2. Thesis Statement Ever since the beginning of films, audiences have been captivated by horror movies which is probably because we (to put it simply) want to be scared.
3. “One could speculate it all began somewhere back in prehistoric times, when one cave man first terrified another with tales, of unknown and horrible creatures lurking out there beyond the circle of firelight” Daniel Cohen
4. Overview Relevance General Why? Where? Types Misc. Theatrical Trailer Guess That Movie Conclusion Works Cited
5. Personal Relevance I’ve always liked being scared and for me watching horror movies just became a natural thing. But as I watched them I wanted to know more about them
6. Audience Relevance Learn more, about the history and why people keep going back to be scared To understand the different types of movies
7. General Most unique of any film genre No rigid guidelines Macmillian Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
8. Definition A film genre that focuses on arousing feelings of intense fear, shock, or disgust Oxford Dictionary
9. Why? People want to be scared Macmillian Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
11. French Tough French film are more known for their drama and art, their horror history is also very long. Had the first horror movie ever created, The House of the Devil
12. American The start of American horror Frankenstein, M, Dracula, and the Invisible Man Universal Pictures Co. Inc. horrorfilmhistory.com
13. German Changed the face of horror movies 1915-1916 Followed America by redoing many films Head of Janus German Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Nosferatu German version of Dracula http://horror.about.com/od/foreignhorrormovies/a/germanhorror.htm
14. Horror on a Budget Less Known Small actors to get famous Not many special effects “Horror Movies” by Daniel Cohen
15. Return of Big Time Horror 40’s 50’s and early 60’s Rosemary's Baby The Exorcist The Omen Carrie “Horror Movies” by Daniel Cohen
16. Early Days First “credited” horror movie released Followed by two Japanese films 1910 the first Frankenstein movie created Most horror movies were from literature The 20th century introduced the first monster horrorfilmhistory.com
17. Monsters Monsters became a huge part Special effects were introduced B rated movies Started to target Teens Interest in sci-fi horror horrorfilmhistory.com
18. Universal’s Monsters Dracula Frankenstein The Mummy The Invisible Man The Creature from the Black Lagoon The Wolfman “Horror Movies” by Daniel Cohen
20. Children Using the fear of children The Exorcist (Voted scariest movie of all time in 1999) Landmark of the horror genre Carrie is the opposite of what we see today when the main character goes to a prom horrorfilmhistory.com
22. Hardcore Horror Shame 1931 & 1933 Oscars Academy awards “Horror Movies” by Daniel Cohen
23. Horror Before Sound Student of Prague The Golem The Cabinet of Caligari Nosferatu “Horror Movies” by Daniel Cohen
24. Hollywood Horror Phantom of the Opera The Hunchback of Notre Dame “Horror Movies” by Daniel Cohen
25. Animal Use Jaws Created a panic in beaches Cujo Introduced the fear of ordinary things
26. Insects They have given people the creeps for the longest time. The movie arachnophobia is all about a rare tropical spider that reproduces and basically takes over a small town. horrorfilmhistory.com
27. First Person Right there Makes you feel like you are a character A couple great movies filmed in this perspective horrorfilmhistory.com
28. Suspense Movies What makes a movie suspense? What is the difference between suspense and other forms of horror. horrorfilmhistory.com
29. Gore Horror What is it? Why is it different than all the others horrorfilmhistory.com
30. Suspense and Gore Comparison Suspense Plot Twists Good story line Less blood More thought on the viewer “Good to watch” Planning by center villain Gore Plot Twist Hard to follow “Good entertainment” More blood Planning by writers horrorfilmhistory.com
31. What Makes Monsters Scary Freddy Krueger King Kong, and Godzilla Chucky Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
67. Conclusion I learned that in horror movies we have come so far in plot and effects. But I also see the creativity suffering. I also learned that to create a horror movie, you need a lot of patience.
72. Works Cited http://www.akg.hu/filmklub/filmek/batessh.gif http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zu9zebQ2nEI/StI8s_UnZcI/AAAAAAAABas/bD6Dli2stBA/s400/childs+play+pic.jpg http://thefastertimes.com/vampires/files/2009/10/nightmare-on-elm-street.jpg
73. Works Cited Macmillian Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Oxford Dictionary http://www.horrorfilmhistory.com/ http://horror.about.com/od/foreignhorrormovies/a/germanhorror.htm Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained “Horror Movies” by Daniel Cohen
74. Works Cited http://screencrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ring_7.jpg http://filmifriik.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/bloody-valentine.jpg http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/reviews/cujo2b.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WsE6M_RjBIY/R1J1to4a4WI/AAAAAAAAFVE/mSaXKvGxQNY/s1600-R/Christine09.jpg http://billsmovieemporium.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/jaws2.jpg
Notas del editor
According to film critic William K. Everson the reason it is so unique is because it can show it’s message in very intense visual and auditory cues while other genres might use restraint and logical explanationThis gives more freedom to the director and screen writer
Based on what Everson has said one can conclude that the main reason people go see horror movies is so they can be scared, and this feeling is so addictive that they keep going back.
