Hannah White

History Of Horror

Horror is an ancient art form. We have tried to terrify each other with tales, which trigger the less logical parts of our imaginations for as long as we've told stories.

Horror Movies

1896 Le Manoir du diable (aka "The House of the Devil") by Georges Melies.

Many of the earliest feature length 'horror films' were created by German film makers in 1910s and 1920s, during the era of German Expressionist films.

It was in the early 1930s that American film producers, particularly Universal Pictures Co. Inc., popularized the horror film, bringing to the screen a series of successful Gothic features including Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931), some of which blended science fiction films with Gothic Horror.

1950-1960’s With advances in technology that occurred in the 1950s, the tone of horror films shifted from the gothic toward concerns that some saw as being more relevant to the late-Century audience. The horror film was seen to fall into two sub-genres: the horror-of-armageddon film and the horror-of-the-demonic film

War Of The Worlds (1953)