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1. History of Horror
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.

2. The first Horror
 The first horror film originated in 1896, with French director Georges
Méliès' short film ‘The House of the Devil’. The most influential horror
came along in the 1920s due to the German expressionist movement with
films such as ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’. American horror was kept going
by actor Lon Chaney with the likes of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’.
 The House of the Devil- With the help of a magic cauldron,
Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.

3. 30s
 30s, later we have the universal studios Golden Age of monsters in films
bringing well known films such as ‘Frankenstein’ to the screens. At this
stage due to the Nazi uprising most German talent was forced out of
Germany.
 Frankenstein- An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of
exhumed corpses.

4. 40s
 40s, eventually the monster movies became old news. Studios resorted to
comedy horrors, other studios chose a more serious-minded horror. Most
well-known being ‘cat people’.
 Cat people- An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that
she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are
intimate together.

5. 50s
 50s with the cold war fears and the threat of a nuclear war producers
followed the line of mad scientist and mutant creation such as ‘Godzilla’.
 Godzilla- American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a
seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.

6. 60s
 The 60s, showing the era of social revolution films were just as
controversial with the levels of violence, gore and sexuality. Films like
‘Peeping Tom’ and ‘Psycho’. And then the film ‘Night of the Living Dead’
which changed the brand of zombie films forever.
 Also the time of Alfred Hitchcock.
 Psycho- A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client,
goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man
under the domination of his mother.

7. 70s
 The 70s tackled religion and other social issues such as sexism. Again the
violence was very apparent with films such as ‘The Texas chainsaw
Massacre’.
 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre- Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave
in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of
cannibalistic psychopaths.

8. 80s
 In the 80s the slasher films dominated for the first half with ‘Prom Night’ and
‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ and the later half became more light-hearted with ‘Evil
Dead 2’.
 Prom night- A masked killer stalks four teenagers, responsible for the accidental
death of a little girl six years earlier, at their high school's senior prom.

9. 90s
 Early 90s brought us ‘silence of the lambs’ which had great success at the
academy awards. Due to the large successes of some horrors studios put a
lot of funding into large-scale horror themed projects, such as Bram
Stockers ‘Dracula’.
 Dracula- The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiancée and
inflict havoc in the foreign land.

10. 2000s
 Many other countries joined the innovation of horror films such as Canada
with ‘ginger snaps’, Thailand with ‘shutter’ and the UK with ‘28 Days later’.
Most of the 2000s were American remakes of films like ‘Friday the 13th’.
 Friday the 13th - A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp
Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly
intentions.
 Ginger snaps - Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban
neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them
is bitten by a deadly werewolf.
The likes of ginger snaps became a film series.