The history of our genre- Horror/Thriller

A Horror film is a film that wants to make the audience feel fear, horror and terror. Their plots normally involve themes of the supernatural or a main murderer of criminal. In history the early horror movies were mainly based on classic books of the same genre for example Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and Phantom of the Opera. However mordern horror films mostly involve ideas preying on the insecurities of life now for example serial killers and terrorists. Horror films have been criticized for including graphic violence, paticularly in mordern day for example "Hostel 1+2" and "Saw". Nonetheless, the horror genre is still on of the most popular genres to date with many respected and well-known directors for example; Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski and Stanley Kubrick.Richard Donner, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Romero have made forays into the genre. Some horror films also incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, mockumentary, black comedy, and thrillers into the films.