Every decade of horror has its star attraction, a magnum opus to what made each decade stand out as a beloved era. The Universal Monsters' cycle and the pre-code reign ruled the 1930s output towards the formative horror genre. The 1940s saw the likes of gothic noir and continued creature features run wild, followed by the science-fiction subgenre of horror taking form throughout the 1950s, perhaps as a response to the communal threat of the nuclear age. The horror genre's showpiece for the 1960s was Hammer Horror and the induction of Italian giallo cinema. The 1970s saw a rise in exploitation, grindhouse skin-flicks and anti-establishment frights. Slashers dominated the 1980s, which were accompanied by the likes of the 'video nasty' scandal, the satanic panic pandemonium and teen horror. Later, the new millennium saw a resurgence in gnarly teen horrors, with a focus on fun debauchery, joining the cinematic sphere which showcased a whole slew of hits, trends and crazes such as the J-Horror remake-a-thon, 'torture-porn', found footage and remakes, the latter two of which continued to blossom throughout the 2010s and onwards.
