Research: history of horror 1971 - 1980

for me this has to be the best time period for the bases of horror films as i feel  the horror films which i enjoy in the current time would not be here unless it was for these horror films also these are the most scariest in my opinions because they started evolving greatly and basing their stories around true events also it is when people used ghosts and demons possessing was used to great effect. This is why i believe this was the most important decade when it comes to horror films. 

The Exorcist 1973

The exorcist is about a young girl who happens to get 

possessed by a demon and a exorcist tries to perform 

an exorcism on her. Many people found this film to be 

one of the scariest movies ever invented, The film was 

even banned and then re-released in 1985.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974

This films is about a group of adults 
whodecide to go and visit their
granddads house but on their journey 
they are stopped and then encounter a

family of cannibals and a psychopathic 
killer. For me this was one of the 
scariest films i watched as i watched it
when i was very young but also the
 methods and detail they showed when
 the killer would capture his victim was
 very scary

Jaws 1975

a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it. This is one of the first films where they show the viscous side of sharks making it scary as they are real.

The Omen 1976

is a film about a child who's is born at the same time of his mothers death. the child is then adopted and then named dDamien. consequently as he grows up a sequence of events that cause people to die and people have suspicious that Damien is the devils child.

                                                        Halloween 1978

A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets. series of murders commence as he tries to reunite himself with his sister the only one he loved and she does not recognize him.

 

 

The shining 1980

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.








Friday the 13th 1980
This was the start of the Jason films it is about a man who wheres a hockey masks slowly kills young people who are camping in the woods. for me these films are entertaining because there tend to be quite a few twists in it making it more surprising.