The History of Horror
Silent horror films
 1895- Spook tale by the Lumiere brothers.
http://www.artfuloptics.com/portfolio/dancing-skeleton-lumierebrothers/
 1896- The manor of the devil by dir. Georges melies. This was considered
to be the first horror film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPmKaz3Quzo
 1910- Frankenstein by Thomas Edison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcLxsOJK9bs
 1911- Dante’s inferno by dir. Giuseppe de Liguoro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4We4MDheg
German expressionism
 1920- The cabinet of DR. Caligari by dir. Robert Wiene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrXU58gb4pw
 1922- Nosferatu by F. W. Murnau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k51eCnC8ucw
End of the silent horror films
 1931- Dracula by dir. Tod browning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nfmh178L98
 1942- Cat people by dir. Jacque Tourneur. The first film to make the
atmosphere scary without seeing the monster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbGJrAVWUo
 1948- Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein by dir. Charles Barton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5s3_XV1rkA
Pulp science fiction horror
 1951- The thing from another world by Christian Nyby and Howard
Hawks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xcVxkTZzM
 1951- The day the earth stood still by Robert Wise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaQl4OcsJFo
 1953- The beast from 20000 fathoms by Eugène Lourié.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi585958425/
 1954- The creature from the black lagoon by Jack Arnold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ariuokNFhSw
 1954- Godzilla by Ishiro Honda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKrj1ymJzmo
 1956- Forbidden planet by Fred M. Wilcox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEj8bZo9IGA
 1956- Invasion of the body snatchers by Don Siegel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNdzSxXw-I
 1957- The curse of Frankenstein by Terence Fisher. It was the first
horror film to show blood in colour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkIkFoSek2o
 1960- Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. http://movieclips.com/HvkR-psychomovie-the-shower/
 1960- The little shop of horrors by Roger Corman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5XoTlyZW2M
 1963- The birds by Alfred Hitchcock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplpQt424Ls
1964- End of the production code
 1968- The night of the living dead by George A. Romero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pElSu_ECJGM
Occult horror
 1968- Rosemary’s baby by Roman Polanski.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewtQsgN5uo
 1973- The Exorcist by William Friedkin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSxuXQCEC7M
 1976- The Omen by Richard Donner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDHisWRsE98
 1979- The Amityville horror by Stuart Rosenberg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDEJr2Sqhxc
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1974- The Texas chainsaw massacre by Tobe Hooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3nWMbTfPqc
 1975- Jaws by Steven Spielberg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMLFO6TsFM
 1976- Carrie by Brian De Palma. The first Stephen king book put to
film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5odtIbTbDyA
 1978- Halloween by John Carpenter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ke9IPTIJQ
 1979- Alien by Ridley Scott.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsD6AL3HJtM
 1980- Friday the 13th by Sean S. Cunningham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S8YFTcEDME
 1980- The shining by Stanley Kubrick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDpipB4yehk
 1981- The evil dead by Sam Raimi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ob3LaslGs
 1982- The thing by John Carpenter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ftmr17M-a4
 1984- A nightmare on elm street by Wes Craven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZCh3fOUPg
 1991- Silence of the lambs by Jonathan Demme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRqXBsgnYok
 1992- Dead alive by Peter Jackson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8LIug1cP04
 1996- Scream by Wes Craven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWxSBbBX4fs
 1997- I know what you did last summer by Jim Gillespie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcWK0M4VMjA
 1999- The Blair witch project by Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick.
This was one of the First found footage horror films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m_lqGnLtWA
 2000- Final destination by James Wong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeqtspV_9l8
 2002- 28 days later by Danny Boyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEkJAaGhJhQ
 2004- Saw by James Wan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1QgOMQ-ls
 2005- Hostel by Eli Roth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxonzr9Iew
 2007- Paranormal activity by Oren Peli.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoWuDy5kys
Horror codes and conventions:
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The types of horror
Slasher
Torture porn
Psychological
Gore
Monster
Religious
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What a horror film should do
To frighten you
To cause dread and alarm
To captivate the audience
To shock the audience
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Fears reinforced by the horror genre
Nightmares
Alienation
The unknown
Vulnerability
Loss of identity
Death
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