The stages of a genre developing is a long process. The Horror genre developed in the 1930s from Gothic Horrors like Frankenstein. However, the genres seminal/pro-type were films like "psycho" which was made in the 60s. These Slashers started the tension building that you see in Horrors, even Horror films today still use the style seen in these films for example the basis of a Slasher film is that a man goes around killing several girls which are seen to be "slutty" and the final girl is a "virgin" this all started from "Psycho".
The Classic Horrors are "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" these films aren't typically scary but do have some jump scares. They are Classics as they follow the typical conventions of Horror films from the Protypes. Even though these Horrors aren't seen as typically good or scary they have contributed to the genre and have made what is it today.
Next are the Revisionists these Horror films reference to the old protype however make it more interesting and fun as the genre starts to get boring after the classics. These are films like "Scream" it has a lot of reference to "psycho" which is seen as the first slasher film however I feel as if "Scream" is much scarier and modern but still follows some conventions but also going against some allowing new sub-genres to emerge.
Parodics are which typically take a film from the classics and revisionists and pretty much make it into a comedy which isn't really that scary for example "scary movie" which is taking influences from "scream" but making it funny and it is very over-exaggerated.
Finally, there is a Hybrid which is where two genres combine for example Horror and Sci-fi this allows the film to be much more interesting and different from stereotypical horror films. An example of a film that has both genres is "The FLY" which again combines horror and Sci-fi. I think this is more interesting as it harder for the audience to predict what will happen.
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