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Lists of horror films. This is a list of lists of horror films. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between horror and other genres (including action, thriller, and science fiction films ).
- List of Horror Films of The 1990S
Horror films released in the 1990s are listed in the...
- List of Horror Films of The 1980S
Horror films released in the 1980s are listed in the...
- List of Horror Films of The 2000S
Horror films released in the 2000s are listed in the...
- List of Horror Films of The 1940S
A list of horror films released in the 1940s.After the...
- List of Horror Films of The 1970S
Horror films released in the 1970s are listed in the...
- List of Monster Movies
This is a list of monster movies, about such creatures as...
- List of Holiday Horror Films
The genre has its own subgenres, such as Christmas horror....
- List of Horror Films of The 1930S
History. The American horror film was properly created in...
- List of Horror Films of The 1990S
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. [2] Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs.
This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total. Horror films by continent (6 C) Horror films by date (3 C) Horror films by format (3 C) Horror films by genre (49 C, 10 P) Horror films by source (2 C) _ Horror film soundtracks (1 C, 86 P) - Documentary films about horror (41 P) : Horror film directors (509 P) *
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In his book Caligari's Children: The Film as Tale of Terror (1980), author Siegbert Solomon Prawer stated that horror films cannot be interpreted as following a linear historical path. Historians and critics like Carlos Clarens noted that while some film audiences at the time took films made by Tod Browning that starred Bela Lugosi with utmost seri...
Pre-film
Forms of filmmaking that would become film genres were mostly defined in other media before Thomas Edison devised the Kinetograph in the late 1890s. Genres, such as adventure, detective stories, and Westerns were developed as written fiction while musical was a staple to theatre. Author and critic Kim Newman stated that if something was referred to as a horror film in 1890, no one would have understood what it meant as a specific genre, while following up that these types of films were being...
Early film
In the nineteenth century, the word "horror" began to be used as a generic signation, albeit a rare one. In early cinema, trick films were sometimes described with various terms: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company sometimes called their films "fantastic", Selig Polyscope Company called such films "mythical and mysterious" while Vitagraph Studios both "mysterious" and "magical". During the era of Nickelodeon exhibits, exhibitors would use the label "weird", with Frankenstein (1910) being...
In 1924, British producer Hamilton Deane premiered a stage version of Dracula at the Grand Theatre in Derby, England. An American version had premiered on Broadway in 1927 and featuring actor Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. Rhodes described the play as "taking America storm". In June 1930, Universal Studios officially purchased the rights to both the...
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-1940s. Universal looked into their 1930s horror properties to develop new follow-ups such as The Invisible Man Returns (1940) ...
While studies suggest that gothic horror had fallen out of fashion between the release of House of Dracula (1945) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), small glimpses of the genre appeared in films such as The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951), The Strange Door (1951), The Black Castle (1952) and House of Wax (1953). Prior to the release of Hammer Film Prod...
Newman that the horror film changed dramatically in 1960. Specifically, with Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960) based on the novel by Robert Bloch. Newman declared that the film elevated the idea of a multiple-personality serial killer that set the tone future film that was only touched upon in earlier melodramas and film noirs such as Hangover ...
Historian John Kenneth Muir described the 1970s as a "truly eclectic time" for horror cinema, noting a mixture of fresh and more personal efforts on film while other were a resurrection of older characters that have appeared since the 1930s and 1940s. Night of the Living Dead had what Newman described as a "slow burning influence" on horror films o...
The 1980s marked the first time since the early 1960s of horror film fandom with far more loose organized community of fans rose with the increased publication of fanzines and magazines such as Cinefantastique, Fangoria and Starburst as horror film festivals like Shock Around the Clock and Dead by Dawn developing. In the appearance of home video, h...
Horror films of the 1990s also failed to develop as many major new directors of the genre as it had in the 1960s or 1970s. Young intendent filmmakers such as Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater, Michael Moore and Quentin Tarantino broke into cinema outside the genre at non-genre festivals like the Sundance Film Festival. Newman noted that the early 1990...
Newman described the first trend of horror films in the 2000s followed the success of The Blair Witch Project, but predominantly in a parody format: The Bogus Witch Project (2000), The Blair Underwood Project (2000) and the pornographic The Erotic Witch Project (2000). Other films included similar low-budget imitators like The St. Francisville Expe...
A horror movie is a movie made to scare the viewer. The main stories of horror movies often involve supernatural forces or characters of evil origin. Horror movies are often confused with thrillers, which are similar. Popular horror movie characters usually include monsters.
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Help. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Subcategories. This category has the following 49 subcategories, out of 49 total. Action horror films (6 C) Adventure horror films (1 C, 54 P) Animated horror films (1 C, 7 P) Body horror films (4 C, 26 P) Cannibal-boom films (18 P) Children's horror films (3 C, 44 P)