Europe is the hometown of movies and the birthplace of horror movies. Today, an important early horror film is "A Man Without a Soul" (originally meaning "A Living Man"), which was performed and directed by the famous German stage actor Paul Wegner in 19 16. It was the first influential horror film. In 19 19, Ufa's Doctor Calgary's Cabin caused a sensation, and then some excellent films, such as Vampire and Wax, came out one after another, making the horror film one of the earliest films to establish its style.
The German expressionist horror film "Dr. Carrigari's Cabin" from 65438 to 0920 received mixed reviews at that time, but it greatly inspired German films to emphasize imagination and fear. Under its influence, the most famous film is Nosferatu by Mona 1922, which is also adapted from Stoke's novel Drakula.
It is under the influence of Germany that American horror movies really rise. The most famous American horror films in the silent film era are 1920' s Dr. Jack and Mr. Hyde and 1925' s Phantom of the Opera House.
193 1 Two classic horror films first caught the audience's eye: Drakula by Browning and Frankenstein adapted by James Wheeler from mary shelley's novel.
With the success of these two films, horror films began to pour out on the assembly line of Universal Pictures. Among them, the most famous films are Mummy (1932), Hollow Man, The Old Black House, Deformed Man (1932), Golden Steel (1933) and The Bride of Frankenstein (a Frankenstein series). 193 1 year appeared the classic works of so-called horror films: vampire, Frankenstein, ghost doctor. 1936, Cameron menzies filmed the future world, describing the sudden changes that will take place on the earth in one hundred years. At the same time, Britain also filmed an American rich man carrying an old castle and his ghost to the other side of the ocean in Ghost Westbound (1936).
In the 1940s, although horror films began to be filmed as low-cost B-rated films, many films of this genre still made impressive achievements. Universal Pictures once developed the "animal horror film" Werewolf (194 1), which haunts vampires at night. Among them, Catman (1942) and My i walked with a zombie (1943) were especially well received by the audience and film critics.
In 1950s, with the nuclear threat and the doctrine of "A Chinese Odyssey" spreading the shadow of "* * * infiltrating capitalism", horror films were temporarily separated from all kinds of supernatural ghosts and monsters in the early days, but combined with sci-fi films with all kinds of "nuclear monsters" or whispers in outer space as the core images, constantly rendering and romanticizing the myth of the so-called "threat from the East". Among the former, there are Gozla series in Japan (1955), them in the United States (1953) and the monster of Black Lake (1956). The latter is represented by human invaders (1954). At the same time, there are color horror films full of violence and pornography in Britain. Frankenstein's curse (1957), Drakula's fear (1958), etc.
In 1960s, Hitchcock's Psychopaths began to be released, which marked a major turning point in horror films. It has changed from ghosts, ghosts, crazy scientists and foreign bodies in the alien world to a horror film that "writes people"; There is also a horror/disaster film "Birds".
1973 william friedkin's "The Exorcist" set a good example for the horror films in 1970s and 1980s. This horror film, which obviously returned to the traditional "monster", inspired a series of witchcraft monster movies such as The Omen series (1976), Carrie the Witch (1976) and The Exorcist sequel.
The classic work that set off a wave of horror movies in France in 1960s and 1970s should be Les Yeux Sans Visage, 1960 (or 1959) directed by georges franju; ; "Buio Omega" and so on.
Since 1980s, with the increasing commercial flavor of contemporary movies, horror movies have set off waves of upsurge on Hollywood screen. Women who have always been regarded as "different" in Hollywood movies bear the brunt, and a large number of horror films with the theme of "female threat" flood the screen, such as De Palma's Cross-dressing Killing (1980) and Paul Leder's Catman (1982), all based on/kloc-. The "victims" of the following horror films are teenagers and even children. With the release of films such as "Halloween" series and "Lost Children", the "juvenile problem" has finally been shaped into a social horror. It is interspersed with all kinds of "foreign bodies" from space or crazy scientists. For example, kellenberger's Fly 1 2 and Scott's Alien. In recent years, on the one hand, traditional horror images such as "vampire" and "Frankenstein" have been re-screened, and most of them are directed by famous directors. For example, Coppola's Shadow of the Vampire is 400 years (1992), neil jordan's Night Visit to Vampires (1994) and mary shelley's Frankenstein (1994). One by one, they flaunt their loyalty to the original work and retell the old horror stories in the form of modern movies, which makes people feel that the world seems to be just going through another round of reincarnation;
On the other hand, a lot of real violence and evil have become a new selling point in Hollywood after being packaged into already familiar horror films.
These movies, from The Silence of the Lambs, who shows a serial killer who is obsessed with skinning people, to The Cradle of Hands, which focuses on "threats in the living room", have shocked the audience of the dangers in real life. In 1996, the scream released by Milan Max, a large independent production company, was eclipsed by the crazy killing of abnormal serial killings. This movie set the highest box office record of horror movies in history-1100 million dollars. This greatly inspired the boss of Max Company and almost turned himself into a "serial killer"-the film has been created for three episodes. There is also "Ghost made last summer 1 2".
