Watch how fear, suspense, dread, panic, terror, mystery and eeriness changed over the decades.

  7 Juli 2016 09:24

Brilio.net/en - Like it or not, horror movies occupy a very long and fascinating place in the history of cinema. A genre that seek to evoke a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears have remarkably existed for more than a century.

In order to celebrate more than a hundred years of terror, a cinephile Diego Carrera decided to put together a magnificent video exhibiting the movies that have made the hairs on our neck stand straight for over 120 years.

Diego run through 122 years of horror on the big screen by creating a short clip containing scenes from various horror movies. He picked one horror movie for each year, beginning in 1895 with the classics such as "The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots", "Nosferatu", "Night of the Living Dead", running all the way to the modern like "The Blair Witch Project", "Conjuring" and finally 2016's "The Witch".

Perhaps, you do not particularly agree with the movie chosen to represent a given year, yet Diego's footage has a brilliant way to show how horror changed over the decades.

Appearing in a sped-up frames for a creepier feel, here's A History of Horror by Diego Carrera:

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