2. Characters: Villain (in distress) generally women play thing role where they need
saving which can also feature as being the love interest with the male lead.
Settings: eery/dark/mysterious locations. Somewhere you wouldn't want to be stuck
on your own normally at night but also where the audience would be able to relate
to.This is all in order to scare the audience and play on peoples fears.
Music: The music in any film especially horror plays a significant role in order for the
audiences reactions. High pitched eery music builds tension and prepares the audience
for the climax of the scene.
Plot: In horror films there needs to be twists and sudden hints of action to suprise the
audience and keep them engaged. Some horror films centre gore as a theme but in
contrast other films focus on the psychological side e.g Shutter Island to scare an
audience
Across the horror gener there a numerous sub-generes e.g. supernatural, gothic,
fantasy, horror thriller.
Recent films tend to combine these different sub-generes to appeal to a wider audience
although generally the target audience for horror movies is 25-40.

3. 1890’s-1920’s
The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by the film
pioneer in Georges Melies the late 1890s. These included “The Haunted Castle” and “The Cave of
The Unholy One”. Further more horror movies focussed on featuring monsters. An example of this
is “The Hunchback of Notre-dame”.
Hollywood dramas used horror themes, including versions of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
(1923) and The Monster (1925) both starring Lon Chaney, the first American horror movie star.
Other films of the 1920s include Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde(1920), The Phantom Of The Opera(1925)
and finally Waxworks(Germany 1924).

4. Horror was said to be reborn in the 1930s due to mainly due to
sound changing the cinema experience forever. Sound is such a
main part of horror films most of all as it adds such extra
dimension to terror. Helping build suspense and helping the
audience establish threat.
Horror films included Frankenstein(1931) and Dracula(1931)
Frankenstein about a creature created by an unorthodox
experiment. The film was infused with some elements of the
gothic novel and the romantic movement considered to be an
early example of science fiction.
How has the representation of vampires changed?
By 1931, however the vampire in
Dracula is represented as a
The vampire is a familiar
sophisticated, aristocratic figure
monster in horror films.
Furthermore the appearance of
Nosferatu (1922) is an early
vampires is still similar this
example of a vampire and
includes elongated teeth. These
the monster and been made
images show how the
to be rat-like.
representations have changed
throughout history in the genre.

5. From recent horror movies in the 1930’s featureing referances
to fictional monsters such as frankinstein. The 1940’s reflected
more on the internalization of the current horror market. The
American saw themselves as being safe on the horror market
this was in comparison to europe who produced frightening,
chaotic films. As hard as the Americans tried to not become
like europe it was difficult the seperate themselves from there
european roots who linked there recent released to world war
two. Further more the horror genre increasingly featured the
male or female character the subject of the emergence of a
promal animal identity. an example of this would be Disneys
“Pinocchio” (1940)
In 10 years the concept of horrific monsters had altered
irrevocably. From 1940 movies had a powerful envoy from the
dark side. Now there were more recognizably human faces
attached to evil. Those who had fought of both sides in WW2, the
development of the atomic bomb and death camp and also mad
scientists who's activities would have certainly been more
unnerved than Victor Frankenstein.
Many new movies in the 1950’s referenced the news at the current
time. This included using the themes of animals taking over the
world who generated chaos and disaster towards the human race.
These included “Godzilla”, “The fly” and early attempts of “King
Kong”.

6. Again horror movies in the 1960’s referenced news and
developments of news outside of the horror history. This
included converting the codes and conversions of previous
horror films and making females the villains. From
hemlines to homosexuality the 1960’s was all about
attracting a teen audience.
“Psycho” (1960) focused on the psychological side to
horror and let an audience see how monstrous a man
could be.
Blood Feast (1963) referenced the more gore and
murder side of horror.
“Night of the Living Dead” gave an audience an insight
to zombies.
“Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) Discovered an anti-natal
theme.

