Horror Film

Horror films are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre.

Horror Movie Unit

VAMT 11/12

Discussion: What may have scared you in a story or movie?  What makes a thrilling storyline?

What has changed in today’s new horror flicks that may be different than traditional horror movies?

What may encourage a fearful audience in the Blair Witch movie?

What about any of the Saw movies?

Make a list of your group responses to their own fears and phobias.

Do we share common fears?  Is the fear a cultural or global fear?

What if the movie Jaws had a different sound…would we still feel scared?

(Find a sound that is not scary to pair with the movie jaws)

Consider audio in your film: use and create original sound with found objects.

Discuss:
How will you create suspense?
For this film use AUDIO and LIGHTING to create fear, suspence.
Stay away from cheap blood and guts and focus more on the story!!
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-Kailey is holding auditions and opening the auditions to the school. Auditions are on THURSDAY at lunch in my room. This is a four part horror series

titled: 'One by One'

Famous horror movies through the ages:

1890s–1920s

Lon Chaney, Sr. in The Phantom of the Opera

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.

1930s–1940s

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster

It was in the early 1930s that American film producers, particularly Universal Pictures Co. Inc., popularized the horror film,^[9] bringing to the screen a series of successful Gothic features including Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931), some of which blended science fiction films with Gothic horror, such as James Whale's The Invisible Man (1933). Tod Browning, director of Dracula, also made the extremely controversial Freaks based on Spurs by Ted Robbins.

1950s–1960s

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. The horror film was seen to fall into two sub-genres: the horror-of-armageddon film and the horror-of-the-demonic film.

1970s–1980s

The end of the Production Code of America in 1964, the financial successes of the low-budget gore films of the ensuing years, and the critical and popular success of Rosemary's Baby (1968), led to the release of more films with occult themes in the 1970s, such as The Exorcist (1973), and scores of other horror films in which the Devil represented the supernatural evil, often by impregnating women or possessing children. The genre also included gory horror movies with sexual overtones, made as "A-movies" (as opposed to "B movies").^[13] Some of these films were made by respected auteurs.

1990s

Brad Dourif voices Chucky in Child's Play series

In the first half of the 1990s, the genre continued many of the themes from the 1980s. Sequels from the Child's Play and Leprechaun series enjoyed some commercial success. The slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Halloween all saw sequels in the 1990s, most of which met with varied amounts of success at the box office, but all were panned by fans and critics, with the exception of Wes Craven's New Nightmare.

2000s

The release of the Saw film series has emerged the torture porn genre and currently holds the Guinness World Record of the highest grossing horror franchise in history.

The start of the 2000s saw a quiet period for the genre.^[18] The re-release of a restored version of The Exorcist in September 2000 was successful despite the film having been available on home video for years. Franchise films such as Freddy vs. Jason also made a stand in theaters. Final Destination (2000) marked a successful revival of teen-centered horror and spawned four sequels. The Jeepers Creepers series was also successful. Films like Wrong Turn, Cabin Fever, House of 1000 Corpses, and the previous mentions helped bring the genre back to Restricted ratings in theaters.

Remakes

Remakes of earlier horror movies became routine in the 2000s. In addition to 2004's remake of Dawn of the Dead, as well as 2003's remake of both Herschell Gordon Lewis' cult classic 2001 Maniacs and the remake of Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there was also the 2007 Rob Zombie written and directed remake of John Carpenter's Halloween