History in Horror

History in Horror
Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears.This is a brief history of Horror throughout the years.

1890-1900s
The first depictions of supunatural events appear in several of the silent shorts shorts created by the film pioneer, Georges Meilies, in the late 1890s the best known being Le Manoir du Diable, which is sometimes credited as beign the first horror film. Another of his projects was 1898.  The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, among others. In 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

1910s-1920s
In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein. The macabre nature of the source materials used, made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Other European countries also contributed to the genre during this period. Though the word "horror" to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s (when Universal Pictures released their initial monster films), earlier American productions often relied on horror themes.


1930s-1940s
During the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) was quickly followed by James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and The Old Dark House (1932), both featuring monstrous mute antagonists.

1950s-1960s
With advances in technology, the tone of horror films shifted from the Gothic towards contemporary concerns. Two subgenres began to emerge: the Doomsday film and the Demonic film.Low-budget productions featured humanity overcoming threats such as alien invasions and deadly mutations to people, plants, and insects. During the later 1950s, Great Britain emerged, as a major producer of horror. In the late 1950s many films were Dracula and Frankenstein remakes.

1970s-1980s
The financial successes of the low-budget gore films of the ensuing years, and the critical and popular success of Rosemary's Baby, led to the release of more films with occult themes during the 1970s. The Exorcist (1973), the first of these movies, was a significant commercial success, and was followed by scores of horror films in which a demon entity is represented as the supernatural evil, often by impregnating women or possessing children. Also in the 1970s, the works of the horror author Stephen King began to be adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of Carrie (1976).

1990s
In the first half of the 1990s, the genre continued many of the themes from the 1980s. The slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Child's Play all saw sequels in the 1990s, most of which met with varied amounts of success at the box office. Two main problems pushed horror backward during this period: firstly, the horror genre wore itself out with the proliferation of nonstop slasher and gore films in the eighties. o re-connect with its audience, horror became more self-mockingly ironic and outright parodic, especially in the latter half of the 1990s.

 2000s
 The start of the 2000s saw quiet period for the genre. Films such as Hollow Man, Orphan, Wrong Turn, Cabin Fever, House of 1000 Corpses, and the previous mentions helped bring the genre back to Restricted ratings in theaters. There has also been a major return to the zombie genre in horror movies made after 2000. Resident Evil video game franchise was adapted into a film released in March 2002. A larger trend is a return to the extreme, graphic violence that characterized much of the type of low-budget, exploitation horror from the post-Vietnam years. Films such as Audition (1999), Wrong Turn (2003), and the Australian film Wolf Creek (2005).

2010s
 Remakes remain popular and serialized, found footage style web videos featuring Slender Man became popular on YouTube in the beginning of the decade. Such series included TribeTwelve, EverymanHybrid and Marble Hornets, the latter of which has been adapted into an upcoming feature film. Horror also became prominent on telivison with shows such as The Walking Dead, American Horror Story and The Strain.