Macedonian director Mancevski, who won the Palme d 'Or for Dawn in Shanghai, also came to Hollywood to shoot a horror film "The Devil Officer" (also known as "Greed"), which showed a group of American soldiers trapped in the ice and snow turned into cannibals.
In western ghost films, vampires can be called "the king of ghosts", and the most classic is a vampire named Count Delacourt Le. The vampire's business cards are fright night (1985) and Dracula by Branstock (1992).
The most active European country making horror films is Spain, such as 1997' s "Unusual Love", Alessandro Amanba's "Breaking Your Eyes", and 1999' s Spanish film "Dead Baby" achieved quite shocking results with excellent artistry, sound and bold plot.
Mexican culture is influenced by both Spanish and American cultures. 200 1 Quelmo Deltoro, an excellent horror film director, was one of the best horror films of the year, combining advanced American technology, exquisite European pictures, music, ways of creating psychological horror atmosphere and magical colors of South America.
Asian horror films have a long history, especially in Hong Kong. I'll just make some brief introductions here: Hong Kong horror movies: Wesley Old Cat, Butterfly Change, Intimidation, Weird Talk Association, Nightmare List, Midnight 1 p.m., Miss meets a ghost, July 14, single eye. Beautiful corpse, red lips, worshipping the wrong god, surfing the internet in the middle of the night, mowing by my brother, sleeping badly (2002), ghost in my left eye (2002), ghost in my office (2002), night (2002), night.
The rise of Korean movies is an indisputable fact, and horror movies are also a part that cannot be ignored. 200 1 South Korea's cutting-edge director Yin Zhongcan released the horror film Creep, as well as some well-received and influential films such as Mobile Phone, Ghost Curse A, Death Recording, The Return of the Magic Record, Strange Tales of the Female High School, Dead Classroom, Ghost Love and Huaqiang Red Lotus.
As a big Asian film country, Japan not only enjoys a high reputation in the international film industry, but also has excellent horror films. Besides the well-known Ghost at Midnight series, there are National subjugation, Hypnosis, Anzishan, Circuit, Ghost Water, Ghost Baby Flower, Qian Xian, Curse 1 2, Winter Terror and so on.
Thai horror movie is good, crocodile witch, ghost wife.
To be fair, a large number of high-tech applications in American horror films often bring only exciting visual wonders to the audience, but the horror effect is not strong enough. Of course, as the center of the world film industry, the United States is constantly attracting talents from all over the world and constantly creating some horror films that deviate from the "American color." In 2000, Indian director Nate Shamalan's first film in Hollywood (psychological horror film), The Sixth Sense, swept the American box office with a score of $280 million. In 200 1 year, the film Scare on the Island, directed by Spanish director Alejandro Nabal, had a strong European psychological horror film color and became one of the most successful films of that year. In 2002, Nate Shamalan's horror film "Signs of Heaven" once again created a box office myth. The American version of the Japanese horror film "Midnight Bell" was released in the United States. At the same time, I bought the copyright of the Hong Kong horror film Hell.
Common story types of horror movies
(1) Science fiction and horror. The most typical representative is the alien series. In addition, there are other things, such as aliens 1 2, black hole surface, invasion of brain cells, dream catchers, Resident Evil and dream catchers, which are all adapted from the game.
(2) ghosts. This kind of horror film accounts for the largest proportion. Whether it is a monster, an evil spirit, or any horrible outer space creature, it can belong to it. The famous ones are Kubrick's The Shining (known as the scariest horror film in history), The Exorcist, Devil's Baby, People Playing with Ghosts, The Living, Cosmic Monty, The Night of a Promethean, Ghost Chaser, Rubik's Cube, Ghost Eating and Mystery Story. The Bride of Chu Qi series, Dream Street series, Night Interview with Vampires (this year's sequel, The Vampire Queen, is very sadistic), Sleepless Valley, Death Comes 1, 2, Ghost Invasion, Crisis, 13 Ghost, and
(3) Life variation horror film. For example, birds, jumping to death, flies, sugar men, piranhas, dead bodies crossing the line, anacondas, crocodiles in prehistoric times, extreme cold, hot water, eight-legged monsters, and 28 days of surprise attack.
(4) Serial pervert killer: The famous Halloween series can be photographed from 1978 in the eighth episode of this year, Halloween Scare-knife light reappearance, portraits of serial killers in texas chainsaw massacre, Texas: Henry, Ten Days Danger, Stepfather and Screaming.
Finally, it introduces the British horror film The Cradle of Fear.
Look, the title alone is numb. Also hung up two scary names, Hypnotic Terminator and Living Man. The plot of the film is a bit messy, but the dazzling lotus flower has shaken people's eyes and the plot is too busy to take care of. It is no exaggeration to describe this film as violent, bloody, pornographic and abnormal. The most abnormal plot is that women lick men's disabled thighs and limbs before sex, and it is a close-up, which is simply outrageous. Its horror comes from blood, and the killing scenes are all shot in a realistic way, and blood splashes all over your face. China will never show this film, because after the film is cut, it has no plot.