"The History of Horror" Video Explores the Evolution of Movie Fear
I’ve been a huge fan of horror movies for as long as I can remember. I love the art of these films, and I relish in the experience of being scared. FilmmakerIQ.com has released an extremely cool an informative video essay called "The History of Horror," and it dissects the history of horror, “from it's roots deep in Gothic literature, through B-movie status and director's proving grounds to ultimate respectability as an important filmmaking genre.”
If you aren't in a place where you can watch the video, they have the whole thing written up in an article here for you to read. It’s broken up into segments that include “Roots of Horror,” “Horror in the Silent Era,” “German Expressionism,” “Horror Films Learn to Scream,” “Mutated Monster Mash,” “Psychology, Sex and Gore,” “Independent Horror and the Slasher,” and “The 90s and Modern Horror.” This is definitely worth your time.
"There’s something about horror films that can transcend national and cultural boundaries. As the digital democratization of filmmaking continues horror will be a genre that can delight or terrify people no matter where they are from or what language they speak. This is because horror works on us differently than other genres- a topic I’ll explore in the next video on the psychology of horror. But as we’ve seen in this detailed but no way exhaustive survey of the history horror, the next big scary movie can come from anywhere, no matter the budget, stars, or the country of origin. Horror is very much a director’s genre – All that matters is if can you make an audience shiver with fright? Go out there and make something scary."
I hope you check this out because it does a fantastic job taking us on a journey through the evolution of fear in film.