1. Where horror films where first was originated
The first horror movie originated from a very imaginative French director named
Georges Melies , the film was titled Le Manoir Du Diable which translated into ‘ The
Haunted castle’. The short two minute film contained the most old school horror
characters such as Vampires, flying bats and ghosts.
In the 18th and 19th century vampires began to emerge in popular fiction, which is when a
Anglo-Irish writer Bram Stoker created his 1897 vampire novel Dracula. It is the most
popular vampire based piece of writing and has influenced many of the modern horror
films.

2. 1960’s Horror
Pre in 1960’s horror films consisted of the typical antagonists of ghosts, vampires and
monsters but in the 1960’s the movies became more human based and became the
antagonist as well as the protagonist ,we saw this in films like the Psychco this scares
the audience more as they are use to monsters and vampires being evil but to see a
human being the antagonist frightened the audience as anyone could be evil not just
disfigured monsters. More films like this are twisted nerve and carnival of souls.

3. Modern day horror films
In modern day horror films the main thing that scares us is the unknown. If we
don’t know what the antagonist is un till the end, or we don’t know the history
or nature of the person/creature we are more scared. Examples are the Texas
Chainsaw Massacre as we don’t know anything about the family or why leather
face hides his face. Many horrors leave us confused which attracts our attention
for an sequels such as saw.

4. 1960’s popular horror films Modern popular horror films
The Haunting Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Rosemary’s Baby REC
Night of the Living Dead Paranormal Activity
Blood feast The Crazies
Massacre of the Red Death Shrooms
The Tomb of Ligeia Silent Hill
Saw
The Hills Have Eyes
Resident Evil
Popular Directors
Underworld
Mirrors
M. Night Shyamalan
Dead Silence
(Manoj Shyamalan)
Brad Anderson
Steve Beck
Tom Holland
Julian Richards
Richard Stanley
Pete Walker