Les Vampires 1915

One of the most popular film genre is the horror film, and it is also one of the oldest. Film pioneer Georges Melies made supernatural events received much of his short films of silent cinema, his most notable being the devil's Mansion, or The House of the Devil, in 1896, which some regard as the first horror film .

The first monster movie in a horror feature, in itself, was Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame. Before Wegener's The Golem, in 1915, and Robert Wiener The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and the first vampire movie, Nosferatu.

Lon Chaney Sr. was the first American horror movie star, playing leads in both The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1923 and the monster in 1925. He is best known, however, for his title role in the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera. In the 1930 Gothic horror films all the rage in Hollywood. These include Dracula 1931, starring Bela Lugosi, The Mummy in 1932, and one of the horror movies the most controversial ever made, Freaks, based on the new Spurs by Ted Robbins. How controversial. So much so that the studio has burned at least thirty minutes of footage of movies and then denied completely.

The horror film genre developed in the 1950s and 60s to include films that presented the external threats, such as mutations, aliens, and zombies. It was also the era of 3D glasses and the technique used electroshock Percepto theater audiences at screenings of the movie The Tingler.

In 1964 the Production Code of America has been abandoned, and gore films focusing on the occult and began to be produced, starting in 1968 by Rosemary Baby The Exorcist in 1973, and in The Omen 1976. The first adaptation of a Stephen King novel, Carrie, has also been published in 1976.

In the 1980s, the genre of horror film saw the inclusion of films like Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert Englund, Friday, thirteen, a breeze, and Creepshow, which led to several sequels. This trend continued into the 1990s, and the tendency of self reflection horror movies, like Carrie, also pursued films like Interview with the Vampire, which was based on the novel by Anne Rice people of the same name. self parodying movies, like the Scream trilogy were popular.

Modern horror films puts more focus on gore and torture as their predecessors, as evidenced by the success of the Saw films. