German expressionism was a reaction to WW1 that came about due to Germany's isolation during the war. Two influential German expressionist horror films were The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922). These films expressed Germany's mood during and after WW1 through their dark and distorted artistic styles.

2. • German expressionism was a
reaction to WW1. It came about
because there was a large
movement in Germany due to the
isolation of the country in WW1. By
the1920’s the German audience
started to appreciate the German
cinema a lot more and by the end of
WW1 the ban had been lifted which
led the Germans to join the
international film industry. The two
main horror films that expressed
German expressionism were The
Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1920)and
Nosferatu (1922).

3. • This film is about two friends taking a trip
to their carnival ‘Alan’ (the friend) and
‘Francis’, (the main character) who spots
‘Jane’ (his fiancé). They come across ‘Dr.
Caligari’ who has a person in coffined
‘Cesare’ who ends up killing his friend
‘Alan’ as he predicted it. Then as
‘Francis’ investigates ‘Dr. Caligari’
‘Cesare’ is sent to murder ‘Jane’ but
instead kidnaps her and is chased down
by the village folk and in the end dies. In
the end it turns out ‘Dr. Caligari’ is
‘Francis’s’ doctor at a mental asylum and
‘Jane’ and ‘Cesare’ are inmates with him
in the hospital. And the flashback was
actually a mental flashback on ‘Francis’s’
behalf.

4. • This is another tail of horror and love between man and monster. The story
of this film is ‘Harker’ is an estate agent and goes to sell a house to ‘Count
Dracula’ but leaving his wife ‘Lucy’ behind from there home town where the
house ‘Dracula’ is buying. ‘Harker’ does not believe he is a vampire but soon
discovers evidence that proves other wise. He is then trapped by ‘Dracula’
and left injured and believed to be insane
by the doctors. Meanwhile ‘Dracula’ is
on the hunt for his wife ‘Lucy’ on his
journey he kills a ship full of men and
plays it off as the plague. When ‘Lucy’
turns him down and realises what he Is
she sacrifices herself to save the town
as they don’t believe her. By doing this
‘Dracula’ was tricked into the daylight
and then stabbed through the heart by
‘Van Healsing’ but there is a twist
‘Harker’ becomes a vampire after being
released from hospital

5. • The term 'horror' first comes into play with • The three greatest 19th century gothic horror
Horace Walpole's 1764 novel, The Castle of films were: Frankenstein which was about a
Otranto, full of supernatural shocks and mad scientist creating his own person who
mysterious melodrama. Although rather a was looked at as a monster. Also there was
stilted tale, it started a craze, spawning many Dracula which was about a blood sucking
imitators in what we today call the gothic vampire. Dr. Jekyll and M r Hyde is Based on
mode of writing. Better writers than the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr.
Walpole, such as Ann Radcliffe (The Henry Jekyll believes that there are two
Mysteries of Udolpho) and Matthew Gregory distinct sides to men - a good and an evil
Lewis (The Monk) took the form to new side. He believes that by separating the two
heights of thrills and suspense. For half a man can become liberated. He succeeds in
century, gothic novels reigned supreme. As his experiments with chemicals to accomplish
the Age of Enlightenment gave way to the this and transforms into Hyde to commit
new thinking of the early nineteenth horrendous crimes. When he discontinues
century, Romantic poets of the stature of use of the drug it is already too late.
Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner, Cristobel) and Goethe (The Erlking)
reflected the strong emotions of the
movement through a glass
darkly, recognising that fear and awe aren't
so very different sensations. The first great
horror classic (Frankenstein 1818) was
written by a Romantic at the heart of the
movement - Mary Shelley.

6. • Monsters in the horror genre are always
known as the ugly, scary creature that
people are haunted and chased by until
the very end of the film when they were
either defeated or helped. Horror was
looked at as an ‘exotic fairytale’ with the
monsters being looked at as ‘inhuman’
creatures. The big topics of the 1930’s
were monsters and mad scientists. The
two big ones were ‘Dracula’ and
‘Frankenstein’. With German
expressionism and the reign of Hitler and
him coming into power came the idea of
mad scientists and creating a monster. A
good comparison to this is Frankenstein.
The mad scientist being Hitler and the
democracy being Frankenstein. Where he
brought him to life and he caused chaos
and hell within the town. Just like Hitler
and his power.

7. • Werewolves were creatures
that were originally created as
men by day then a killing wolf
by night the stereotypical time
they changed were when it was
a full moon. A big film of the
1940’s was ‘The Wolf Man’ this
was an American film released
in 1941. It’s about a young man
moving back to his home town
and being bite by a wold and
being turned into a werewolf.
Who is then eventually killed by
his own dad.

8. • Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist
living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American
Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she
suffers from an ancient curse- whenever emotionally aroused, she will turn
into a panther and kill. Oliver thinks that is absurd and childish, so he sends
her to psychiatrist Dr. Judd to cure her. Easier said than done.. When naval
construction designer Oliver Reed sees Serbian born beauty Irena
Dubrovna at a zoo, he flirts with her, and soon they fall in love and marry.
Complications arise because Irena believes she is the victim of an ancient
Serbian curse that causes her to turn into a panther if a man tries to make
love to her, and the marriage is not consummated. Oliver sends Irena for
treatment with psychiatrist Dr. Louis Judd, and Oliver seeks "consolation"
with his colleague Alice Moore. Irena becomes jealous when she learns that
she may be losing Oliver to Alice.

