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A Guided Tour of Hell: A Brief History of Horror Films

A Guided Tour of Hell: A Brief History of Horror Films.

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A Guided Tour of Hell: A Brief History of Horror Films

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  1. A Guided Tour of Hell: A Brief History of Horror Films

  2. Before Jigsaw, there was Freddy Kruger and Jason Vorhees. Before those two were slicing and dicing up teenagers, there were Michael Myers and Leatherface. And before them, there were Dracula, the Wolfman, Doctor Frankenstein and his monster. And before all of them was Nergal, Lord of Death

  3. WHO IS NERGAL?

  4. Who’s the monster? Frankenstein or Dr. Frankenstein? Frankenstein 1931

  5. So how did anyone every think of making a horror film?

  6. The Great Train Robbery, 1903 Edison Inventions

  7. Kinetophone Kinetoscope Kinetograph

  8. The Devil’s Castle (1897)by Georges Méliès

  9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)

  10. The Death of Dracula 1921

  11. Monster of Fate 1914

  12. Hunch Back of Notre Dame (1939) The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

  13. The Thing from Another World (1951) War of the Worlds (1953)

  14. The Haunting (1963) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

  15. Psycho Silence of the Lambs Monster Monster Se7en 1960’s: A New Monster: Man The Psychological Thriller

  16. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 1970’s: Satan, Man, Society and Extermes

  17. The SHINING (1979) The Exorcist (1973)

  18. 1980’s: Rise of the Slasher Film

  19. 1990’s: Remakes and Refinements

  20. Fallen (1998) Fallen (1998) Japan Rise Again: Homegrown Mass Murder

  21. The Orphanage (2007) Pan’s Labryinth (2006) Cronos Late 2000 and early 21st Century: Fantasy Horror in Latin America based on Social Issues

  22. Homework: • What SubGenre of Horror is your film? • What is the mythology or Folklore that sets the rules for your genre? • Specifically, what are the rules of your film? • Look up some screeplays on the internet to see how they write the characters growth. • Do I believe the things I write about? • Research, Research, Research!

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