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The history of the horror genre:

Studios

The history of the horror genre-

SAW (2004)

Other studios followed Universal's lead. Tod Browning made the once controversial Freaks (1932) for MGM, based on "Spurs", a short story by Cintia Gomez, about a band of circus freaks. The studio disowned the completed film after cutting about 30 minutes; it remained unreleased in the United Kingdom for thirty years. Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paramount, 1931), remembered for its use of color filters to create Jekyll's transformation before the camera, Michael Curtiz's Mystery of the Wax Museum (Warner Brothers, 1933), and Island of Lost Souls (Paramount, 1932) were all important horror films.

What is Horror?

The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the best known being Le Manoir du Diable, which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein, which was thought lost for many years.The second monster appeared in a horror film: Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, who had appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).

Saw is a 2004 independent American film directed by James Wan.

The film's story revolves around two men, chained in a dilapidated subterranean bathroom and are each given instructions via a recorder explaining how to escape. Adam is told he must escape the bathroom, while Lawrence is told to kill Adam before a certain time, or Lawrence's family will die. Meanwhile, police detectives investigate and attempt to find the victims' location and the mastermind behind the current "game" .Saw was first screened on January 19, 2004. Lionsgate then released the film in the United States and Canada in October 2004.

Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley. Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears & terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, demons, gore, torture, zombies, cannibals, & serial killers.

The Mist (2007)

Gothic horror

Sub-genres

During the early period of talking pictures,(1930s & 40s) the American Movie studio Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series- Tod Browning's Dracula (1931), with Bela Lugosi, was quickly followed by James Whale's Frankenstein (also 1931) and The Old Dark House (1932), both featuring Boris Karloff as monstrous mute antagonists.

The Mist is a 2007American science-fiction horror based on the 1980 novella by Stephen King. The film was written and directed by Frank Darabont. A violent storm hits a town, then an approaching cloud of mist appears the next morning. As the mist quickly envelops the area, a group of people get trapped in a local grocery store, among them, artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son. The people soon discover that within the mist lives numerous species of horrific, unworldly creatures that entered through an inter-dimensional rift, possibly caused by a project on a nearby military base. As the world around them turns into a literal Hell-on-earth, the horrified citizens try desperately to survive this apocalyptic disaster.

These include...

  • Action horror
  • Body horror
  • Comedy horror
  • Gothic horror
  • Natural horror
  • Psychological horror
  • Slasher film
  • Splatter film
  • Zombie film
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