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Horror films
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The Haunted Castle - Le Manoir du Diable
Three minute long film was first made to amuse people rather than scare them. This is still classed as a horror film. -
The X-Rays
A uk film which was a short comedy, this film contained the first british examples of jump cuts. -
The infernal Boiling point
Silent french fantasy film with a running time of 1 minute and was writted and directed by Georges Melles who was popular for horror films in france. -
The Sealed Roon
11 minute silent film in the United States -
Frankenstein
Motion picture of the novel by Mary Shelley which had a 16 minute running time. Where a young student ambition is to create a human and bring it to life. -
The vampire
An early vampire film where female vamps were first introduced and there suck the blood out of foolidh men. -
The Student of Prague
85 minute long film is a german horror film. Remakes of this film have been in 1962, 1935 and 2004. -
The Werewolf
silent 18 minute ling film which was distributed by universal studios. All print are the films are lost. -
The cabinet of Dr. Caligari
71 minutes runnong time and was directed based on a screen play. Some people have the opinion that it is the greatest horror movie of the silent era. Was released in the United States on March 19 1921 -
Symphony of Horror
The first genuine vampire film produced by a european filmmaker. -
The Gorilla
80 minute silent film were the plot evolves arounf a series of murders commited by a person dressed as a gorilla. -
Sound In horror movies
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Silent english 12 minute long film which was on one reel which was the combination of a novel and a play version. First horror movie to have sound in -
Dracula
One of th most popular vampire films which had a budget of 355,000 dollars. produced by universal studio -
Doctor X
Usa Film and was the first national Warner Bros. horror and mystery film. themes such as murderm rape, cannibulism and prostittution are within the narrative. -
Bride of Frankenstein
US based horror movie and had running time of 79 minutes. This was a sequal to Frankenstein. This movie had a budget of $397,000 -
The Dark eyes of London
British Horror film which became to have the first ever rating of "H" for horriffic. -
The Door with seven Locks
UK Black and white horror film with running time of 89 minutes. -
Dead Men Walk
Us horror film where a small-town physician secretly murdered his twin brother. -
Changing preceptions
More technology is now available to make better special effects and people's perceptions are changing so we see these films have incasions and mutations of animals and plants, -
The thing from Another World
Us horror film with a budgest Of just under $2millions and had scenes of renacting the cold war which gained audiences. -
Godzilla
95 minute long film in colour from china and this film captures the times of mutations and aliens. -
Physco
This was the first suspense/ horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This made $32,00,000 at Box office. Recognised as one of the best films of all time because of it bring a new level of acceptablr sexuality and violence. -
The Haunting
Made in the uk by american studios and was horror of denomic film in the early 1960's -
Night of the Living Dead
This film includes zombies which blends psychological insights with gore and this moves it away from the traditional horror movies associated with gothic horror. -
The Exorcist
One of the first films where the devil was represented and was portrayed as an evil charcter by stealing children -
Dawn of the Dead
Involves a mad scienctist which explores the fears of technology and society -
Hallowen themes
Films like Friday the 13th and Halloween were linked to halloween which became increasingly independent on this theme, -
B movies
The 80's saw alot of B movies being made which are low budget motions pictures -
Interview with the Vamire : The Vamire Chronicles
1994 horror drama film.which started when a girl was turned into a vampire. this film made $223,664,608 at box office. this did have a budget of $60 millions which contributed to its sucess. -
Resident Evil
After 2000 there had been a comeback of the genre of zombies. the game Resident Evil was made into a movie and had three sequels -
Brotherhood of the Wolf
This was the second highest grossing film in the united states in the last 2 decades. -
The Others
This goes along the theme of a psychological horror. this film won many awards. The psychological horror relies on the audiences fear and emotionality instability to create suspension and therefore more fear. -
Scar
This was ther first US 3D full length feature film to be completed in HD 3D and the first 3D Video on demand film released for 3D televisions -
Paranormal Activity
Was really well encaptured the audience and and its critics. This had an excellent reception at box office. -
Piranha 3DD
This was a horror comedy film desinged to make people laugh and have the horror theme aswell. This as the sequel to Piranha 3D