1. History of Horror Films
Horror films are a film genre that is made to make viewers have an emotional
reaction to them; they do this by basing their story lines on these things:
Nightmares (a scary dream)
Hidden fears
Revulsions ( a sense of disgust)
Terror of the unknown
Horror films also have prevalent elements:
Ghosts
Aliens
Vampires
Werewolves
Curses
Satanism
Demons
Vicious animals
Zombies
Serial killers
These are elements that horror movies are based on or include at least one of
these features.

2. Timeline of Horror films
Date Evolving of horror
1890’s-1920’s The first horror film the Haunted
Castle was made in 1896, the film was
created by George Melies. When I
watched the clips of the film I actually
realised how much horror films have
expanded over the years.
1930’s-1940’s This is when Universal pictures
The advance in technology moved
1950’s-1960’s horror films from Gothic to
contemporary concerns, this then
created 2 sub-genres, these are
horror-of-Armageddon and horror-of-
the-demonic.
1970’s-1980’s The film “Rosemary’s Baby” made an
evolution of more horror films
released with occult films in the
1970’s, this is also when the feature
evil children was introduced.
1990’s This when the relationship of fictional
horror and real world horror was
introduced but this was also a bad
century for horror movies this is
because they movies became
predictable and the audiences were
getting bored of them.
2000’s Parodies came in

3. Involvement of stars
Bruce Campbell is a film and television actor, director, writer, producer and
author. Bruce Campbell is a cult actor; he is most famous for his role as Ashley
J. "Ash" Williams in the Evil Dead series of films, I personally think that Dyer’s
Star theory doesn’t apply to Bruce Campbell this is because even though he is
very successful he isn’t used for
Jamie Lee Curtis is known as scream queen because of her starring roles in
horror films earlier on in her career

4. Thrillers
Aims of thriller’s are to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats,
all thrillers have a protagonist in the films who is set against a problem, they
emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces.
A thriller provides the sudden rush of emotions, excitement, and sense of
suspense and exhilaration the objective is to deliver a story with sustained
tension, surprise, and a constant sense of impending doom which makes
thriller films so popular.
Thrillers tend to be fast-moving, psychological, threatening, mysterious and at
times involve larger-scale villainy such as espionage, terrorism and conspiracy