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A film poster for Cat People (1942), the first film made by producer Val Lewton that created a new style of horror film. After the success of Son of Frankenstein (1939), Universal's horror films received what author Rick Worland of The Horror Film called "a second wind" and horror films continued to be produced at a feverish pace into the mid ...
This is a list of first horror films by country. List. Country Year Title Original title Director(s) Notes Argentina: 1942: A Light in the Window: Una luz en la ventana:
This is a list of lists of horror films. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between horror and other genres (including action, thriller, ...
What made the movie historic, however, was the fact that Craven used the script as an opportunity to satirize, deconstruct, and lampoon the tropes of the horror genre — including some of his own ...
The film historian Georges Sadoul hypothesized that the Devil in the film was played by Jules-Eugène Legris, [6] a magician who performed at Méliès's Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris and who later made an appearance in Méliès's famous 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. [9]
3. Freaks (1932). Here's another one of the most important horror films ever made, and another one that ruined the director's career. Following the enormous success of 1931's Dracula, studio ...
White Zombie is considered the first feature-length zombie film and has been described as the archetype and model of all zombie movies. [2] [3] A number of Hollywood actors made a name for themselves in horror films of this decade, in particular Bela Lugosi (Dracula, 1931) and Boris Karloff (Frankenstein, 1931).
The 21st century so far has given us scary movies with an artful bent, such as "Get Out" and "Hereditary." The best horror movies since 2001, ranked.