Section 1- unit 3- Brief history of horror

A Brief history of the Horror genre

The Horror genre was credited to have started in the late 1890's by a film pioneer called Georges Melies. 

Though the word "horror" to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930's, after Universal Pictures released Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931).

 These early films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotional heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense and sentimentality.

Rules to making a Horror Film

• Pick a main character
• Pick a sidekick and make them bicker and compete
• Pick a universal moment- A universal moment is an event that many of us will have experienced and when in a story becomes something your audience can relate to.
• Pick a location 
• Pick an inciting incident 
• Pick a ghost
• Pick a nightmare
• Pick a trap
• Pick the moment the sidekick dies
• Pick the confrontation
• Pick the right music

Horror films in the 1950s

• Bride of the Gorilla
• The Black-Castle 
• The Mad Magician
• The Snow Creature
• Cult of the Cobra
• The Mole People
• The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
• Blood of Dracula
• The Curse of Frankenstein
• Macabre

Horror films in the 1960s

• The Brides of Dracula
• The Stranglers of Bombay 
• Psycho
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Black Sabbath
• Diary of a Madman
• Witchcraft
• Night of the Living Dead

Horror films in the 1970s

• Bigfoot
• Count Dracula
• Equinox
• Blood Thirst
• Dracula vs. Frankenstein 
• The Fiend
• Autopsy
• Jaws
• Jack the Ripper
• Count Dracula
• Halloween
• Jaws 2
• Zombie Holocaust

Horror Films in the 1980s

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