Horror films through the ages
Horror films have developed over the ages so we will study the changes and alterations of the films over periods of time.
1890's: "The house of the devil" was produced by Georges Meles was seen to have been the first real horror movie to be made.
1930's - 1940's: Universal Studios began to promote horror films bringing in successful films like Dracula, Frankenstein .
The indian film industry created a film Mahal which was the first film to use reincarnation which has also become a common characteristic on the horror genre.
1950's - 1960's: Three sub genres emerged.
"Horror of personality" In these characters are perfectly human rather than them being supernatural however the posses horrific personalities.
"Horror of Armageddon" In these films natural events plays a big role ie. A comet so big that it will destroy the whole of earth.
and "Horror of demonic film" This genre includes more evil
spiritual roles for example demons or witches.
1970's - 1980's: Steven Spielburgs "Jaws" was one of the biggest grossing films to be made in the 1970's and was one of the first horror movies to be a big budget hollywood film.
Comedy and sexual overtones began to emerge in to horror films.
Horror films in the 1980's were called "Splatterpunk" as they were often gory and violent with no limitations on how graphic they were.
1990's: They're began a decrease in the market for horror films as the 1980's as they're were many slasher films that had been released in the late 80's and early 90's so the originality had started to wear off by this point. The films that were being produced were more ironic and parodic.
2000's: At the start of the 2000's the was little horror being released how ever a few films like Final Destination were successful. Horror films in this decade tended to be more based on Zombies and Psychological.
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