This document provides an overview of the history and subgenres of horror movies. It discusses the earliest horror films from the late 1800s which featured supernatural elements like ghosts and devils. The 1920-1940 period saw the rise of classic horror films like Frankenstein and The Mummy. Subgenres that developed over time included slasher films, zombie movies, and psychological thrillers which relied more on tension and jump scares than graphic violence. Modern horror movies have benefited from advances in technology and special effects to create more realistic and immersive frightening scenes.

1. HISTORY OF
HORROR
GENRE
ByJoseph Camino

2. Sub genres
Of Horror
• Action – Is a sub genre that combines evil with an
event or supernatural in horror movies with gun fights
for example ‘Blade’.
• Comedy – This sub genre consists in comedy and
horror fiction. It creates a joke out of a scary themed
film, for example ‘Scary Movie’.
• Gothic – Gothic horror contains both gothic and
horror, these consist of some of the earliest horror
films such as ‘Dracula’.
• Psychological –This sub-genre uses supernatural to
build up tension and further the plot and almost always
consist it a few jump scares, for example ‘The Ring
Two’.
• Slasher – Deals with a lot of violence, killing and
contains a lot of mystery and suspense, such as the film
‘PSYCHO’.

3. Types of
Horror
Creatures
• Vampires - In the early 1900's, vampires were seen as
being scary in films. A good example of a popular scary
vampire is Dracula.Vampires were seen as creatures
who preyed on humanity. However, nowadays,
vampires are seen as being romanticised because time
has changed.
• Zombies – Zombies and skeletons were the first type
of monsters to appear in horror movies, just being
shown be costumes, but as the technology progresses,
zombie movies have become very popular with the
realistic CGI such as ‘WorldWar Z’.

4. First Ever
Horror
Movie
• Just a few years after the first filmmakers emerged in
the mid-1890s, Mellies made the first ever ‘horror’
movie in 1898.The film consisted in cauldrons,
animated skeletons, ghosts, transforming bats and the
Devil.
• The movie was the first example of a film to include the
supernatural aspect in a film and almost created a
whole new type of movie genre for what was to come.

5. Horror
Movies over
the years
• 1900-1920 –The use of supernatural themed films
were introduced and became very popular with almost
every film maker using the new aspect to the horror
genre.
• 1920-1940 –This period of time was referred to as the
Golden age of horror as many classics were produced
such as ‘Frankenstein’ in 1931 and ‘The Mummy’ a year
later.Also the 30’s was when horror was first indicated
to be a proper genre.
• 1940-1960 –The horror genre became much less
supernatural, because of the war taken place in Europe
films featured antagonists and that radioactive
mutation became a common theme.

6. History
movies over
the years
• 1960’s –Things such as 3D glasses and electric buzzers
installed into the seats were all tried in the 60’s to further
the scare for the viewers.The interactive typed cinema
made filmmakers create different kind of horror movies
than normal, but this soon died down as it was too
expensive to carry on.
• 1970-1980 – Horror genre mainly consisted in Devils
typed films with children getting possessed etc. Main
examples were ‘The exorcist’ in 1973 and ‘The Omen’ in
1976.
• 1980-1990This was the decade for slasher films, with
sequels being produced and classic slasher films such as
‘TheTexas Chainsaw Massacre’.
• 2000’s – 200o’s was when films were being introduced to
knew technology allowing greater CGI etc. Zombie genre
was very common, with many popular films such as ‘World
War Z’. Now within the horror genre it mainly relies on
remakes to make its success in the box office.