The History of Horror
 

I am writing a paper on the history of horror for my English Comp class, and I was wondering if you guys had any good books, documentaries, websites, etc. that might help. Anything you guys could offer I would appreciate.

Thanks!

Laurie

I did this for my final grade in World History ^-^;;. You really don't need anything in particular. Google horror history and you'll get more than enough. Take my word on it, pick your search engine and the paper will do itself.

That's good to hear. I guess that's true when you write what you love. :D

One word. Nosferatu. :D

Yes, Nosferatu - First Vampire movie
Der Golum - First Frankenstein's monster movie

Just don't you forget Asian horror. Ichi the Killer. Revloutiony for its violence ^-^.

thomas edison's frankenstein 1910
der golum 1914 & 1920

NOOOOOOOO!!!

Do not listen, Lostwy! The first Vampire movie [And 1st horror movie overall] was made by George Melies in 1896, it was 2 minutes long and was called Le Manoir du Diable, or The Devil's Castle in english. There may have been horror movies before this, but this is generally accepted as the 1st

Thomas Edison's Frankenstein was like fifteen minutes long or something. Kinda like my movies to have a beginning, plot development, then a conclusion. That was more of a 'let's see if this works' screen test than a movie to me though it probably was pretty important.

edit for the Nosferatu thing - I still don't consider something that's less than at least half an hour, no matter how old it is a movie.

Nosferatu was much more popular, known, and influential on horror history. It was like the first landmark.

True. But it still wasnt the 1st.:p

I never once said it was. I said "One word. Nosferatu.", meaning Nosferatu had a large influence on horror history. I never said "Nosferatu wa sthe first horror movie."

You certainly didnt...but Shade did. I wasnt arguing with you, I was just stating that Shade had his/her info mixed up.

Hey, different people have different opinions of where horror got its start. You go to twenty different websites and you're going to see twenty different sets of opinions on what constitutes a movie. And I never said Nosferatu was the first horror movie period. If you want to get technical "The Bewitched Inn" by Melies was the first horror "movie" of all. I say that because I don't know of one earlier and I still don't much like calling anything so short a movie >.>;;. And I'm a her .

you could also have different opinions about what the first Tom Cruise film is too but the fact of the matter is that it was Endless Love in '81.

If she/he is doing a paper on the history of horror then she/he should have their facts straight so she/he can write a creditble paper.

You did say that Nosferatu was the 1st vampire movie, which it definatly wasnt.

It's cool, I was just saying...

Yes I did but I also said I considered a horror movie to be at least over half an hour.

You guys are like school children. And by the way, the first actual horror movie was "Shadey hollows" by Jeffry mika 1894

nuh-uh...you are...

Dont forget Bloodfeast - Circa 1968. Was the first real "gore" movie.

Im rubber and your glue, what bounces off of me stick to you.

Books
 

Check out a thread (that's probably way down at the bottom as its been dormant for awhile) about BEST BOOKS ON HORROR - a bunch of people gave great suggestions of books about horror films they'd enjoyed. The Stephen King book, Danse Macabre, came up as did David Sklar's Monster Show, and Kendall Phillips's Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture. But there were a ton of great books that would help for a term paper.
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