History Of Horror Movies And How It Has Evolved Through Time

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In the present scenario films have set a wild craze among film lovers without which the earth would be a unusual place to survive. Really, you can't think yourself without movies. You are greatly influenced by watching films. You start thinking in broader aspects due to the positive impact of movies. Be it any movie, passionate, comedy, sensitive, family drama, action, secretive, suspense, cartoon or horror it has become a main entertainment feature in your lives.

Right from the time of Gothic Novels, the tales of vampire, demons, spirits and imps have become very famous. From the time of “Anglo-Saxon age” the devils, demons and the chivalry romance which became highly accepted, till date the ghosts and the imps have sustained their existence through bad activities in the horror movies. The very first horror film that was released in the year 1896 was Le Manoir Du Diable-The House of the Devil, by Georges Melies-a famous French filmmaker. It was on screens on the Christmas Eve, in Paris. It was a short movie for two-minutes which represented an obsessed and isolated fort and the house ...
... where the demon dwelled. After this, horror movies earned fame and curiosity by a lot of people and since the traditional epoch of English legendary and because of Gothic novels like Dracula, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein and a series of Mummy movies brought the horror films in public interest.

Horror films flooded into the film industry and a few heart pounding horror movies between 1970's and 80's like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday The 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street performed remarkably well in the field of horror films and gained a great popularity. It stayed in the minds of horror movie lovers for many years. Later on, in the 1990's some exciting horror movies like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, made a grand arrival and scared the large number of crowd to the extent that they got tremors even in their sleeps. These movies drew a large mass of teens from Colleges and High Schools. Then was a phase of the disrupting psychic demon that killed people mercilessly. You have even seen the bloody violence that showed nail-biting movies of Tarantino and the highly scary Asian Horror movies.

Then, for years the horror films with psychopathic murderer theory along with the remake of Japanese films and revised versions of traditional terror movies ruled the hearts of the subgenre. The Cannibal Holocaust's of the movie business were unobserved as these were censored and dumped for strange reasons. There were some horror films created after 1994 which contained top 10 horror scenes and the horror film Pulp Fiction was greatly appreciated and preceded amongst others. Right from the past, from slasher shots to psychic killer who killed naïve girls after which the violent merciless killer films were screened that gained great popularity. However, the present sufferers are not as innocent as they were before. The horror movies still show these psychic killers with evil intentions to kill and create terror. Eli Roth's Hostel was one of the most horrifying movies that was screened in the past decade.

The horror films of recent times are quite disrupting and affliction to create havoc and fright in the minds of the youngsters. But then the recent horror movies with panic creating sound effects and the horrifying graphics has given a new brutal horror image to the films as compared to those in the past. Initially films were very simple without any technical effects and sounds but after a great advancement in the field of pictures these have become more interesting and appealing. There are many Horror and Scary movies that a lot of people who love to see. The sophisticated technology that creates the special-effects, the terror graphics and the scary music with darkness in the background is what people are anxious to watch in recent horror films. The crowd wouldn't mind pissing off in their pants but would love to watch any scary films either the past ones of the recent ones.

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