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Horror Timeline

  • Darkside

    Darkside
    Artisits at this point in time began to paint pictures onmore of the horror side of human nature, like devils and demons.
  • Frankenstein

    Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley wrote the first Gothic Horror peice called Frankenstein.
  • Ghost Stories

    Ghost Stories
    Ghost stories began to be written and most of them were by Wilkie Collins, an example of one of Collins novels is 'The Haunted Hotel'.
  • Dracula

    Dracula
    Strokers most famous novel was Dracula which was published in 1897
  • Horror Films

    Horror Films
    Both Dracula and Frankenstein are made into films.
  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

    The subgenre sci-fi twist began as people interested in space and more people wanting to go to space, the film 'Invasion of the body snatchers' represents this.
  • Psycho

    Psycho
    The subgenre 'slasher' was introduced by the psychological horror called 'Psycho' by Alfred Hitchcock's.
  • The Exorcist

    Alot of horror films in the 70s inlcuded youth such as 'The Exorcist'.
  • Halloween

    Halloween
    John Carpenter's 'Halloween' horror movie rebranded Hitchcock's slasher film for a more teenage audience and created the teen slasher subgenre.
  • Scream

    Scream
    'Scream' is an example of a film that used existing horror conventions.
  • Modern Horror Films

    Modern Horror Films
    Demonic horror films have become very popular again. So filsm like 'The Exorcist', 'Insidious' and 'Annabelle' have been remade to fit this catogary.