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The document traces the history of horror movies from 19th century literature origins with Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker, through early 20th century German expressionism films, Hollywood horrors of the 1930s, 1950s sci-fi horrors, Hammer films of the 1960s popularizing gore, seminal works like Psycho and Night of the Living Dead in the 1960s establishing new genres, slasher films like Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the 1970s, body horror films in the 1980s, and big-budget adaptations and found footage films like The Blair Witch Project in the 1990s-2000s. It also provides some background facts on the influential 1978 slasher film Halloween.
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- Gothic literature - myths, legends, monsters, ghosts etc What happens when one tampers with the laws of nature German expressionism was designed to make cinema more artful - had an “anti-realist aesthetic”. In line with modernist art of the time. Nosferatu was Dracula story re-worked. Hollywood horrors had monsters as central subject.