Main Task Research: Horror films through the decades: the 50's

The 50's is when Sci-Fi (Science Fiction) Horror took centre stage from the dark gothic horror era of the 30's and 40's. In the 1950's everyone was still reflecting on the Second World War which ended in the worst example of technological warfare possible; The American nuclear bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing over 150,000 Japanese citizens. Horror films in the 1950's aimed to prey on the public's paranoia of nuclear warfare by making films about monsters,born from Nuclear weaponry! The film that started this trend was "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953). The most notorious 50's horror film though was "Godzilla" (1954). The 50's in the horror film market was known as "The Atomic Age". 

Godzilla (1954)

A clip from "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"