the lambs
The Babadook
The others
Psycho
The shining

Zombie horror films;
Zombie Land
28 days later
28 weeks later
night of the living dead
Dawn of the dead
Shaun of the dead

Action horror:
Dog soldiers
World war Z
The host
Troll hunter
Blade
They live

Body horror:
The thing
Contracted
Tusk
The fly
The beast within

Comedy horror:
The cabin in the woods
Scary movie
Zombieland
Beetlejuice
Dead alive

Gothic horror:
The others
Frankenstein
Nosferatu
Sleepy hollow

Sci-fi horror:
Alien
Predator
Then thing
The fly
Event horizon

I felt that showing some examples from each sub-genre could leave me space to try and take aspects from certain films to put into my own work. More successful horror films from these genres have included multiple features and with this information i found that most of the successful horror films have very obvious binary opposition which is presented through the use of different lighting and other things and the semiotics from this create an image of the monster and the hero. It has influenced my final idea as i think that trying to incorporate ideas from some of the popular sub-genres will make the final piece the best it can be. I will take the murderous villain from slasher films, the enigmas from psychological thrillers and also the action piece at the very start from Action horror.