History of horror and its genre 1960 and forward

In the beginning of 1960 the movie psycho was produced by Alfred Hitchcock and also includes the famous shower scene. This lead to people being afraid of taking showers and being in bathrooms, a big explosion of screaming movies was also consequence of the film. This develops into what’s called “the golden age of horror” and many famous horror movies was produced during this time.

1968 a movie called “the night of the living dead” and this was one of the first horror movies that also developed the original zombie figure. This was also the age of independent low budget films which this movie was and they therefore made a lot of money. There were no longer as much supernatural things influencing the monsters they wanted to create a more believable view. The director wanted to go overbroad with this movie which also gave a lot of gore scenes and children turning against there parents and so on. One thing that was rare about this movie was that this movie had an Afro-American as the main character, this was something new and also got people talking about the movie. The director for this movie was also George A. Romero which also made a lot of good and famous movies, he also produced “the land of the death” another zombie movie in 2005.

Later in 1970 the movie the “Texas chainsaw massacre” was produced and was also presented as a true story. There was a man named Ed Gain that was an American murder. It was told he made furniture’s out of his victim’s skin and this was what triggered the production of the movie. So the audience was now convincing that this was an event that had happened in real life which showed to be an effective way of scaring the audience. After this more famous and well known movies was produced such as “the exorcist” “the Oman” and “shivers” which all had a quite large audience and fans.

Later in 1978 the movie Halloween was produced and later developed into a classic horror movie with many different versions. It convinced its audience that this could be a true event and had a big hit especially in the United States. The movie was baste on the director John Carpenter own experience and feeling about Halloween. This was the new age of slasher movies and influence a lot of other movies that later was produced.