David Cronenberg views horror films as an art form that can confront difficult aspects of life. He believes horror films do not need to sacrifice artistry to frighten audiences. By using horror, filmmakers can explore life's challenging themes and situations in an artistic way.

1. “I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.
Films that make you confront aspects of your own life
that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a
horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.”
David Cronenberg

3. ✔ Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
✔ Nosferatu (1922)
✔ Dracula (1931)
✔ Dracula Untold (2014)

4. ✔ Gothic Horror Literature paved the way for the
film horror genre.
✔ Lumiere Brothers (Spook Tale) and George
Melies (The Manor of the Devil) were the first to
produce ‘Horror’ on film.
✔ German expressionism was foundered. It looked
at expression over realism.
✔ The first horror film made in this creative and
artistic movement was ‘The Cabinet of Dr
Caligari’.
✔ Within this movement these other horror films
were made: The Golem (1920), Nosferatu
(1922) and Faust (1926)

5. The
Horror
Genre
Let’s break it down…

6. The word genre derives from French and means ‘type’ or
‘kind’.
In a study of media texts it is used to divide texts into easily
identifiable categories.

7. Create a spider diagram in your groups about what you
would expect to see/experience/ hear in a horror film.
Horror

9. In groups you are going to create a trailer for your own horror film
idea, set in a college.
You will need to:
Tuesday
 Plan and create a narrative
 Write a short treatment
 Create a storyboard following the iMovie template
 Present your idea to the rest of the group.
Wednesday
 Film a trailer using the iPad
 Edit your trailer using the iMovie template.
At the end of the week your trailers will be screened and the best
one will win a prize.

10. ✔ Film trailers come in various lengths and
versions, and are initially designed to
intrigue audiences about the film.
✔ This type of trailer is called a 'teaser' and
they contain 'enigmas' (unsolved clues as
to what might happen.)
✔ Any trailers released thereafter provide
audiences with further information and
clues, in the hope of persuading them to
go and see it.