Genre Conventions for Final Project
For my final project, my group is planning on creating a horror film. The horror genre tends to do very well in the box office. It is one of the best-selling genres to this day. The horror genre consists of many common themes. These include children, nightmares, death, fear, the supernatural, and zombies/unknown creatures. The horror genre in literature dates back to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, where horror stories explored themes related to death, demons, evil spirits, and the afterlife. This later transitioned into the film industry. The late 1890s is when the first few horror films started to appear. " The first depictions of the supernatural on-screen appeared in several of the short silent films created by the French pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès in the late 1890s. The best known of these early supernatural-based works is the 3-minute short film Le Manoir du Diable (1896), known in English as both "The Haunted Castle" and "The House of the Devil". ...
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