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Genre cycles in this era include the natural horror film, and the rise of slasher films which would expand in the early 1980s. Towards the 1990s, postmodernism entered horror, while some of the biggest hits of the decade included films from Japan with the success of Ring (1998).
Apr 29, 2019 · Films like "Peeping Tom" and "Psycho" were precursors to the slasher movies of the coming decades, while George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" changed the face of zombie movies forever.
- The Literary Years
- The Golden Age of Horror
- The Atomic Years
- The Gimmicky Years
- All Hell Breaks Loose
- The First Horror Movie Slashers
- The Doldrums
- The Present Day
- The Future of Horror Films
After the first horror movie, sometime between 1900 and 1920, an influx of supernatural-themed films followed. Many filmmakers—most of whom still trying to find their feet with the new genre—turn to literature classics as source material. The first adaptation of Frankenstein was released by Edison Studios in these early days, as well as Dr. Jekyll ...
Widely considered to be the finest era of the genre, the two decades between the 1920s and 30s saw many classics being produced and can be neatly divided down the middle to create a separation between the silent classics and the talkies. On the silent side of the line, you’ve got monumental titles such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosf...
Freakswere banned for thirty years in the country that really came into its own during this period: Great Britain. The Hammer horror company, while founded in 1934, only started to turn prolific during the fifties, but when it did, it was near global dominance (thanks to a lucrative distribution deal with Warner and a few other U.S. studios). Once ...
3D glasses? Electric buzzers installed into theatre seats? Paid stooges in the audience screaming and pretending to faint? Everything and anything was tried during the 50s and 60s in an attempt to further scare cinema audiences. This penchant for interactivity spilled over into other genres during the period but quickly died down in part due to the...
Occult was the flavor of the day between the 70s and 80s, particularly when it came to houses and kids being possessed by the Devil. The reason for this cultural obsession with religious evil during this period could fill an entire article on its own, but bringing it back into the cinema realm, we can boil the trend down to two horror milestones: T...
If there’s one trope that typifies the 80s, it’s the slasher format – a relentless antagonist hunting down and killing a bunch of kids in ever-increasing inventive ways, one by one. Arguably kicked off by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974, the output became prolific over the next decade. For every ten generic slashers, however, there was one fli...
Suffering from exhaustion in the wake of a thousand formulaic slasher movies and their sequels, the genre lost steam as it moved into the 90s. The advent of computer-generated special effects brought with it a number of lackluster CGI monster titles that did little to revive the genre, such as Anaconda (1997) and Deep Rising (1998). But it was a co...
The state of the horror industry is hotly contested. With the genre seemingly relying on churning out remakes, reboots, and endless sequels, many argue that it’s languishing in the doldrums once again with little originality to offer a modern audience. The resurgence of ‘torture porn’ is also derided as a subgenre, having come back into the fore in...
With perhaps more subgenres than any other branch of fictional filmmaking, it’s difficult to see how anyone can expand or advance on anything that has come before in cinematic horror. However, there’s no doubt somebody will, and that motivated and imaginative film schoolstudents become the Alfred Hitchcocks of tomorrow.
Jul 2, 2021 · From the gothic vampire of Bella Lugosi or the silent Michael Meyers, to the creature in It Follows, horror films hold an important and lasting place in the zeitgeist. Starting in the late 1800s, horror films have given birth to countless subgenres that oftentimes reflect a certain point in history. I wanted to try something a little different ...
Aug 21, 2024 · From the unsettling black-and-white classics of the early 20th century to the intense, genre-bending thrillers of today, horror films captivate audiences with their ability to provoke fear, tension, and suspense.
Jul 9, 2010 · In Bloody-Disgusting’s second entry in our “100 Years in Horror” series, we take a look back at the horror films that grew out of some of the most pivotal eras in American history.
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Oct 11, 2020 · Alfred Hitchcock continued to produce horror films in the 1940s to the 1970s. Some of his most memorable horror movies were The Birds (1963) and Psycho (1960). With Psycho, he invented modern...