Horror films are designed to frighten and panic, to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrible end, impressive. Horror films of the early Gothic period - which means that they usually creepy old manor houses, castles were created, places dark and gloomy.
The main character of these films were "unknown" people, supernatural like vampires, demons, ghosts, monsters, demons, evil spirits, werewolves in the unseen presence of evil. The first horror film, only two minutes from the French filmmaker Georges Méliès "Castillo del Diablo (The Devil's Manor) (1896), which led some elements of the latest movies on vampires.
The most influential of the early films was "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Doctor Cligari) (1919) classic silent German expressionist history. In the spring of 1900, the German film The Golem, the first horror movie with themes that success had. In the early 1930s, Universal Studios has created a modern genre and brought to the screen in blockbuster movies like "Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy."
In the late 50s horror films, a category where the technical side of film making has become cheaper. Early 60s saw the release of two films that the gap between subject and viewer. One of them was "Peeping Tom" and the other "Psycho" was two movies and do not use human monsters rather than supernatural to scare the public.
"The Exorcist" (1973) broke all records for a horror film based on the 1975 "Jaws" became the highest grossing film in history. Horror films shot in self-mocking irony and downright parody in the 1990s as teenagers in Scream often referred to the history of horror movies.
There is no doubt that horror films are socially and morally irresponsible, and even a few people to affect to imitate the brutal methods of murder shown on the screen.
In any event, horror films have the opposite effect on normal people - sick minds will commit crimes anyway. When you see horror movies where our secret fears, share them with other fans and the elimination of terror before her.
