horror time line

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Timeline of horror
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• when horror movies started to be distributed, all
  films were in black and white and that short
  films. The film F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, was
  the first vampire themed film in 1922, and was an
  unauthorized adaptation of Bram stoker's Dracula.
• The first depictions of supernatural events
  appear in several of the silent shorts created by
  the film pioneer Georges mêlées in the late
  1890s, the best known film being Le Manoir du
  Diable, which is sometimes credited as being the
  first horror film.

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1930's-1949

• Between the times of 1930's and 1940's universal
  studios became popular due to its gothic horror
  genre.
• Tod Browning's Dracula (1931),
• James Whale's Frankenstein (1931)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• The Mummy (1932)
• Son of Frankenstein (1939).
• The Wolf Man (1941),

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1950'-1969's

• Due to the advances of technology, the tone of
  horror films and the gothic genre soon shifted to
  contemporary. This caused sub genres to evolve.
  two being the horror of Armageddon (apocalyptic
  fiction) and the horror of the demonic. Low
  budget 'outsider' films also bean to emerge, one
  being Godzilla (1954).
• A film that was very popular in this time was
  George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
  (1968). the film was both Produced and directed
  by Romero, on a budget of 114,000. the film had
  grossed 12 million at the box office in the
  United States and 30 million internationally.
  This horror-of-Armageddon film about zombies
  blends psychological insights with gore. Moving
  further away from the gothic horror.
• A demonic horror genre is the 1968 film
  rosemary's baby, set in new York as a young
  housewife who is impregnated by the devil. this
  became a critical and popular success.

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1970's- 1989

• Because of the success of Rosemary's baby, low
  budget gore films began to follow over this time
  period with the same type of style genre and
  theme. The Exorcist (1973), was the first of
  these movies, was a significant commercial
  success, which went on to expand and create
  sequels.
• This led on to a number of films appearing in
  which, a demon entity is represented as the
  supernatural evil, often by impregnating women or
  possessing children.
• The ideas of the 1960s began to influence horror
  films, as the youth involved in the
  counterculture began exploring the medium. Wes
  Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (1977) and Tobe
  Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) (
  actually based on Serial Killer Ed Gein) recalled
  the Vietnam war George A. Romero satirized the
  consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of
  the Dead (1978)
• a cycle of horror slasher films were now being
  produced from the late 70's to early 80's, for
  the likes of,John Carpenter created Halloween
  (1978), Sean Cunningham made Friday the 13th
  (1980), Wes Craven directed A Nightmare On Elm
  Street (1984), and Clive Barker made Hellraiser
  (1987). This sub-genre would be mined by dozens
  of increasingly violent movies throughout the
  subsequent decades, and Halloween became a
  successful independent film.

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• jaws (1975) was another film that had come about
  in the horror genre as a terror shark causing
  trouble in a little town.
• john carpenters the thing (1982) was another
  type of sub genre for horror. This was a mix of
  horror and sci-fi.
• The 1980s saw a wave of gory "B movie" horror
  films although most of them were panned by
  critics, many became cult classics and later saw
  success with critics. A significant example is
  Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies, which were
  low-budget gorefests but had a very original
  plotline which was later praised by critics.
  Other horror film examples include cult vampire
  classic Fright Night (1985), The Lost Boys
  (1987), Gremlins, the Critters, and the
  Poltergeist series.

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1990's

• 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, but
  all were panned by fans and critics, with the
  exception of Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
  and the hugely successful Silence of the Lambs
  (1991).

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2000's

• Final Destination (2000) marked a successful
  revival of teen-centered horror and spawned four
  sequels. The Jeepers Creepers series was also
  successful. 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. Comic
  book adaptations like the Blade series,
  Constantine (2005), and Hellboy (2004) also
  became box office successes. Video game
  adaptations like Doom (2005) and Silent Hill
  (2006) also had moderate box office success while
  Van Helsing (2004) and Underworld series had huge
  box office success.

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• The success of foreign language foreign films
  continued with the Swedish films Marianne (2011)
  and Let the Right One In (2008), which was later
  the subject of a Hollywood remake, Let Me In
  (2010). Another trend is the emergence of
  psychology to scare audiences, rather than gore.
• The Others (2001) proved to be a successful
  example of psychological horror film

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• Remakes of Japanese movies have been Americanised
  such as The Ring (2002), The Grudge (2004), and
  The Eye (2008). In March 2008, China banned the
  movies from its market.
• zombie genre had been revisited in the later
  2000's to 2010.The Resident Evil video game
  franchise was adapted into a film released in
  March 2002. Six sequels have followed. The film I
  Am Legend (2007), Quarantine (2008), Zombieland
  (2009), and the British film 28 Days Later (2002)
  an update of the film return of the living dead.
  28 days later spawned a sequel.

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• 28 Weeks Later (2007). An updated remake of Dawn
  of the Dead (2004) soon appeared as well as the
  zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004). This
  resurgence led George A. Romero to return to his
  Living Dead series with Land of the Dead (2005),
  Diary of the Dead (2007) and Survival of the Dead
  (2010).
• during this decade the amount of remakes of past
  horror films happened such as Thirteen Ghosts
  (2001), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The
  Hills Have Eyes (2006), Friday the 13th (2009), A
  Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), Children of the
  Corn (2009),29 Prom Night (2008), Day of the
  Dead (2008) and My Bloody Valentine (2009).
• video recorded films have been a most popular
  make of genre, paranormal activity and its
  sequels have happened

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2010-

• Child's Play saw a sequel with Curse of Chucky
  (2013). While Halloween, Friday the 13th, and
  Hellraiser all have reboots in the works. Horror
  has become prominent on television with The
  Walking Dead, "American Horror Story" Under the
  Dome, and The Strain, also many popular horror
  films have had successful television series made,
  Psycho had Bates Motel, The Silence of the Lambs
  had Hannibal, while Scream and Friday the 13th
  both have television series in development.
  You're Next (2011), and The Cabin in the Woods
  (2012) led to a return to the slasher genre.
• The Purge (2013) and its sequel The Purge
  Anarchy (2014) both became commercial successes
  with their unique concepts of society being the
  killer.

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Short films that have been created into feature
length films

• Some short films Saw, paranormal activity and
  district 9, started out as shorts, but they saw
  potential to expand on the shorts and make them
  in to entertaining full features.

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Why has this been done and how does this link to
my film?

• This has been done in order to research the genre
  we were looking to base our film on which is a
  horror film to begin with. Though we have chosen
  to adapt to this and create a psychological/thrill
  er making our film into a hybrid.

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