- Frighten & panic
- Cause dread &alarm
- Evoke our hidden worst fears
- Captivate & entertain us in a liberating experience
- Often conclude in a terrifying shocking finale
Depending on the audience watching, horror can create different types of fear
- Vulnerability
- Terror of the unknown
- Nightmares
- Alienation
- Revulsion
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. From the ballads of the ancient world to modern urban myths, audiences willingly offer themselves up to sadistic storytellers to be scared witless, and they are happy to pay for privilege.
- The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by the film pioneer George Melies in the late 1890's.
- In the early 20th century, the first monster appeared in a horror film, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who has appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, Notre-Dame de paris
- During the early period of talking pictures, the American Movie studio Universal pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Browning's Dracula (1931), with Bela Lugosi, was quickly followed by James Whale's Frankenstein . Some of these blended science fiction films with Gothic horror, such as The Invisible Man (1933) and, mirroring the earlier German films, featured a mad scientist. These films, while designed to thrill, also incorporated more serious elements.
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