Goth_Horror_Flicks

Goth Horror Flicks The genre of Gothic horror film has existed almost as long as the cinema itself, and it has always fascinated me. As the definition above suggests, the word can be loosely used to define any horror story with suitable settings, but such themes as disturbing dreams, desperate, undying love and melancholic romanticisation of death are also usually important in Gothic cinema. The following is a brief and superficial overview on Gothic horror film and some classics of the genre. Directed by Robert Wiene in 1919, Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari was one of the first Gothic horror films. Although the more usual Gothic environment was replaced by disturbingly dreamlike sets, this incredibly inventive story of dream, madness, love and evil is thematically more truly Gothic than any of your average graveyards-castles-and-living-dead spook flicks. Being also the film that first introduced the character of a mad doctor to a horror audience, The Cabinet remains a first rate masterpiece nearly eighty years after its original release. It is obvious that there are few things more Gothic than vampires. This was to be noticed by the world in 1922, when the German expressionist F. W. Murnau made the first ever film adaptation of gothic, films, film, vampire, horror, dracula, story, genre, traditional, novel, first, even, classics, although, one, made, cinema, based, stories, series, love, hammer, european, directors, count, after, years, very, style, sixties, settings, scene, own, often, nosferatu