Sunday, 29 November 2015

HSTORY OF HORROR

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 the genre. In the era of 1930's, Dracula, Frankenstein and mad scientists were introduced to horror films.















THE PRIMAL ANIMAL WITHIN:

In the early 1940's animals were introduced to horror movies. they 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 icons in the sub genre.








MUTANTS AND MONSTERS:

When it came to 1950's, the style of horror movies had turned into sci-fi 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 evolved and got better and more real around the 1970's, ghosts and demons came on the scene around that time. The most popular film of that sub genre was ''Ghost stories''.
In the 1980's body horror, blood and brutality came into cinemas.

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