Horror Genre

PsychoActually, the film talks about Norman Bates, a man around 30 years old who is managing a motel.

A woman arrives during a night at this motel after running away from Los Angeles.

The thing is that at first, we got the feeling that Norman Bates is someone normal except maybe that he is still leaving in the big house next to the motel with his mother.

We first think is that Norman's mother killed her.

ScreamThere is first, Sidney Prescott, a student who stays with her friends.

After, there is the cop Dewey Riley who is also the brother of Sidney's best friend and a journalist Gale Weathers.

Those three people and Sidney's friends will be the target of the two killers with a ghost face who will kill people one by one until to face Sidney at the end of the movie.

The identity of the two killers are revealed at the end and people who survived, help Sidney to stop them.

List- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)

- Frankenstein (1931)

- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

- I Know What You Did

Last Summer (1997)

- Saw (2004)

Differences

Setting the plot

The atmosphere

The process before to kill the victim

The number of victim

The way to show the killer

Early Examples

The Haunted Castle directed by Georges Méliès in 1896

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1913 directed by Herbert Brenon

Defining The Genre

Crime

Violence

Fear

Ghost

Creatures

Famous People From Horror Genre

Alfred Hitchcock

Wes Craven

Stephen King

Robert Englund