Archetypes are sets of primordial images that are contained in the collective unconsciousThe most powerful archetype and maybe the most powerful one at that. It contains all the behavior that is seen as unacceptable some believe that this is where we get our impulses for blood (our Mr. Hyde to our Dr. Jeckyll)
All movies released in this time periodUniversal was the leader of the horror wave.
That is the general idea one that I share as wellDuring these years three movies came out that really pushed the movement of the horror movies, including Golem (a servant who strays from his master), Nachte des Grauens (first German vampire movie, and Homunculus (first Frankenstein concept)
First credited horror movie Le Manoir de Diable (House of the Devil) by Georges Melies in 1898Bake Jizo, and Shinin no Sosei in 1898Which was then lost then found in 1993 where they had a rereleaseSuch as Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Quasimodo from the hunch back of Notre Dame.
Monsters such as King Kong, Godzilla, and The FlyBlue screen used to create the giants or the miniscule parts of the moviesThis was counted as a low point for horror moviesMovies like Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, were clearly for kidsAfter the crash in Roswell, New Mexico, the rumor that has been told about what really happened, it opened a whole new book in horror movie history
Alfred Hitchcock has given us some of the greatest horror movies, Psycho, and The BirdsAfter Psycho the slasher movies started to get popular, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre
In some movies the film makers will use the painful experience of child birth like in Brave New WorldThe exorcist was a serious horror movie, because there was nothing funny about it except for some ironyMade in 1973 was not allowed to be viewed in UK until 1999Was all about a girl who is possessed was given an X ratingCarrie is a telekinetic girl who wants to fit in then after getting crowned prom queen a bucket of pigs blood is dumped on her head, all the people in the movie end up dead
Death can be caused by many things some we never see like viruses in the movie Quarantine a mutated rabies virus starts affecting humans and the survivors are forced to fend for themselves.And in Final Destination death is caused by Death, or the grim reaper as some people call him, it is about kids who are trying to cheat death
The one movie that scared the most people when they were young made them not want to go in the water.Not the supernatural the things that are in your back yard
And in many movies they have been exploited to reach the depths of our fears
The fact that not everything is right in front of you, you have to think about what is going on and who will die.And in suspense the focus is more on the plot than anything else, not violence, not gore.
Gore is a movie with a plot that could be better, but the movie focuses mainly on the blood.
Freddy was in your dreams and he was killing you and there was no way you could tell when he would strikeKing Kong we have thought of ourselves as the biggest and most powerful creaturesChucky we usually see toys as a fun thing but Chucky made us fear them
Hannibal Made us see the dark side of human nature, and see serial killers for what they are, monstersJason Made us see mental illness differently, as something that made people emotionless and conscious lessAlien Made us fear the unknown
Completely changed what people saw as scary, and any one who tried to sell a horror movie got rebuffedAt one point there was even a call to ban horror movies in the name of world peaceMade it so that no matter what the film makers did there was no way any one person could be scarier
Halloween, Psycho
People feel like they are setting themselves down when watching a horror movieFilms come and go many of which are never heard about again, but in one category many films have seen immortality Horror, why because fear lives forever1931 Oscar goes to Cimarron. Same year Frankenstein came out1933 Oscar goes to Cavalcade Same year King Kong came outAcademy awards back then out of all of the great actors and actresses one got the academy award Fredrick March, for playing the Duel titled role of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had to share it with Wallace Beery for the champ
Focused on the devil and the doppelganger where a man sells his reflection to the devil and dies to get it back lead actor Paul WegnerWhile filming Paul heard the legend of the golem and turned it into a movie which he made many ofStory of a hypnotist and his sleeping aid that at night is called to kill peopleThe story of Dracula made in Germany
American Horror is now more recognized in society today
These movies have defiantly left their mark on horror films of today and have been subject to many remakes in past and in the present
Surely not as known as Frankenstein, or Dracula but for the time period they were known enough to get the actors and actresses names out there, could not show monsters like in the movie cat people the monster is never seen.
No big movies that every one was talking aboutDirector Roman Polanski took a well known book and turned it in to a movieA lot of the movies were about the devil at this time
