2. About Horror
• Horror films were first seen in 1931.
• The first appeared horror movies were ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’.
• Firstly most were about vampires and monsters
What is horror ?
• Disturbing movies that try to cause emotions of fear and disgust from
viewers.
• Often involve the invasion of an evil force, event, or somebody usually of
supernatural origin into our everyday life.
Why do people enjoy it ?
• People watch horror movies not to actually be afraid but to be excited
and engaged to the film.
• The great feeling of relief you get after 2 hours of terror.

3. Horror before and after
Before After
Over time horror has changed
as it is now not all about
ghosts and haunting people
but involves more :
• Cursing
• Situations of everyday life
• Situations we can relate to
• Less vampires, monsters
etc.
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Phantom of the Opera’ hell’ released in 2009. Old lady
released in 1925. it is a places a curse on young
about a deformed Ghost women, after three days of
who haunts the Paris growing torment, will fall her
Opera house into the depths of Hell to burn
for eternity.

4. Examples of horror films
Frankenstein
Dracula
Phantom of
the opera
The wolfman
Drag me to hell Final destination
saw
scream

5. More about the films Phantom of the opera
• directed by Rupert Julian
Dracula • distributed by Universal
• Director Tod browning Studios
• Universal studios production •Released in 1925
• Released in 1931 • about a ghost who haunts
• About a crazy man who lived on human the Paris opera house.
blood and killed innocent girls.
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• distributed by Universal Pictures
•Released in 1931
• based on a dead scientist who turns out
to be alive and goes round scaring
innocent people.
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6. Final destination 5
• Directed by Steven Quale
• Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
• Released in 2011
• About a group of co workers who go on a
work retreat while one of the workers dreams
Drag me to hell
that the bridge the coach was on was going to
• Directed by Sam Raimi
fall they manage to escape it but ‘when death
• produced by Grant Curtis
chooses you no one can save u from it’
Robert G. Tapert
•Released in 2009
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• about a Young girl who neglates a
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loan to a gypsy women therefore this
women curses her and after 3 days
drags her to the depths of hell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B
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7. Scream Saw
•Directed by Wes Craven • directed by James Wan
•Distributed by Dimension Films • distributed by Lionsgate
•Released in 1996 • released in 2004
• about a suspect that calls the • about two men who are chained in
fans of horror movies and attacks a bathroom and are given
them when they least expect, instructions of how to escape, one is
police is involved but no one can told he must escape the bathroom,
catch this person ! while the other is told to kill him
before a certain time, or his family
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8. Conventions
In horror movies we all expect :
• some kind of ghost
• innocent adult, girl or child
• Opening doors
• chains
• locked empty rooms
• screaming
• home alone in a massive house