In the mid

1700s horror
entered
society
through the
image of dark
paintings
containing
images of
demons.

1700s

Frankenstein lead
to many ghost
stories during the
late 1800s being
published.

In 1815
Mary
Shelley
wrote the
first gothic
horror
masterpiece
known as

Dracula was
used as the
inspiration
for the
famous
German
horror film
Nosferatu

In 1897 Bram
Stoker
published his
infamous
gothic vampire
story Dracula.
After this
horror became
a genre in its
own right.

In the
1950s
more sci-fi
twist films
such as
invasion
of the
body

In the 1930s
the film
versions of
Dracula and
Frankenstein
were created.
Not long after
these films
were made
the genre
faded out
with the on
set of World
War 2 due to

Before the
1970s
horror died
out but
was
revived
with a
demonic
twist. With
films such

In the
1960s
more
physiol
ogical
horror
and
slasher
film
Psycho
were
release
d.

In the 1980s
video
nasties
came about
which were
films based
of gore.

In 1978 John
Carpenters
Halloween
brought around
the birth of
teen slasher.

This lead to more

teen slasher films
such as I know
what you did last
summer. Until the
genre exhausted
itself again and
parodys came
about like Scary
movie 1-3 and
many more. Now
horrors are more
based around
demonic

In the
1990s the
genre
came back
to life with
the horror
scream

Now