The History Of Horror Movies
There’s almost certainly no other movie-genre as fascinating as the genre of horror movie. Even though horror movies are frequently dismissed as cheap and violent B- Movies, since the beginning of motion picture history great this genre has continually attracted respected movie directors masters. If you take the above instance, you will find out that the history of horror motion picture and movie history itself were born at the same time.To better comprehend this we’re going to look at several of the most influential movie directors from the horror genre.
“Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat” is one of the first horror movies ever made. This one minute video displays nothing but a train incoming at a station. These days we would see such a film as a nothing but a short documentary or boring videoclip. But back in 1896 the audience was thrilled and terrified by the images of a moving train on a screen. If we label horror films as movies that bring forth panic and terror from its viewers, “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat” is per definition a horror movie.
It didn’t take long for different movie directors to exploit this aspect of fear. The first official genre video was made in the same year: “The House of the Devil”.
If you’re fascinated in horror movies, you’ve perhaps started to watch Japanese horror movies almost a decade ago when “Ring” made the news as one of the scariest movies ever made – If you have not watched the original yet, you have really missed out on one of the most amazing horror movies. Take a look at movie history and you will see that Japan has created horror movies as early as in 1898! Last year, Kiyoshi Kurosawa gained a prize in Cannes for “Tokyo Sonata”. He’s one of the major directors of the latest wave of Japanese horror movies – Cure, Pulse and Charisma are just a few of his best well-known films.
Fritz Lang is considered one of the masters of early motion picture history. He’s best known for the sci-if masterpiece “Metropolis” made in 1926, a fore-runner of movies like “Blade Runner” and “Batman”.The other masterpiece Fritz Lang is famous for is Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The images and film language used then, are still in use today.
Alfred Hitchcock is debatable the most influential filmmaker from the ’50s and ’60s. Leaving his stamp on the action motion picture with “North by Northwest”, he went on to shoot two of the best horror movies in movie history: “The Birds” and “Psycho”. If “North by Northwest” is considered the birth of the modern action video, so is “Psycho” the birth of the slasher genre.
John Carpenter and Sean Cunningham procured their notes from “Psycho” and went on to set up two horror movie series that are still being made today: Halloween and Friday the 13th.
Two of the most succesful franchises in recent years are the “Lord of the Rings” films and the “Spiderman” films.
Sam Raimi began his career with a small budget B-movie called “The Evil Dead” and continued this series with another two films before he were to become an established mainstream director in the nineties and went on to shoot “Spiderman”. He in no way forgot about his roots and went back to this genre with “Drag me to hell” last year.
Before Peter Jackson made “Lord of the Rings” he was best know for a inexpensive zombie movie going by the name “Braindead” – a real fun ride with an unforgetable ending where dozens of zombies are killed by a lawnmower. Unquestionably more enjoyable and entertainment than “King Kong” could offer.
Will he give this genre one more try? If you saw what Sam Raimi did, a return to this genre wouldn’t be the most terrible thing to do. We will just have to wait and see what upcomming horror movies are announced.
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