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How Horror Began
In the 1700's artists began to produce dark paintings such as devils, demons andevil creatures. -
Frankenstein
In 1815, Mary Shelley write the first ever world-famous gothic horror novel 'Frankenstein'. This influenced other writers to create similar novels. -
Dracula
The Gothic Horror Dracula was written by Bram Stoker, to this date it is still famous. At the same time that this novel was published, many ghost stories were published this is due to the Victorian publics fascination with life after deathand the macabre; they even came known with Queen Victoria when Prince Albert, her husband had passed away. -
Nosferatu
This novel was based on Dracula by Bram Stoker. This created a lot of monster movies to come out but the monster genre soon died out as lots of re-makes were made as well as World War 2 causing not as much funding towards horror movies so not many got made. -
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Sci-fi and psychological movies horror movies started to become popular in 1950. This was when the war had ended and devlpoment of space technology sparked an interest for the public in space travel and the moon. -
Psycho
The fsmous movie Psycho was written/produced by Alfred Hitchcock.This film set new standards for horror films and introduced the 'slasher' subgenre as well as focussing on the psychological genre. -
The Exorcist
In the 1970s began the Demonic themed movies that focused on devils, demons, possesions and evil spirits. -
Halloween
The subgenre of Teen Slasher Horror was created in 1978 when 'Halloween' was released; it was written in Hitchcocks Slasher style of horror, looking for a teenage demographic. -
Scream
Mid 1990s was when Scream was produced using all the previous conventions that were introduced, this film made viewers look at horror in a different way whilst meeting all the genreal genre conventions of a Slasher film. -
Scary Movie
Parodies such as Scary Movie came about after the popular Teen Slasher movie period in the 1990's. Films such as 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' were incredibly popular at that moment in time. -
Body Horror
Saw, Hostel and the Human Centipede are some examples of Body Horror Movies which became rather popular during the 2000s, they were made with intentions to gross out and scare the audience who were willing to watch revolting scenes of ingestion and body mutilation. -
Today
In recent years, demonic horror has began once again, with film makers bringing out remakes of famous movies such as, Carrie and The Exorcist. Films such as, Insidious, Deliver Us From Evil and Annabelle are new films which represent this satanic genre.
