| Horror movies are famous all over the world for their | | | | Cave of the Demons"). The early 20th century brought |
| essence of thrill, shock and suspense. It is violent, and | | | | more milestones for the horror genre including the first |
| enjoyment of them depends on an enjoyment of | | | | monster to appear in a full-length horror film, |
| violence and is. All of the Characters from horror | | | | Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who had |
| movies are important, but the BEST HEROES have a | | | | appeared in Victor Hugo's book, "Notre-Dame de |
| special place in our hearts. | | | | Paris" (published in 1831). Many of the earliest feature |
| In horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters, | | | | length 'horror films' were created by German film |
| sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into the | | | | makers in 1910s and 1920s, many of which were a |
| everyday world. Early horror films often drew | | | | significant influence on later Hollywood films. |
| inspiration from characters and stories from classic | | | | Caligari was both controversial with American |
| literature, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, | | | | audiences, due to postwar sentiments, and influential in |
| The Wolf Man, The Phantom of the Opera and Dr. | | | | its Expressionistic style; the most enduring horror film of |
| Later horror films, in contrast, often drew inspiration | | | | that era was probably the first vampire-themed |
| from the insecurities of life since World War Two, | | | | feature, F. His most famous role, however, was in The |
| giving rise to the three distinct, but related subgenres of | | | | Phantom of the Opera (1925), perhaps the true |
| the horror-of-personality film, the | | | | predecessor of Universal's famous horror series. , |
| horror-of-Armageddon film, and the | | | | popularized the horror film, bringing to the screen a |
| horror-of-the-demonic film. The last subgenre may be | | | | series of successful Gothic features including Dracula |
| seen as a modernized transition from the earlier horror | | | | (1931), and The Mummy (1932), some of which blended |
| films, expanding on the earlier emphasis on | | | | science fiction films with Gothic horror, such as James |
| supernatural agents that bring horror to the world. | | | | Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and The Invisible Man |
| Nonetheless, some major studios and respected | | | | (1933). Universal's horror films continued into the 1940s |
| directors have made forays into the genre, and more | | | | with The Wolf Man 1941, not the first werewolf film, but |
| serious critics have analyzed horror films through the | | | | certainly the most influential. With the dramatic changes |
| prisms of genre theory and the auteur theory. Some | | | | in technology that occurred in the 1950s, the tone of |
| horror films incorporate elements of other genres such | | | | horror films shifted away from the gothic towards |
| as science fiction, fantasy, black comedy, and thrillers. | | | | science fiction. The classier horror films of this period, |
| The horror genre is nearly as old as film itself. The first | | | | including The Thing from Another World (1951; |
| depictions of supernatural events appear in several of | | | | attributed on screen to Christian Nyby but widely |
| the silent shorts created by film pioneers such as | | | | considered to be the work of Howard Hawks) and |
| Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the | | | | Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
| most notable being his 1896 Le Manoir du diable (aka | | | | managed to channel the paranoia of the Cold War into |
| "The House of the Devil") which is sometimes credited | | | | atmospheric creepiness without resorting to direct |
| as being the first horror film. Another of his horror | | | | exploitation of the events of the day. |
| projects was the 1898 La Caverne maudite (aka "The | | | | |