Friday, 12 March 2010

Beginning of Cinema 1920s

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAyLZjNJ24k

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