First+Notable+Horror+Films

=**The History of Horror Films**=

**Before the invention of film, the horror genre existed in novels, some of which are still well known to this day:**

 * ====**Frankenstein** (1818) by Mary Shelley====
 * ====**The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde** (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson====
 * ====**Dracula** (1897) by Bram Stoker====

====**The horror film genre first began in the late 1890’s with French-made silent shorts such as //The Cave Of The Unholy One,// and //The House Of The Devil// directed by Georges Méliès, which is thought to be the first horror and vampire movie ever made.**====
 * ====**Le Manoir du Diable** **(The House of the Devil)** (1896) Directed by Georges Méliès====
 * [[image:http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/pub-dom/imgs/Le-Manoir-du-Diable.jpg width="220" height="286"]]

Some more examples of the first silent horror films are:
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 * ====**Frankenstein** (1910) Directed by J. Searle Dawley====
 * [[image:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G-008K9L0s0/S9xioN5yOiI/AAAAAAAAEj4/iSuhxEQkMq0/s1600/frankenstein1.jpg width="215" height="317"]]
 * **The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari** (1919) Directed by Robert Wiene
 * [[image:http://www.leninimports.com/dr_caligari_cabinet_shop_dvd_5.jpg width="332" height="332"]]
 * ====**Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde** (1920) Directed by John S. Robertson====
 * [[image:http://cineclubecovilha.com/image/screen/John-Barrymore--Dr-Jekyll-And-Mr-Hyde-1920-DVDRip-SiRiUs-sHaRe.jpg width="224" height="271"]]
 * ====**The Golem** (1920) Directed by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese====
 * [[image:http://www.cultmoviez.com/G/slides/POSTER%20-%20THE%20GOLEM%20%281920%29.jpg width="212" height="264"]]
 * ====**Nosferatu** (1922) Directed by F. W. Murnau **(Also the first well-recognized vampire movie.)** ====
 * ==== [[image:http://www.gorestruly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/NosferatuPoster.jpg width="218" height="307"]] media type="youtube" key="ZxlJxDr26mM" height="315" width="420"====
 * ====**The Phantom of the Opera** (1925) Directed by Rupert Julian====
 * ====[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_%281925_film%29.jpg width="220" height="346"]]====

**In the 1930's the first horror movies with sound came out, and that's when the genre began to take hold in America. Some examples are:**

 * **Dracula** (1931) Directed by Tod Browning **(First time a vampire was depicted as being physically __attractive__ in the movies, which was very different from the hideous creature in Nosferatu.)**
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Dracula1931poster.jpg width="232" height="351"]]
 * **The Mummy** (1932) Directed by Karl Freund
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Mummy_32.jpg/220px-Mummy_32.jpg width="235" height="360"]]
 * **Bride of Frankenstein** (1935) Directed by James Whale
 * [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v8pQuSA3S0A/TtywxxrVPvI/AAAAAAAABIE/84EqxB5dCYs/s1600/03-Bride_of_frankenstein.jpg width="237" height="310"]]


 * These first horror movies from the early 1900's served as a memorable beginning for the horror __genre__ in the movie industry. These iconic films and storylines were such a huge success in their day, that even now, almost 100 years later, many of us still recognize them. Thanks to these great movies, the horror film genre has survived and grown into the hugely successful industry that it is today.**

Project Ideas: -horror film -silent black & white horror film -macro photography -nature photography -landscape photography

Camera Angles: -Bird's-Eye view -High Angle -Eye Level -Low Angle -Oblique/Canted Angle

Shot Lengths: -Extreme long shot -Long Shot -Medium Shot -Close-Up -Extreme Close-Up

Types of Lighting: -Natural -Side Lighting -Back Lighting -Rim Lighting -Ambient Light -Soft or Diffuse Light -Hard Light -Spotlight -Artificial Lighting -Various Combinations of Lighting

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This iconic photograph was taken on Christmas Eve in 1968 by William Anders, and astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon. Since its publication, this one photograph has forever changed the way people see themselves, and planet Earth in the Universe. The year this photo was taken was a somewhat difficult one for the US due to the assassinations of the leader of the African-American civil rights movement, Reverend Martin Luthor King Jr., and politician and civil rights activist, Robert F. Kennedy (younger brother to John F. Kennedy), as well as the continuation of the __Vietnam War__. This photograph changed the world because it made people realize just how small they all were in the grand scope of the Universe, and just how fragile people, and the Earth really are, and therefore greatly expanded humanity's self-perception. This photograph of Anne Frank was taken by an unknown photographer in 1941 during the Holocaust. Anne Frank was an ordinary Jewish girl living in __Amsterdam__ with her mother, father, an older sister, who was forced to take reffuge in a small attic for 2 years until being captured by the Nazis in 1944 and sent to the Bergen-Belsen camp where she tragically died of typhus only a month before the camp was released. During those 2 years in the attick, Anne kept a diary of her experiences and hopes which is now renound for providing insight into the lives of the victims of the Holocaust. This photograph changed the world because it gave the diary and the victims of the Holocaust a face, which made people realize that the victims of the Nazis were innocent people just like anybody else, which made the reality of the Holocaust that much more horrifying.
 * Earthrise 1968**
 * Anne Frank 1941**


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