Horror Films: Why Do Some People Love Being Scared... Horror is a film genre that's been popular since nearly the start of cinema. The first documented film is 'Le Manoir du diable' (The Haunted Castle / 1896), a short by French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès. Of course horror, as tales in art and literature, has been fascinating and frightening humans since ancient times and has its origins in lore and traditions. The fundamental threat in such stories is generally based on the larger fears of a
Horror films got their start in 1896 with the two-minute short, Le manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle), shown on Christmas Eve, in Paris. But it was not until 1906, with the remake of Notre-Dame de Paris, Esmeralda, did the genre spilt into subgenres. Esmeralda refined the ‘freak shows’ that previous horror films had begun to resemble. Films like these paved the way for people like Brian De Palma, Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen King, John Carpenter, Steven Spielberg, and his composer, John Williams
Hes most famous for La Voyage Dans la Lune (1902) a sci-fi film that follows the surreal journey of astronomers on their way to the moon. Along with the horror short Le Manoir du Diable (1898). Being the creator of special effects as we see them today, he could produce comical and fantastical illusions on screen. Over his life time he made over 400s films, but was forced out of the industry as it grew. Non-the less he is
independent, and problem. Subgenres of horror films include comedy-horror, teen-horror, monster-horror, slasher, supernatural-horror, and zombie-horror. The first ever horror film was released in 1898 by the French filmmaker George Mellies, Le Manoir Du Diable also known as The Devil’s Castle/The Haunted Castle, was about two minutes long.
aims to create a sense of fear, panic, alarm, and dread for the audience.The first depictions of supernatural events appeared in several of the silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the best known being Le Manoir du Diable or The House of the Devil, which is sometimes credited as being