Speaker Notes (first two slides) :

The other slides on paranormal activity and psychology were my groups.

• Horror films being a type of genre have changed standards over the years. What characteristics actually consider a scary movie to be scary? Beginning in the early 1900’s “scary” was all about creatures or monsters. Horror films tapped into the imagination of things that didn’t exist such as Dracula or Frankenstein. Then characteristics changed into blood and gory. Most of the scary movies then , such as Halloween contained some type of murderer with brutal killings-and typically shown a lot of blood.