history of horror films.

history of horror films.
Horror films are films that are created to inflict the feeling of fear and a lack of safety to the audience. Directors use shock, gore, amongst combining real life fears, such as; murderers, pandemics and surrealism. Horror films often include and evil force, built up with tension and What is considered to be a horror film has varied from decade to decade. These days, the term "horror" is applied to films which display more explicit gore, jump scenes/scares or supernatural content (Wes Craven's New Nightmare, A Tale of Two Sisters, Saw films, The Strangers, The Ring, Session 9)
Early horror movies are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. More recent horror films continue to exploit the monsters of literature. The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent short films. The early 20th century brought more milestones for the horror genre including the first monster to appear in a full-length horror film, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who had appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, "Notre-Dame de Paris" It was in the early 1930s that American film producers, particularly Universal Pictures Co. Inc., popularized the horror film, bringing to the screen a series of successful Gothic features including Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931)

With advances in technology that occurred in the 1950s, the tone of horror films shifted from the gothic toward concerns that some saw as being more relevant to the late-Century audience. A stream of low-budget productions featured humanity overcoming threats from "outside" and deadly mutations to people, plants, and insects, most notably in films imported from Japan, whose society had first-hand knowledge of the effects of nuclear radiation. Ghosts and monsters still remained popular, but many films used the supernatural premise to express the horror of the demonic. The Innocents and The Haunting are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s. In Rosemary's Baby by, the devil is made flesh.