Conventions of genre

Views of Horror movies from the 1930s-1980s

First ever moving camera - The arrival of a train at La Ciotat (France)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk

1930s-

• Black and white
• American film versions of Dracula (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nfmh178L98 ) and Frankenstein ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKyiXjyVsfw)
• Filming started to improve

1940s

• End of the war
• Cold war beginning
• Nuclear bombs
• Destruction made by the bombs: people dieing, debry
• Children born with deformities subject to the radiation
• The Russain badies vs the Americans concept was made
• Fighting for Alaska
• Body snatchers

1950s

• Body horror- Human Centipede
• 'Teenage' term was used
• Recording equipment was introduced 'Rock 'n' Roll'
• Teens: rebels, cinema, horror, couples, 'jump into arms'
• Smellavision
• Buzzers in the seats
• Drive in cinemas
• Cheap horror movies- teenage market

Colour was introduced onto screens therefore blood and gore was used alot because it looks good on camera between 1950s-1960s
1960s

• Psycho
• female protagonist
• Alfred Hitchcock
• 'Peeping Tom'
• Photography
• Print easily and cheapily
• The pill which encourage sexual behaviour was introduced
• Women had control over there bodies
• Abortion law was changed
• Women gained more power
• Not having to travel with a man
• Many women were filmed being killed in movies
• If a women drank or was promiscious they usually were killed

1970s

• Best decade for horror films
• Halloween, The Omen, Exorcist, Black Christmas
• Vietnam War
• News real life footage from Vietnam of the WAR
• Photographs of the soldiers, attacks and children
• Was all faught on the ground bombs and slaughter and torture
• People were killed, burned and slaughtered
• Napalm- Chemicals
• 'Apocolypse Now'

1980s

• Beautiful looking women
• solid
• 'Nightmare on Elm Street'
• Corruption to children
• Children look bad: 'Omen'
• 'Chucky'
• Re-makes