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Horror Films

The document discusses the history and evolution of the horror genre in film. It begins with early silent horror films and moves through seminal works by directors like Hitchcock and Craven that established major subgenres. These include slasher films exemplified by Halloween and body horror films like Cronenberg's The Fly. More recent trends involved remakes and fusing horror with other genres like action. Major subgenres discussed include psychological horror, monster movies, nature-gone-wrong films, and torture porn. Famous franchises and influential directors and actors in the genre are also noted.

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Horror Films

The document discusses the history and evolution of the horror genre in film. It begins with early silent horror films and moves through seminal works by directors like Hitchcock and Craven that established major subgenres. These include slasher films exemplified by Halloween and body horror films like Cronenberg's The Fly. More recent trends involved remakes and fusing horror with other genres like action. Major subgenres discussed include psychological horror, monster movies, nature-gone-wrong films, and torture porn. Famous franchises and influential directors and actors in the genre are also noted.

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Audience's primal fears.

Scenes that startle the viewer The macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Often deal with the viewers nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, curses, Satanism, demons, gore, torture, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals and serial killers

Where it all begin: 1896: Le Manoir du Diable by Georges Mlis. First silent horror film. 1922: Nosferatu by Friedrich Murnau During the early period of talking pictures, the American Movie studio Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series 1931: Dracula (Todd Browning) and Frankenstein (James Whale).

Two sub-genres began to emerge: the horror-of-Armageddon film and the horror-of-the-demonic film. 1960: Psycho by the acclaimed director Alfred Hitchcock. 1963: Blood Feast directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. First splatter film. 1973: The Exorcist by William Friedkin. It is the first horror film to be nominated for Best Picture. 1974: Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Introduced "the slasher movie" to the audience.

1980: The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick, Friday the 13th by Sean Cunningham 1984: Wes Craven directed A Nightmare On Elm Street 1990: It, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. 1991: The Silence of the Lambs. 1996: Scream and I know what you did last summer by Kevin Williamson. 1999: The Sixth Sense. The highest-grossing horror movie of all time.

Remakes of earlier horror movies became routine in the 2000s Remakes of The Texas chainsaw massacre, Halloween and Dawn of the Dead. Final Destination, The Blair Witch Project. (2000) Jeepers Creepers (2001) The Ring, Resident Evil. (2002) The Grudge and Saw.(2004) Paranormal Activity (2009) The Rite (2011)

A subgenre combining the intrusion of an evil force, event or supernatural personage of horror movies with the gunfights and frenetic chases of the action genre. This category also fuses the fantasy genre. Examples include: Constantine Resident Evil Ghost Rider Planet Terror Underworld Deep Rising Blade Dawn of the Dead End of Days

The horror is principally derived from the graphic destruction or degeneration of the body. David Cronenberg is one of the notable directors of the genre. Some body horror films include: The Thing Altered States The Invasion The Fly Rosemary's Baby Hellraiser Videodrome Cabin Fever Teeth

Gothic horror is a type of story that contains elements of goth and horror. Examples include universal horror films such as The Phantom of the Opera Dracula Frankenstein The Mummy Modern gothic horrors include Sleepy Hollow Underworld The Wolfman From Hell Dorian Gray Let Me In The Woman in Black

A sub-genre of horror films "featuring nature running amok in the form of mutated beasts, carnivorous insects, and normally harmless animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers.

Examples include: Jaws The Birds Black Sheep Mimic Deep Rising Them! Anaconda Snakes on a Plane The Cave Piranha 3D The Happening The Ruins

Relies on characters' fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music, emotional instability and at times, the supernatural and ghosts. Examples include A Tale of Two Sisters The Grudge

The Exorcist Silent Hill The Others The Blair Witch Project Sinister The Changeling The Sixth Sense

Often revolves around subjects that include but are not limited to killer aliens, mad scientists, and/or experiments gone wrong. Examples include: Alien Pandorum The Fly Event Horizon Apollo 18 Doom Pitch Black The Mist It Came from Outer Space

Often revolves around a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner. Examples of this genre include: Psycho Black Christmas Halloween

Child's Play The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Scream My Bloody Valentine Friday the 13th Hatchet

These films deliberately focus on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. Through the use of special effects and excessive blood and guts, they tend to display an overt interest in the vulnerability of the human body and the theatricality of its mutilation. Examples include Saw Cannibal Holocaust Blood Feast Demons Guinea Pig Hostel Cannibal Ferox Martyrs Hobo with a Shotgun Inside The Collector The Midnight Meat Train

"Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi. "Psycho" (1960) starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. "The Exorcist" (1973) starring Linda Blair. "Halloween" (1978) starring Jamie Lee Curtis. "Alien" (1979) starring Sigourney Weaver and directed by Ridley Scott.

Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds, Psycho John Carpenter Halloween, Someones Watching Me Tobe Hooper The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist Wes Craven A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddie vs Jason

Robert Englund A Nightmare on Elm Street Jamie Lee Curtis Halloween Sigourney Weaver Aliens series Bruce Campbell Evil dead 1,2 and 3 Bill Moseley Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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