- First depictions of supernatural events- e.g- by Georges Melies in the late 1890's
- In 1898, Japan made two horror films - 'Bake Jizo' and 'Shinin no Sosei'
- In 1922, first ever vampire film made - 'Nosferatu'
1930's-1940's
- Universal pictures began creating successful horror films- e.g- 'Dracula' in 1931
- Shortly after, 'Frankenstein' was released in 1931
- In 1932, Tom Browning made controversial film 'Freaks' about a group of circus freaks
1950's-1960's
- Advances in technology meant the emergence of two sub genres: Armageddon films and Demonic films
- During late 1950's, Great Britain became main producer of horror films-e.g- Alfred Hitchcocks 'Psycho'(1960) was first 'slasher' film
- In 1968, 'Night of the living dead' was released by George A Romero - very influential
1970's- 1980's
- More films released with Occult theme - e.g- 'The Exorcist' in 1973
- The idea's of the 1960's had began to influence films such as ' The Hills Have Eyes'
- in 1978- John Carpenter created 'Hallowen'
- 1980's- emergence of gore - e.g- Sam Raimi's Evil dead films
1990's
- Due to amount of slasher's being released in 1980's, horror genre was in decline but classic horrors like 'Silence of the lambs' were still being created
- To reconnect with audience the genre became more parodic and self-mocking
- Wes Cravens 'Scream' films began in the 2990's
- As well as films such as 'I know what you did last summer'
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