As Christine Gledhill proposes, "there are no rigid rules of inclusion and exclusion" for genres meaning often conventions of two or more genres can be combined to create what is known as a 'hybrid'. For example, 'rom-coms' are very popular hybrid genres which combine the typical conventions of both romance and comedy films to form its own unique blend. The list of hybrid genres is endless as practically any film genre conventions can be mashed together no matter how surprising and most already have within cinema. Below are a couple of surprising examples of hybrid films featuring unlikely mash-ups of genres:
Cowboys and Aliens
'Cowboys and Aliens' combines two completely unrelated genres in mixing the conventions of western and science-fiction - a mix which, in an other circumstance, would sound ridiculous but it definitely paid off for this film which went on to become a big success.
Paul
'Paul' is a blend of science-fiction and comedy conventions which, again, seems like a very unlikely combination mixture considering science-fiction is typically thought to be a powerful and dramatic genre with very little time to make jokes and yet Simon Pegg and Nick Frost prove with this huge hit that the two genres were just waiting to be mashed together.
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