How The Great Depression Reflects The Evolution Of Horror

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The horror genre of film captives the frightfulness of individual fear, horror is the only genre that is meant captive the terror of the audience. The horror- the genre has been around well over one hundred- years there has been an extension of different types of horror and how the audience perceives horror. Many would even argue that horror films often reflect the fear of society in that certain time period. The evolution of horror reflects the evolution of society’s fear. American in 1929 face the stock market crash-inducing The Great Depression. The economic crisis caused Americans endure something they never witness, Americans fear the unfamiliar atmosphere that The Great Depression created. The fear of the unfamiliar triggered the creation of Monster Movies in the 30s. In 1931 Dracula open in theaters, the first horror movie to be released during The Great Depression, it excelled what the audience at the time were custom to seeing. The character of Dracula is a vampire, although the concept of him being the vampire is not the aspect that makes him “unfamiliar”, it's that the …show more content…

In the film, Frankenstein's Monster befriended a young girl near a pond, both the girl and monster began to toss flowers at the pond. The Monster decided to toss the young girl, resulting in the death of the girl. The Monster didn’t have perception of a situation, he couldn’t deduce that tossing the young girl into the water would cause her to die, to him, it was like playing a game. Frankenstein's Monster was the first monster that parallels a monster, but wasn't a monster. Frankenstein's Monster is a sheep wearing the monster's clothing. The Frankenstein Monster is unfamiliar due to society deeming him to be evil because his appearance is terrifying, nevertheless, he doesn't have any qualities that make him villainous, his negative flaw is that he doesn't

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