Horror

Horror films are series of films originating from the horror genre that are designed to elicit fright, fear, terror, or horror from viewers. more...

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In horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters, sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into the everyday world and usually include a central villain. Early horror films often drew inspiration from characters and stories from classic literature, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, ] and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Later horror films, in contrast, often drew inspiration from the insecurities of life after World War II, giving rise to the three distinct, but related, sub-genres: the horror-of-personality film, the horror-of-Armageddon film, and the horror-of-the-demonic film. The last sub-genre may be seen as a modernized transition from the earliest horror films, expanding on their emphasis on supernatural agents that bring horror to the world.

Horror films have been criticized for their graphic violence and dismissed as low budget B-movies and exploitation films. Nonetheless, all the major studios and many respected directors, including Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, have made forays into the genre. Serious critics have analyzed horror films through the prisms of genre theory and the auteur theory. Some horror films incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, mockumentary, black comedy, and thrillers. Some horror films are made in B-movie, made by minor film company. Some (not few) horror films are in public domain (e.g. The Little Shop of Horrors, Night of the Living Dead, The Terror, Suspiria, Embryo)

History

1890s-1920s

The horror genre is nearly as old as film itself. The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by film pioneers such as Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the most notable being his 1896 Le Manoir du diable (aka \"The House of the Devil\") which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film. Another of his horror projects was the 1898 La Caverne maudite (aka \"The Cave of the Demons\", literally \"the accursed cave\"). In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein, though no known prints survive.

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 book, \"Notre-Dame de Paris\" (published in 1831). Films featuring Quasimodo included Alice Guy's Esmeralda (1906), The Hunchback (1909), The Love of a Hunchback (1910) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1911).

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