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A film poster for Cat People (1942), the first film made by producer Val Lewton that created a new style of horror film. After the success of Son of Frankenstein (1939), Universal's horror films received what author Rick Worland of The Horror Film called "a second wind" and horror films continued to be produced at a feverish pace into the mid ...
The Dictionary of Film Studies defines the horror film as representing “disturbing and dark subject matter, seeking to elicit responses of fear, terror, disgust, shock, suspense, and, of course, horror from their viewers.” [2] In the chapter The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s from Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (2002), film critic Robin Wood declared that the commonality between ...
Influential horror writers of the early 20th century made inroads in these mediums. Particularly, the venerated horror author H. P. Lovecraft, and his enduring Cthulhu Mythos transformed and popularized the genre of cosmic horror, and M. R. James is credited with redefining the ghost story in that era. [21] The serial murderer became a ...
This is a list of lists of horror films. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between horror and other genres (including action , thriller , and science fiction films ). By decade
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The first film has been credited with revitalizing the horror genre in the late 1990s by combining a traditional slasher film with humor, characters aware of horror film cliches and a clever plot. It was one of the highest-grossing films of 1996 and became the highest-grossing slasher film in the world, an honor it held until it was surpassed ...
Since then, my horror movie knowledge has evolved—and frankly, Freddy could learn a thing or two from his peers. The genre is full of creative villains who hunt their prey with the most twisted ...
The authors of 'The Black Guy Dies First' discuss horror's problematic past and bright future.