1820s. The Frankenstein and Dracula novels, both resulting from the Luddite revolts, set the tone for all horror stories since. Are they movies? No, but multiple film adaptations have been made of each. Their influence can be seen and felt in horror stories even now, 200 years after first publication. And the core stories, wealthy elites first preying upon (Dracula) and then abandoning (Frankenstein) the newly impoverished working classes, are also modern contemporary reality; just as it was for the Luddites at the dawn of the industrial revolution.
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