The Strain is a television series in the horror drama genres.
Drama . It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries , along with film studies , adopted to describe `` drama '' as a genre within their respective media . Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to , or has the capacity to frighten , scare , disgust , or startle their readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror . The Strain is an American horror drama television series that premiered on FX on July 13 , 2014 .