Horror films are one of the oldest movie crazes and genres going back over a 100 years ago. warped thoughts and vivid imaginations have always tended to trigger the minds warped thoughts to see ghosts in shadowy shapes and fear of the dark and its connotations....creating an emotional connection to the unknown and the improbable..Watching a horror film is particularly effective as it gives an opening into that scary world, into an outlet for the sense of fear and horror.. without actually being in danger. There is a heightened thrill factor associated with watching horror movies, and they allow through imagery horror ideas to come alive like a book or novel would never depict. The first horror movie, only about two minutes long, was made by imaginative French filmmaker Georges Melies, titled Le Manoir Du Diable (1896, Fr.) (aka The Devil's Castle/The Haunted Castle) -
Oscar Wilde's 1890 Faustian tale (*Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures*) The Picture of Dorian Gray and H.G. Wells' 1896 story of The Island of Dr. Moreau were adapted into early film versions. In many ways, the expressionistic German silent cinema led the world in films of horror and the supernatural, and established its cinematic vocabulary and style.
Many religions, myths, folk-tales and cults expressed the idea of blood connoting life. Vampires began to emerge in popular fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries, during which time Dracula was written.
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