A Short History of the Horror Film (1890s - 2010s)

The Horror movie has been one of the most popular genres in all of cinema for over the last 100 years. it explores the deepest fears of our culture, forcing us to confront the problematic elements of our society. This video will be taking a decade by decade look at the major tropes of horror cinema, there cultural influences and there effect on the wider cinema landscape. we will journey from the first horror films in the late 1800's like The Haunted Castle by Georges Méliès and The Execution of The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots by William Heise, though classics like Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining in to modern horror like The Babadook and The Witch. Thanks for watching 100 years of cinema. Instead of looking at the history of one film each year from 1915, this time we are taking a general look at the history of horror, Starting from the very first horror movies in 1895, all the way to the present day. Cliplist: The Shining (1980) Alien (1979) Mystics in Bali (1981) Invasion of the body snatchers Ringu (1998) The execution of Mary queen of Scots (1895) Le Squelette joyeux (1897) The Manner of the devil (1896) The Haunted Castle (1897) The devil's convent (1897) The haunted curiosity shop (1901) Scrooge (1901) Faust and Mephistopheles (1903) The Red Specter (1907) Dante's Inferno (1911) The sealed Room (1909) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912) Frankenstein (1910) The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) Genuine (1920) Faust (1926) Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920 The Student of Prague (1913 film) Der Golem (1915) Nosferatu (1922) Der Golem: how he came in to the world (1920) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) The Man Who Laughed (1927) Dracula (1931) Frankenstein (1931) The Wolf Man (1941) The Mummy (1932 film) Silly Symphonies: The Skeleton Dance (1929) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) The Body Snatcher (1945) Cat People (1942) The Ghost Ship (1943) The Uninvited (1944) Them! (1954) Tarantula (1955) The War of the Worlds (1953) The Fly (1958) House of Wax (1953) The Tingler (1959) Macabre (1958) Horror of Dracula (1958) A Case for PC 49 (1951) The Quatermass Experiment (1955) The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) The Mummy (1959) The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (1974) Peeping Tom (1960) Psycho (1960) Night of The Living Dead (1968) Rosemary's Baby (1968) The Exorcist (1973) The Omen (1976) The Amityville Horror (1979) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Halloween (1978) Jaws (1975) Grizzly (1976) Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976) Inferno (1980) Carrie (1976) Shivers (1975) The Thing (1982) I drink your blood (1970) Last house on the left (1972) Friday the 13th (1980) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Friday the 13th Part III (1982) Halloween II (1981) The Evil Dead (1981) Cannibal Holocaust (1980) The Burning (1981) Scream (1996) New Nightmare (1994) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Paranormal Activity (2007) Let The Right one in (2008) Saw VI (2009) Hostel: Part II (2007) The Cabin in the Woods (2012) The Babadook (2014) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) SUPPORT THE SHOW: www.patreon.com/onehundredyearsofcinema TWITTER: twitter.com/100yearscinema