34 Facts About Teen horror

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Cinematic techniques used in Teen horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience.

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From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, Teen horror only became a codified genre after the release of Dracula .

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Newman discussed the genre in British Film Institute's Companion to Horror where he noted that Horror films in the 1930s were easy to identify, but following that decade "the more blurred distinctions become, and Teen horror becomes less like a discrete genre than an effect which can be deployed within any number of narrative settings or narratives patterns".

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Teen horror'slton argues mirrors have been used so frequently in horror films that audiences have been conditioned to fear them, and subverting audience expectations of a jump scare in a mirror can further build tension.

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Critic and author Kim Newman described Georges Melies Le Manoir du diable as the first Teen horror film, featuring elements that would become staples in the genre: images of demons, ghosts, and haunted castles.

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Early 1950s featured only a few gothic Teen horror films developed, prior to the release of Hammer Film Productions's gothic films, Hammer originally began developing American-styled science fiction films in the early 1950s but later branched into Teen horror with their colour films The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula .

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Muir commented that in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War, the United States did not really have a "serious enemy" internationally, leading to Teen horror films adapting to fictional enemies predominantly within America, with the American government, large businesses, organized religion and the upper class as well as supernatural and occult items such as vampires or Satanists filling in the Teen horror villains of the 1990s.

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Post-modern Teen horror films continued into the 2000s, eventually just being released as humorous parody films.

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Teen horror oriented series began in the era with Final Destination while the success of the 1999 remake of William Castle's House on Haunted Hill led to a series of remakes in the decade.

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Edelstein lumped in films such as Saw and Wolf Creek under this banner suggesting audience a "titillating and shocking" while film scholars of early 21st century Teen horror films described them as "intense bodily acts and visible bodily representations" to produce uneasy reactions.

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The beginning of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on the film industry, leading to several Teen horror films being held back from release, or having their production halted.

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Genre that emerged in the 1970s, body Teen horror films focus on the process of a bodily transformation.

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Folk Teen horror uses elements of folklore or other religious and cultural beliefs to instil fear in audiences.

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Folk Teen horror films have featured rural settings and themes of isolation, religion and nature.

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Supernatural Teen horror films integrate supernatural elements, such as the afterlife, spirit possession and religion into the Teen horror genre.

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Teen horror is a horror subgenre that victimizes teenagers while usually promoting strong, anti-conformity teenage leads, appealing to young generations.

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Psychological Teen horror is a subgenre of Teen horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience.

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Unlike Hollywood and most Western cinematic traditions, Teen horror films produced in India incorporate romance, song-and-dance, and other elements in the "masala" format, where as many genres as possible are bundled into a single film.

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Horror films are not self-evident categories in Tamil and Telugu films and it was only until the late 1980s that straight Teen horror cinema was regularly produced with films like Uruvam, Sivi, and Eeram were released.

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Korean Teen horror film originated in the 1960s and became a more prominent part of the countries film production in the early 2000s.

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Korean Teen horror cinema is defined by melodrama, as it does in most of Korean cinema.

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Since the film's release, Korean horror films had had strong diversity with gothic tales like A Tale of Two Sisters, gory horror films like Bloody Reunion, horror comedy, vampire films, and independent productions .

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European Teen horror films draw from distinctly European cultural sources, including surrealism, romanticism, decadent tradition, early 20th century pulp-literature, film serials, and erotic comics.

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Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1980s, European Teen horror films emerged from counties like Italy, Spain and France and were shown in the United States predominantly at drive-in theatre and grindhouse theatres.

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European Teen horror films began developing strong cult following since the late 1990s.

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American Teen horror movies do well, but in their own language, the French just aren't interested.

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German postwar Teen horror films remained marginal after its success during the silent film era.

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German Teen horror films made a comeback in what Werbeck described as a mainstream fashion in the 21st century.

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Italy's initial wave of Teen horror films were gothic Teen horror were rooted in popular cinema, and we're often co-productions with other countries.

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Mexican Teen horror cinema has been noted for the mashup of classic gothic and romantic themes and characters with autochthonous features of the Mexican culture such as the Rancheria setting, the colonial past or the myth of La Llorona .

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Audience members with positive feedback regarding the Teen horror film have feelings similar to happiness or joy felt with friends, but intensified.

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Steffen Hantke noted that academic criticism about Teen horror cinema had "always operated under duress" noting that challenges in legitimizing its subject, finding "career-minded academics might have always suspected that they were studying something that was ultimately too frivolous, garish, and sensationalistic to warrant serious critical attention".

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Some commentary has suggested that Teen horror films have been underrepresented or underappreciated as serious works worthy of film criticism and major films awards.

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Many Teen horror films have been the subject of moral panic, censorship and legal controversy.

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