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In 1896, film maker; George Melies created a two minute horror movie, "Le Manoir Du Diable" translated to "The Devil's Castle". This was the first horror film, creating a convention for the genre. Such as a demon figure.
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The first real evolution of the Horror genre included the addition of the literary genre. With such author as Edgar Alan Poe's books becoming films.
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Horror films tend to include conventional elements of which the audience is scared of. Such as demon exorcism and monsters like Frankenstein and what not. There tends to be a protagonist who has to fight off an underdog situation of demonic figures.
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Edgar Alan Poe's book; The Sealed Room was released as a film
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During the 1930's the Gothic convention really hit off by Universal studios. Such greats as Frankenstein was released(1931). Adding further to the evolution of horror films.
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The transition from Gothic to Contemporary concerns meant the addition of subgenres such as; Demonic and Doomsday films aswell as the supernatural convention beginning to form.
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House of Wax was the first horror film to be shown in 3D and colour. Two days after the first 3D black and white horror movie, Man in the Black.
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Horror films have gone for a less iconic view and more of a dark genre of horror. Meaning that horror has evolved from monsters to demonic to supernatural to now which is more of a religious aspect such as the "Exorcist".
