Every story has a tone; an atmosphere that permeates every page. It’s what makes us uncomfortable in a horror, or amused in a comedy. Tone is the thing that ...

A hybrid film is a genre that blends with another or multiple genres (Comedy-horror; Dark fantasy; Tragicomedy, etc). ‘Hybrid’ is the word I hear more often ...

Genres are largely identified by key story beats and thematic elements. But true ‘genre’ stories (swashbucklers, slasher films, sports movies) are rife with ...

From a birds-eye view, ‘Genre’ covers quite the range of storytelling elements — ‘western’ denotes setting; ‘romance’ denotes a relationship; ‘musical’ denot...

There are some things we expect from a certain kind of story. Nobody goes to a sports movie to see the heroes lose the big game; nobody goes to a superhero m...