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Newman later described Cat People and the other horror productions by Lewton such as I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Seventh Victim (1943) as "polished, doom-haunted, poetic" while film critic Roger Ebert the films Lewton produced in the 1940s were "landmark[s] in American movie history". [55] Several horror films of the 1940s borrowed ...
This is a list of lists of horror films. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between horror and other genres (including action, thriller, ...
This is a category for lists of horror films by year. For some decades there is a separate list for each year. Pages in category "Lists of horror films by year"
The project is intended to serve as a "love letter to classic Hollywood and the history of film-making with a story that takes a multi-generational approach to the monsters and a more PG-rated, lighthearted family-friendly tone in the tradition of the classic '80s Spielberg films from Amblin Entertainment to match as well".
Pre-1940s science fiction horror films (4 C) S. Slasher films by decade (7 C) Supernatural horror films by decade (13 C) T. Teen horror films by decade (6 C)
The golden age of horror (also referred to as the new golden age of horror) is the period in the history of horror movies in which various subgenres of horror movies received positive attention from mainstream cinemas, movie critics, as well as the general public.
Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon , in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length ... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". [ 1 ]
The Dictionary of Film Studies defines the horror film as representing “disturbing and dark subject matter, seeking to elicit responses of fear, terror, disgust, shock, suspense, and, of course, horror from their viewers.” [2] In the chapter The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s from Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (2002), film critic Robin Wood declared that the commonality between ...