The rise of the Horror Film
Contributing factors, literary movements:
- Romanticism, a rebuttal to the rising rationalism of the Enlightenment
- Gothic, a terrifying, mysterious subset of Romanticism
- Expressionism, a style that distorts nature to emulate emotion.
Contributing factors, visually:
- German expressionist movement
- Increasing technological facility with lighting, effects
- Cinema of Attractions - special effects as vaudeville
