History of Horror

History of horror

1890'S-1920'S

Horror films developed out of a number of sources: folktales with supernatural chacters, witchcraft, fables, myths, ghost stories and Gothic or Victorian novels from Europe . French director Georges Méliès' 1896 short The House of the Devil, is often credited as being the first horror movie. Japan made early forays into the horror genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei, both made in 1898

1910: Frankenstein1920: Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1920: The Golem: Or How He Came into the World

1920: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1922: Haxan

1922: Nosfertu

1923: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1924: The Hands of Orlac

1924: Waxworks

1925: The Monster

1927: The Cat and the Canary 

1930'S–1940's

Universal Studios entered a Golden Age of monster movies in the '30s, releasing horror movies such as Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931 .The first genuine vampire picture was also produced by a European filmmaker,F. W. Murnau's feature-length Nosferatu,it was an unauthorized film adaptation of Stoker's Dracula with Max Schreck in the title role as the screen's first vampire

1931: Dracula

1931: Drácula

1931: Frankenstein

1931: Vampyr

1932: Freaks

1932: The Mask of Fu Manchu

1932: The Mummy

1932: The Old Dark House

1932: White Zombie

1933: The Invisible Man

1933: Island of Lost Souls

1933: King Kong

1934: The Black Cat

1935: The Bride of Frankenstein

1935: The Werewolf of London

1941: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1941: King of the Zombies

1941: The Wolf Man

1942: Cat People

1943: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

1943: I Walked with a Zombie

1944: The Uninvited

1945: Dead of Night

1945: The Picture of Dorian Gray

1948: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

1949: Mahal

1950s–1960's

With advances in technology, the tone of horror films shifted from the Gothic towards contemporary concerns. Two sub-genres began to emerge: the horror-of-Armageddon film due to the cold war and horror-of-the-demonic film in the 50's. The 60's Bought Reflected the social revolution of the era, the movies were more edgy, featuring controversial levels of violence.Big names in Horror of the time included Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, The Birds), Vincent Price (13 Ghosts, The Fall of the House of Usher, Witchfinder ), Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs), Roman Polanski (Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby) and Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath). 

1951: The Thing from Another World

1953: House of Wax 1954: The Creature from the Black Lagoon

1954: Godzilla

1955: Diabolique 1956: The Bad Seed

1956: I Vampiri

1956: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1957: The Curse of Frankenstein

1957: I Was a Teen-age Werewolf

1958: The Blob

1958: The Fly

1959: House on Haunted Hill 1960: 13 Ghosts

1960: Eyes Without a Face

1960: Psycho

1961: The Innocents

1962: Carnival of Souls

1963: The Birds

1963: Black Sabbath

1964: Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964: Two Thousand Maniacs

1965: Dr Terror's House of Horrors

1965: Repulsion

1968: The Rape of the Vampire

1968: Night of the Living Dead

1968: Spider Baby

1968: Witchfinder



1970'S-1980'S

the 70's contained "Evil children" and reincarnation as popular subjects,sex became included as a part of the overall allure of horror.The shock factor even pushed films like The Exorcist and Jaws to blockbuster success.the modern slasher film during the 80's like Friday the 13th, Prom Night,Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street.Stephen King's adaptations of his books such as The Shining become incredibly popular.Fatal Attraction, meanwhile, spawned a series of "stalker thrillers.

1971: Vampyros Lesbos

1972: Blacula

1973: The Exorcist

1973: The Wicker Man

1974: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1975: Jaws

1976: Carrie

1976: The Omen

1977: The Hills Have Eyes

1978: Dawn of the Dead

1978: Halloween

1979: The Amityville Horror

1979: When a Stranger Calls

1980: The Shining

1980: Friday the 13th

1981: An American Werewolf in London

1981: The Evil Dead

1982: Creepshow

1982: Poltergeist

1983: The Hunger

1984: A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984: Silent Night, Deadly Night

1985: Demons

1985: The Return of the Living Dead

1986: House

1986: Manhunter

1987: Evil Dead 2

1987: Fatal Attraction

1987: Hellraiser

1988: Child's Play

1988: Night of the Demons

1988: The Vanishing

1989: Pet Sematary

1990's-Present 

studios funded large-scale horror-themed projects, such as Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Wolf. In 1996, Scream's runaway success reignited the love of slasher films, spawning similar films, such as I Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Lege. In The 2000's we saw remakes of american classics (Friday the 13th, Halloween, Dawn of the Dead) and remakes of foreign film's (The Ring, The Grudge) A large trend is a return to the extreme, graphic violence that is now categorized as "torture porn" due to the how graphic the images are and also how much nudity the films contain. 2010's saw a rise in the supernatural and demonic (The last exorcsim,Sinster, once again and further remakes of classics.

1990: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

1990: Misery

1991: The Silence of the Lambs

1992: Candyman

1992: Dead Alive

1993: Cronos

1993: Leprechaun

1994: Interview with the Vampire

1995: Se7en

1996: The Craft

1997: I Know What You Did Last Summer

1998: Fallen

1998: Ringu

1999: The Blair Witch Project

1999: The Sixth Sense

1999: Sleepy Hollow

2000: Final Destination

2001: Joy Ride

2001: The Others

2002: 28 Days Later

2002: The Ring

2003: Freddy vs. Jason

2003: House of 1000 Corpses

2003: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2004: Dawn of the Dead

2004: The Grudge 2004:Saw

2005: The Descent

2005: Hostel

2006: The Host

2007: I Am Legend

2007: The Orphanage

2008: Cloverfield

2008: Prom Night

2008: The Strangers

2009: Friday the 13th

2009: Paranormal Activity

2010:Insidious

2010:The Last Exorcism

2011:Paranormal Activity 3

2011:The Human Centipede 2

2012: Sinister

2012:The Devil Inside

2013:The Conjuring

2013:Evil Dead