Sunday, 22 November 2015

A brief history of the Horror Genre

THE SILENT ERA
-Germany became a part of the international film industry.
-Germany expressionism 1920's-1930's.
-Horror film production raised from 24 films to 130 within four years.
MONSTERS AND MAD SCIENTISTS
Having monsters in the early years horror raised the popularity for this genre,in this era were for example Dracula, Frankenstein, mad scientists were introduced to horror films the decade for example invisible man.  
THE PRIMAL ANIMAL WITHIN
In the early 1940's animals were introduced to horror movies and were often seen as half humans/half animal, one of the most famous and successful examples is ''The wolf man'' which became one of the main factors.
MUTANTS AND MONSTERS
When it came to 1950's the style of horror movies has turnt into scifi horrors and unknown, a lot of the time aliens and other non existing creatures were used. Example- ''The Blob - 1958''
GHOSTS ,SATANISM AND BODY HORROR
Horror films got much better and real around the 1970's, ghosts and demons came on the scene around these times. The most popular of this was ''Ghost stories''. In the 1980's body horror, blood and brutality came into cinemas.

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