The development of horror genre overtime!

Overall development of horror genre! 


Horror films in the 1920's:
-This is the time where silent films was made and there was large focus on the imagery and the visual appearance on horror films making the audience more intrigued and made horror films visually realistic as there was no background music or audio to capture the audiences attention. Overall, horror films have significantly changed overtime, with no sound to sound  and even without sound in the 1920's horror films was still able to portray and conduct a narrative to entertain (uses of gratification theory). During this time, mise en scene was very effective such as the lighting  as it was used to distinguish between the good and bad characters (Binary opposition).

Horror films in the 1930's:
-In this time sound was introduced and the dreamlike imagery was made more modern. The music in the background was used to build tension and suspense (enigma) to the audience. The films started to focus on costume, hair and  full on heavy makeup to contribute to the theme of horror by focusing it on the genre of horror allot more. During this time there was still no colour so they had to focus on binary opposition though black and white to demonstrate the good vs evil characters in the film. When sound was introduced to the horror industry it gave horror films a whole new dimension where more hybrid and sub genres was introduced giving it a new outlook. 

Horror films in the 1940's
During this time the horror films had to focused on the intersession of  the horror market where horror film characters had peoples animistic peeking through. This then created a new aspect of the horror genre with escapism (uses of gratification theory) that the audience was able to attach to the supernatural features. Binary oppositions such as good vs bad portrays within the themes of horror film as the almost message seems to be revenge or murder or people getting possessed.  

Horror films in the 1960's
In the 1060's horror films brought in a different kind of horror called physio-graphic horror which gave a new sort of thrill to horror movies. Also during this time they was more open to open screen nudity, bloody violence, as well as other aspects that challenged the social morals of society.From the 1960's films took an edge from physiography horror where it illustrated the scene of belief and religion was introduced where they free the person of the possessed.The themes of horror genre give off suspense which represents the theory of enigma.

Horror films in the 1980's
In the 1980's the special effects started to take more importance when filming the movie with violent and gory scenes in the movies. Sound effects played a huge part in capturing the audiences attention (Theory of enigma). Also technical advances in the field such as liquid foam latex meant human frame could be distorted into a whole new dimension on screen and realistic close ups. The appearance of wolves in horror films also became very dominant and a convention of horror as wolves was seen as dangerous.

Horror films in the 2000s
This is the century where public opinions of horror changed as films had to become more scary by changing the type of villains such as monsters had to be changed and altered to fit in the modern society. Moreover, in the past the horror films  showed a dramatic focus on the dramatic/evil characters where the audience was able to identify who was the clear villain, however, nowadays horror film tend to illustrate hidden villains where the villains end up to be the one that was not expected.