9. • In the 1950’s the film industry saw the
introduction on the mutant and alien
invaders era. The producers of these
films went for the sci-fi horror genre
still appealing to the same audience
because the people still wanted more
horror after WWII. Godzilla was a big
mutant film made in 1954. Its about a
nuclear test gone wrong and it
creates a 164 foot tall destroying
machine that goes on a rampage and
destroys Tokyo eventually it is taken
down before it destroys the rest of the
world

10. • Along with mutant creatures
there was alien invaders this
was another sub genre idea in
the sci-fi horror range
introducing unearthly creatures
from other planets and space. A
big film that was to do with
alien invaders was the day the
earth stood still this was about
an alien robot coming to earth
to offer the humanity an
ultimatum

11. • In this era we were introduced
to the site of the ghosts and the
un-dead. Ghosts were seen as
people who had past away but
there souls still walked the
earth and normally came back
to haunt family or friends.
Zombies were looked at as un-
dead creatures just horrible
ugly looking creatures that
once use to be a normal human
being. and Satanism was all to
do with possessive nature and
being thought to had been
possessed by the devil.
Normally was shown amongst
kids and then making there
families lives hell.

12. • Launched in 1934, Hammer's first production was The Public Life Of Henry The
Ninth and, following a period of inactivity during WW2, the first picture from the newly incorporated
Hammer Film Productions Ltd. was 1949's Dr. Morelle: The Case Of The Missing Heiress. The new
company's first colour film was The Men Of Sherwood Forest in 1954, and in 1955 the success
of The Quatermass Experiment led to Hammer's move into horror films including The Curse Of
Frankenstein in 1957 and Dracula in 1958. A hugely successful run of Gothic monster movies
cemented the company's reputation as 'Hammer House of Horror', and deals with Universal
Studios and Columbia kept the production base at Bray Studios busy with an incredible volume of
films produced during this period. Half-way through the 1960s deals were struck with Seven Arts
and Twentieth Century Fox, which led to further horror classics including The Plague Of The
Zombies, Quatermass And The Pit, and The Devil Rides Out in addition to successful adventure
films including One Million Years B.C. The 1960s also saw Hammer's first move into television
production with Journey To The Unknown and in 1968 the company received the Queen's Award
for Industry. The 1970s saw a clutch of vampire movies and some lucrative movie spin-offs from
British sitcoms. To The Devil A Daughter was the last Hammer horror feature in 1976, but
production continued into the 1980s with two influential and well-loved TV anthology
series: Hammer House Of Horror and Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense .Hammer's return
to horror was heralded by interactive web serial Beyond The Rave, which was broadcast by
MySpace in 13 territories in 2008. Let Me In, Hammer's first theatrical feature of the
millennium, was released worldwide late 2010 to widespread critical acclaim. The
Resident and Wake Wood followed early 2011 with The Woman In Black(starring Daniel Radcliffe)
released February 2012 to five-star reviews and record-breaking box-office. Hammer's next release
will be The Quiet Ones starring Jared Harris and Sam Claflin.

13. • Theses films were very popular
because they mainly consisted of
just blood gore and a crazy killer.
They were normally just one killer
who was never right in the head
killing either a group of teenagers or
going after a certain person and
killing others trying to get to said
person. They done this because they
usually have a grudge or are seeking
a sick and twisted form of revenge. A
popular film of the 80’s was Friday
the 13th and this was about one guy
killing a group of teenagers usually
on a camping trip. There have been
many sequels since all following the
same story line.

14. • The horror genre soon cracked down on peoples
fears and found what to target to get the audience
sucked in and scar them. The idea of moral panics in
media is using things society are scared of at the
time and portraying them in film to frighten the
audience even more about what the film says about
the society at the time. A Video Nasty refers to a
movie banned from being distributed on video
cassette in the UK in the early 1980s. All of the
movies on the banned list were horror movies
considered to be too violent or obscene to be viewed
by anyone. The Obscene Publications act defined
and obscene movie to be one which may "tend to
deprave or corrupt persons who are likely, having
regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or
hear the matter contained or embodied in it".

15. • Torture porn: A splatter • Gore nography: A genre of film
film or gore film is a subgenre focusing soley on showing brutal
of horror film that deliberately gore and in which plot, story, and
focuses on graphic portrayals of characters are secondary or non
gore and graphic violence. These existent. Gore nographic films
films, through the use of special often claim to be horror films, but
effects, tend to display an overt are completely different because
interest in the vulnerability of the they are not actually frightening,
human body and the theatricality of just kind of sick.
its mutilation. The term "splatter
cinema" was coined by George A.
Romero to describe his film Dawn
of the Dead, though Dawn of the
Dead is generally considered by
critics to have higher
aspirations, such as social
commentary, than to be simply
exploitative for its own sake