Thursday, 5 January 2017

History of horror thriller genre

Thriller


Thriller is a very wide area of films, television programmes and story books. There is a very high amount of films, movies, programmes and books that are based on the thriller genre; however for a long time there has been and interest in merge to different genres to make a sub-genre; for example: horror thriller, psychological thriller and gangster thriller. The thriller genre contains many different elements to make it what it is. Thriller is known to have a various range of moods which can then cause the viewer to have a heightened emotional state such as suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, anxiety and fear.
the story of Little red riding hood written in 1697 was one of the early examples of a psycho stalker and a story that demonstrates the different heightened emotion stages. A fairy tale about a girl who goes to visit her very ill grandma to deliver some food, however a wolf that wants to eat the girl start to follow her. The wolf goes up to her to ask her where she is going and she tells the creator, little red riding hood keeps on coming on her way, whilst the wolf goes to the grandmas house to try and trick red riding hood and eat her.




Horror


Horror is a genre of film, that want to cause their audience and viewers to have mass emotional change and also to heighten anxiety and fear whilst watching. Inspired by books, poems and literature from authors like Bram stoker who wrote; "Count Dracula", and Mary Shelley who wrote "Frankenstein", horror films have existed for more than a century. This genre has the ability to over lap with other genre such as, sci-fi, supernatural and thriller.
The horror genre first appeared around the 18th century. The horror genre has ancient origins with roots in folklore and religious traditions, focusing on death, the after-life, evil, and supernatural. I.e. vampires and werewolves. Finally, also the principle of the thing embodied in the person, which appears in horror genre films, books and programmes.





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