Over the years, Horror has changed exponentially. From the Old monster films, to the new psychological horrors, we can say that horror has changed with the public.


At first, we have the 1800's with silent monster films parading the block, as they were all the rage, but they were still new, and so I can learn that these films could easily evolve.

An example of this could easily be the George Melies' House of the devil, which was used for amusement of the audience, instead of scaring.

According to "A brief history of horror", the horror films in the 20's were still exploring the new possibilities of horror. But they would only start to truly explore after the defeat of Germany in the first world war. I can learn from this that the people were only starting to become more interested in the wake of despair, with the fact of possible remedial results of watching these.


Then, from the 20's to 60's, a new brand of horror came to light, called universal horror. It was called this because of the film studios name "universal studios" and it includes things like the hunchback of notre Dame, The wolf man, and The mummy.

Then, in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock created an all new type of horror film. Slasher. This evolution of horror came to light when he published the revolutionary film "Psycho", which is about a crazed killer killing for fun.Not only did it make a new genre, it also upped the level of acceptable violence in these films.

All the way through the 70's, slasher films were getting more popular, including hit titles like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "black Christmas" were popular because of the amount of gore and relevance people saw it had (as the people being attacked were living normal lives like the audience).


Through the 80's, horror in general was becoming less popular, until 1995 where horror (slashers to be exact) were revolutionised with saw.




Saw was immensely gory, and it was a film with so much shown, so much blood and guts that it created a new sub genre. This new sub genre, called visual horror, were used to make the audience feel disgust by showing extreme violence or gruesome scenes with (for example) Eyes being gouged out of their sockets.






Horror is one of the oldest genres of film in the entire industry, and it has also changed, evolved, and adapted the most too. From short amusing two minute films, to gruesome hour long blood fests, I'm sure it will keep continuing to evolve, as it has inspired many in other platforms, not only in games and TV, but then these games will inspire more, and it may be any time the industry revolutionises itself once more.



Bibliography:

http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/a-brief-history-of-horror/