7. Horror movies of the 1970’s reflect on the grim mood of the decade. After an
exciting year of the 1960’s with its sexual and cultural revolutions. The seventies
were somewhat less interesting. Although unlike the 1960’s the 1970’s bought
back the big budget films. They addressed respectable horror dealing with societal
issues and once again psychological fears.
Children are the focus of horror in the 1960’s. This time in
the 1970 it was the opposite. The enemy was within your
own home. This was certain in several films. including the
famous “The Shining”, “The Omen” and “The Exorcist”
“Jaws” (1975) was where Steven Spielberg proved he could
effectively handle suspense and menace.
Jaws was based on the bestselling novel of the same name,
written by Peter Benchley. Young director Steven Spielberg
took what was classic B-movie fare (big shark chews up
skinny-dipping teenagers who scream a lot, the adults trying
to solve the problem start having affairs with each other) and
turned out a masterclass in suspense. It was a massive
massive success

8. Horror movies of the 1980’s developed even further as
exciting special visual effects had increased. With gory
images and graphic scenes becoming more popular. However
monsters proved to be the same as ever which generally came
from supernatural origins. After aliens represented in Star
Wars and ET maintained a strong presence. Werewolves
were becoming increasingly popular and made a strong
showing in the early 1980’s some of the famous appearances
included “An American Werewolf in London”. Ghosts where
not so numerous but still provided terror but not in such a
traditional way. Now those haunting ‘The Overlook Hotel’ in
“The Shining”
The 1980’s also saw the introduction of the UK’s Video Nasties act saw
various horror movies banned in the UK. The hysteria caused by the video
nasty act had a much wider effect than just the UK and saw a number of
movies unnecessarily censored around the world.
Despite all of this the 1980's is still responsible for some of the most
original and influential horror movies to hit the video stores such as Clive
Barker's Hellraiser, Tom Holland's Child's Play and Sam Raimi's Evil
Dead> as well as some more obscure movies which have become classics
in recent years, Nekromantik, Bad Taste, Basket Case and Maniac to name
a few.

9. Unlike the previous years 1990’s opened up
a whole new way of scaring an audience!
This was using psychological horror. Yet
directors such as Jonathan Demme were One movie which deserves special
adopting the codes and conventions of the attention is Se7en (1995). Jodie Foster
horror genre, when pacing their plot, when described it as "about as close to a
representing their characters, and when perfect film on the topic as I can think
manipulating the shock/suspense of". Dark, unremittingly pessimistic,
mechanisms of their audience. It's just that with a plausible, reasonable, honest,
they weren't admitting to making horror empathic killer at its core, this is a
films, thus avoiding any association or masterpiece.
comparison with the splatter crew. There
was a perceived need, as there was at the
beginning of the 1960s, for adult,
intelligent horror, and it was provided in
the form of disturbing, violent thrillers
such as Silence of The Lambs. As horror
appeared to run out of original ideas, more Jacob’s Ladder (1990) Mourning
film-makers turned to re-making old ones, his dead child, a haunted Vietnam vet
re-interpreting old narratives through a attempts to discover his past while
postmodern, 1990s lens. Hence movies like suffering from a severe case of
The Exorcist III, which plays not on disassociation. To do so, he must
society's anxieties about its children, but decipher reality and life from his own
about its old and infirm, and A-list, big dreams, delusion, and perception of
budget re-workings of the two classics, death.
Dracula and Frankenstein.

10. Horror movies in the late 1990s predicted dire things for the turn of the
century. Whilst January 1st, 2000 came and went without much mishap,
many commentators have identified the true beginning of the 21st century as
September 11th, 2001. The events of that day changed global perceptions of
what is frightening, and set the cultural agenda for the following years.
Final Destination
is a 2000 American
supernatural
horror-thriller film.
Sawa portrays a
teenager who
"cheats death" after
having a
premonition of 28 Days Later (2002)
himself and others A british zombie horror.
perishing in a plane The plot depicts the
explosion and uses breakdown of society
it by saving himself following the accidental
and a handful of release of a highly
other passengers, contagious "rage" virus and
but is continued to focuses upon the struggle of
be stalked by death four survivors to cope with
by claiming back the destruction of the life
their lives which they once knew.
should have been
lost in the plane.