Because my film is about a zombie out break it will contain a lot of blood and suspense meaning horror/thriller.
However along the way there may be some comedy references so i believe the best genre for my film is horror-comedy.
A few similar examples are 'Shaun of the dead' and 'Zombieland'
They are both like the film i thought of, because they both are horror-comedy's with zombies featured in them, although unlike 'Shaun of the dead' where at the end everything is resolved, 'Zombieland' ends when things are still not resolved.
Because its a horror-comedy you expect the zombies to look covered in blood and have a ragged look.
However the comedy will have to come across in the dialogue like in 'Shaun of the dead' "That's the second album i ever bought" when a zombie was closing on them and they hesitated to throw it.
Also the zombies could look slightly comical like in 'Doghouse' starring Danny Dyer, there was one fat zombie that ate fingers on cake.
Or in another horror-comedy 'Lesbian vampire killers' where all the vampires were lesbians.
Also the film would have to make the audience tense and jump a few times, for instance having a zombie jump out on them. This is because you expect this from a horror or a thriller.
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror
In horror-comedy films gallows humor is a common element. While comedy horror films provide scares for audiences, they also provide something that horror films do not: "the permission to laugh at your fears, to whistle past the cinematic graveyard and feel secure in the knowledge that the monsters can't get you".
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