‘WAVES’ OF HORRORTHROUGHOUT THE YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN MANY TRENDS OF HORROR WHICH PROVIDE THE PLOT BASIS OR THEMES FOR THE HORROR FILMS AT THAT TIME.

193OS

The very first horror films were based on traditional gothic horror stories and this trend lasted for a long time.Dracula 1931 Frankenstein 1931The Mummy 1932

1st WAVE

LATE 70S – 80S

During these decades there was a huge trend in slasher films after John Carpenter’s Halloween, towards the mid 80s this trend became tiring due to it’s many clichés and so it became less popular/ profitable.Halloween 1978Friday the 13th 1980

2nd WAVE

90S

After the release of Wes Raven’s Scream in 1996, teen horror or teen slashers came back into the cinema’s and as Scream was so successful other directors started to create similar films such as..I Know What You Did Last Summer 1997

3rd WAVE

LATE 90S

Writers started to include more scare factors in their films as opposed to gore. There was an increase in ghost horrorThe Sixth Sense 1999The Blair Witch Project 1999

4 th WAVE

MID 00S

There was a huge increase in torture and violent movies created to shock the audience, these contain sadistic violence.Saw 2004Hostel 2005

5th WAVE

00S

At the start of the century, along with the gore/ violent films there were a lot of Asian horror remakes with the same type of image throughout. Ringu 1998 = the Ring 2002Ju-on 2002 = the Grudge 2004A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 = the Uninvited 2009

6th WAVE

NOWNowadays there has been a return to more atmospheric, ominous horror films and ghost films. However in addition to this there have also been a lot of extremely disturbing movies which were created purely to shock the somewhat desensitised audience.Mama InsidiousThe Woman in BlackThe Human Centipede

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