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//Horror films//. (2011, October 11). Retrieved from http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms.html

("Horror films," 2011)

__**15 Facts:**__ ** (PAGE 1) **


 * 1) ** Horror films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. **
 * 2) Horror films are ** also known as chillers, scary movies, spookfests, and the macabre **
 * 3) Whatever ** dark, primitive, and revolting traits that ** simultaneously ** attract and repel us are featured in the horror genre **.
 * 4) Horror films are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens.
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 * 1) In the ** early 1930s **, ** Hollywood ** (Universal Studios, in particular) ** was beginning to experiment **** with ** iconic monster ** films ** , and it was only a matter of time before the first feature-length 'walking dead' film appeared
 * 2) The Cycle of 50's Horror Films: ** mid-1930s to the late 1950s were B-grade movies, inferior sequels, or atrocious low-budget gimmick films. **
 * 3) A few American-made monster/horror films of the time, however, effectively capitalized on terrorizing threats that included extraterrestrial powers or space invaders
 * 4) ** Horror films branched out in all different directions in the 1960s **
 * 5) Directors began to frankly portray horror in ordinary circumstances and seemingly-innocent settings.
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 * 1) In ** 1968 **, the ** MPAA created a new rating system ** with ** G, M, R, and X ** ratings, in part ** as a response to the subversive, violent themes of horror films. **
 * 2) In the ** 1970s, nightmarish horror and terror lurked everywhere. **
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 * 1) Many of the more ** successful horror films ** spawned inferior, low-budget, sickening // slasher //, 'schlock' or 'splatter' films in the ** 80s (and 90s) **.
 * 2) ** Most ** of these ** sequels or imitators were exploitative and featured shock, gory violence, graphic horror, 'teens in peril,' computer-generated special effects and makeup, and usually a homicidal male psycho who committed a progressive string of gruesome murders on female victims ** ( where __brutal killing/slashing/hacking metaphorically substituted for a rape__ )
 * 3) Many of these films told tales of a ** vengeful murderer motivated by some past misdeed or sexual perversity. **
 * 4) In the latter half of the decade, ** Hollywood studios realized that they could leverage the popularity of social networking sites (such as **// Facebook //** and **// Twitter //** ) to market films **, encourage positive word-of-mouth, raise awareness, and stimulate ticket sales, by grassroots Internet campaigns and promotions.