Beginning of Cinema 1920s | |
Le Manoir Du Diable (1896) (aka the devil’s castle): | First horror film |
vampire film (1922): | First vampire movie, black and white and no sound The audience then had to rely on the moving image as there was so sound |
The cabinet of Dr Calligari (Robert Weine 1919): | No sound, black and white The audience then had to rely on the moving image as there was so sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odCaLSKbu3o |
The first vampire film Nosferatu, A symphony of terror (1922): | No sound, black and white The audience then had to rely on the moving image as there was so sound |
Friday, 12 March 2010
Beginning of Cinema 1920s
1930s and 1940s and Horror Characters
1930s and 1940s and Horror Characters | |
True Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein eras: | Dark, gothic style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nfmh178L98 |
Best horror characters: | Frankenstein, Dracula, the mummy, the invisible man, and the wolf man |
Classic horror stars: | Hungarian matinee idol bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff |
1950s
1950s | |
The ghost in the invisible bikini (1966): | Sensational, sex appeal, provocative, males are seen negatively for e.g. evil and sinister looking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tm0D5eC-w |
I was a teenage Frankenstein (1957): | Female seems to the victim, tone wad melodramatic and exaggerated, more gory using the colour red |
The tingle (1959): | Random seats in audience started vibrating |
After math of world war 2 (1945 - 1957): | Science fiction grew, popularity of science fiction |
Invasion of body snatchers (1956): | Famous Science Fiction thrillers based on small town doctor who becomes aware that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates, one example of gore, dialogue or voice over suggesting horror http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-jzblCbsuA |
1950s - 1970s
1950s-1970s | |
The horror of Dracula (1958): | Attractive, sex appeal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUlClqrTjA |
Monday, 1 March 2010
1960s Famous Horror Films
1960s Famous horror films: | |
The village of the damned (1960): | Blond hair and glowing eyed children seem to have powers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WzcW9haPto |
Rose mary’s baby (1968): | Struggle of young pregnant women against witches and forces of the devil and later delivers a devils child http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPyEsObI1M |
Psycho (1960): | Black and white, complex, Oedipal themes, schizophrenia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG3-GlvKPcg |
The birds (1963): | Invasion of coastal town where locals suffer from many bird attacks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uELFbRBEvw |