The 1970's mostly was known as the "Era of the creepy kid". Children are normally seen as innocent figures who can do nothing bad or evil. Horror films throughout the 70's played on people's fear of the unknown as no one could know what goes on in someone's mind. Not only were children the main figures of these films, sometimes they were grown adults. The 1970's is the origin of psychological horror, developed from Norman Bates' character and made into an even more creepy, evil, psycho figure. The flagship films of the 70's include The Exorcist (1973) one of the highest grossing horror films of all time, The Omen (1976). The "Norman Bates but worse" character is first seen in the 1974 gore fest The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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The 1978 teen slasher "Halloween" starring Jamie Lee Curtis as a teen babysitter stalked by a masked psycho with a large kitchen knife known as Michael Myers was the catalyst for the domination of the slasher genre in the 1980's and is the first major "Teen Horror" movie.
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