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Artisits at this point in time began to paint pictures onmore of the horror side of human nature, like devils and demons.
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Mary Shelley wrote the first Gothic Horror peice called Frankenstein.
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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'.
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Strokers most famous novel was Dracula which was published in 1897
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Both Dracula and Frankenstein are made into films.
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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.
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The subgenre 'slasher' was introduced by the psychological horror called 'Psycho' by Alfred Hitchcock's.
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Alot of horror films in the 70s inlcuded youth such as 'The Exorcist'.
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John Carpenter's 'Halloween' horror movie rebranded Hitchcock's slasher film for a more teenage audience and created the teen slasher subgenre.
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'Scream' is an example of a film that used existing horror conventions.
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Demonic horror films have become very popular again. So filsm like 'The Exorcist', 'Insidious' and 'Annabelle' have been remade to fit this catogary.
