This sub-genre would be mined by dozens of increasingly violent movies throughout the subsequent decades, and Halloween became a successful independent film.

* Progressive folk music, originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, in the UK the term became attached to a sub-genre that encourages stylistic or thematic innovation

* Progressive folk music, originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, in the UK the term became attached to a sub-genre that encourages stylistic or thematic innovation

After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre — steampunk — with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.

Davies and Korner, having already split with Barber, now plugged in and began to play high powered electric blues that became the model for the sub-genre, forming the band Blues Incorporated.

This sound became something of a classic combination for British blues ( and later rock ) guitarists, and also made clear the primacy of the guitar, seen as a distinctive characteristic of the sub-genre.

The group became famous in Romania in the 1970s when it started fusing their 1960s rock and roll sound with traditional folk music, thus pioneering the " ethno rock " sub-genre.

The idea of a mirror Earth or mirror Universe later became a standard sub-genre within science fiction.

The procedural became more prominent after World War II, and, while the contributions of novelists like Treat were significant, a large part of the impetus for the post-war development of the procedural as a distinct sub-genre of the mystery was due, not to prose fiction, but to the popularity of a number of American films which dramatized and fictionalized actual crimes.

Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, the English gothic writers helped launch a wave of what the French called romans noirs novels, or romans frénétiques novels, which became the first sub-genre of popular literature.

Later, Yngwie Malmsteen became the most notable musician in the sub-genre, and contributed greatly to the development of the style in the 1980s.

With the success of these two films, giant insect pictures became a distinct sub-genre of science fiction films in the 1950s.

It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a sub-genre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication.

The spaghetti Western became the nickname, originally disparagingly, for this broad sub-genre, so named because of their common Italian background, directing, producing and financing ( with occasional Spanish involvement ).

Diva house or handbag house is an anthemic sub-genre of house music that became most popular in gay clubs during the second half of the 1980s.

Later films in this sub-genre such as Vampyres ( 1974 ) became even more explicit in their depiction of sex, nudity and violence.

With the advent of film, Lovecraftian horror truly became a sub-genre, not only fueling direct adaptations of Poe and Lovecraft, but providing the foundation upon which many of the horror films of the 1950s and 1960s were constructed.

Later films in this sub-genre such as Vampyres ( 1974 ) became even more explicit in their depiction of sex, nudity and violence.

The most popular modern storytelling games originated as a sub-genre of role-playing games, where the game rules and statistics are heavily de-emphasised in favor of creating a believable story and immersive experience for all involved.

Modern reconstructions of Viking mythology have shown a persistent influence in late 20th-and early 21st-century popular culture in some countries, inspiring comics, role-playing games, computer games, and music, including Viking metal, a sub-genre of heavy metal music.

A popular sub-genre war films in the 1950s and 1960s was the prisoner of war film.

This sub-genre began with the film Die Hard and has become popular in Hollywood because of its crowd appeal and the relative simplicity of building sets for such a constrained piece.

The picaresque novel ( Spanish: " picaresca ," from " pícaro ," for " rogue " or " rascal ") is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.

It is perhaps most popular for its sub-genre, urban fantasy.

Manila Sound is a sub-genre popular in the Philippines ( notably in Manila during the 1970s which combined elements of Filipino folk music, rock and roll, jazz and disco using Taglish ( mixed English and Tagalog ).

The Nashville sound originated during the late 1950s as a sub-genre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of honky tonk music which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Although G-funk was birthed in Los Angeles, the popular sub-genre drew a large amount of influence from the earlier Bay Area-based sound known as Mobb music of the mid to late 80s pioneered by legendary Oakland rappers like Too Short.

When Dre's 1992 Death Row Records debut The Chronic was released, the album was immensely successful, and consequently made G-funk the most popular sub-genre of hip hop.

Worldbeat as a small sub-genre of popular music has a mounting consumer-perception as a hybrid sub-genre of world music, to the chagrin of world music purists.

It has remained a thriving sub-genre of popular and world music, while continuing to influence new artists, especially those appearing on today's growing roster of indie record labels ( artist examples cited in section 2 of this article ).

Supplanting the Gothic, the next popular sub-genre was the nautical melodrama, pioneered by Douglas Jerrold in his Black-Eyed Susan ( 1829 ).

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the theme was a sufficiently popular subject that the Prodigal Son Play can be seen as a sub-genre of the English morality play.

Its subject matter, two young lovers running from the law, had an influence on the sporadically popular movie sub-genre often called ' love on the run '.

The most popular type of MMOG, and the sub-genre that pioneered the category, is the massively multiplayer online role playing game ( MMORPG ), which descended from university mainframe computer MUD and adventure games such as Rogue and Dungeon on the PDP-10.

Neo-progressive rock ( or often shortened to neo-prog, not to be confused with the significantly more modern new prog ) is a sub-genre of progressive rock, developed in the UK and popular in the 1980s, although it lives on today.

In recent years, the 10-minute play known as " flash drama " has emerged as a popular sub-genre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions.

They had a preference for rich, melodic tunes, and this was much appreciated at a time when the Goa sub-genre was the most popular psytrance style.

" Fruits and Veg " is a popular song containing the lyrics only previously heard on one Logan Sama show, " Crazy " leans slightly into the R & G sub-genre and " They Don't Understand " is the emotional bass filled banger with Little Dee.

This is a sub-genre of blues that is very popular with African American audiences but less known by white audiences.

An extension of this trend was the emergence of a type of horror with emphasis on depictions of torture, suffering and violent deaths, ( variously referred to as " horror porn ", " torture porn ", Splatterporn, and even " gore-nography ") with films such as The Collector, The Tortured, Saw, and Hostel, and their respective sequels, frequently singled out as examples of emergence of this sub-genre.

continued the trend of incorporating familiar hit songs in the sub-genre known as jukebox musicals.

Following directly in the footsteps of Takahashi's previous hit series, Fang of the Sun Dougram, VOTOMS continued the trend towards hard science in the mecha anime sub-genre.