Horror Movies!

List of Scary Movies:

1.    Frankenstein (1930’s)

2.   Dracula (1930’s)

3.    Halloween (1980’s)

4.   Exorcist (1980’s)

5.    Nightmare on Elm St (1980’s)

6.   Scream (1990’s)

7.   The Ring (2000’s)

8.   The Grudge (2000’s)

9.   Darkness Falls (2000’s)

Emerging Time Period: The first horror movies were silent films a lot like what every film started out like. But instead of people laughing or smiling to the film, this type of silent film exposed pioneers to examine terror for the first time ever. The early films are surreal, dark, pieces owing their visual outburst to painters. Horror movies were reborn in the 1930’s; the beginning of sound as well as changing the whole nature of cinema and had a huge impact on the horror genre. The 1940’s reflected the internalisation of the horror market. The horror films in the 1950’s were about science and technology run riot. Also the era horror films get relegated well and truly to the B-movie category. By the end of the 1980’s horror only became about blood, guts, and gore. It seemed to have lost it’s power to do anything more than shock and then amuse.

Contributing Artists: 

Stephen King- He was able to create books and then turn them into a top 10 scary movie at one time or another. For example: “It” this movie was very popular when it first came out. He could present movies that not only scare you but tricked your mind into believing the lie.

Wes Craven- The era of mind tricks. His movies were more about the scare and make you jump rather than have blood and guts spilled all over the screen in each scary part.

Jaime Lee Curtis-   most well-known actresses in the world. The actress who is best known for the character “Lori Strode” in the psycho killer hit movies, Halloween. She was one of the many actresses that could make you feel a part of the movie.

      

Stylistic Elements:

1.    Darkness

2.   Shadows

3.    High pitch fast music

4.   The killer always catches up even when walking

5.    Screaming

6.   Usually quiet right before the killing.

Themes and Values

1. The permisscuious, drinking, drug using, people are the first to get killed.

Extra Information: horror building up over decades. (Timeline)

-     First horror movies (1920’s)

-     Horror Begins to talk and scream (1930’s)

-     Horror eats itself (1940’s)

-     Creature features (1950’s)

-     Bad girls and blood freaks (1960’s)

-     Nightmare decade (1970’s)

-     Inside out (1980’s)

-     Psycho killers (1990’s)

-     Contagion and global convergence (2000’s)