Research: What is teen horror?

Teen Horror is a type of genre which is aimed at teenagers. Most teen horrors include characters which are also similiar to the target audience, which in this case are teenagers. Most teen horrors are rated 15-18 BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) which means the movies include scenes which cannot be shown to anybody under the age of 15.

 

The most popular Teen Horror movie is the 1978 movie 'Halloween'. Halloween is about a teenage babysitter looking after her Neighbours baby. The Neighbour is being stalked by a masked maniac known as Mike Myers, who later in the story is found to be the neigbhours long lost brother. Halloween was just the start of several decades of teen horrors.

The first Horror movie recorded was called 'The Haunted Castle (1896) directed by Georges Méliès. The Haunted Castle is a french film which is just 3 minutes long and is a silent movie. The film starts off with a large bat flying into a medieval castle. Once in, the bat circles slowly while flapping its monstrous wings before suddenly changing into Mephistopheles (Georges Méliès). After preparing a cauldron, the demon produces skeletons, ghosts, and witches from its bubbling contents before one of the summoned underworld cavaliers holds up a crucifix and Satan vanishes in a blast of smoke.