Assessment 3: bbfc// Genre Research.

 HISTORY OF HORROR – early history.

The first’s films of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by directors such as Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the most noticed being his 1896 "The House of the Devil" which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film. Another of his horror projects was 1898's La Caverne maudite (aka "The Cave of the Demons", literally "the accursed cave"). Japan made early forays into the horror genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei, both made in 1898. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein; thought lost for many years, film collector Alois Felix Dettlaff Sr. found a copy and had a 1993 rerelease.

The early 20th century brought more films for the horror genre including the first monster to appear in a full-length horror film, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who had appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, "Notre-Dame de Paris" (published in 1831). Films featuring Quasimodo included Alice Guy's Esmeralda (1906), The Hunchback (1909), The Love of a Hunchback (1910) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1911).

Many of the earliest feature length 'horror films' were created by German film makers in 1910s and 1920s, during the era of German Expressionist films. Many of these films would significantly influence later Hollywood films. Paul Wegener's The Golem (1915) with its Expressionist style. The era also produced the first vampire-themed feature, F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Early Hollywood dramas dabbled in horror themes, including versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Monster (1925) both starring Lon Chaney, S., the first horror movie star. Most famous role, however, was in The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

TARGET AUDIANCE

I would personally think that the target audience for horror film’s would stereotypically be teenage and older men, however due to modern times I would think our target audiance for horror would be teenagers and adults to their thirties, both men and women. This is due to the desensitization of the modern day and age; this means people have become desensitized to horror (not shocked anymore).

In the past horrors was the up and coming genre in the film industry because of its thrill’s. However nowadays due to desensitization the horror genre is still popular but not as big.

An eighteen certificate is you can show violence, sexual scenes.  Only suitable for adults because it may be harmful to anyone under the specific age ie drug use, sexual assault things that may harm the minds of the young. Not many limits with a eighteen.  We have chosen to make a eighteen certificate movie opening.

A fifteen certificate is you can show mild violence, there could be some use of strong language, nudity but not strong, with the horror genre strong violence is permitted unless it is sadistic or sexualized. You are more limited with a fifteen.

INSPIRING MOVIES-

The movie 'Scream' gave us the idea of the stalker from the first scene when the killer makes his first kill of the movie on the non-expecting girl.


The movie 'Sorority Row' also gave us the idea of a stalker - however this film gave us the idea of the drunk accident that happens, that haunts the spectators for ever.

This was done by Jonathan.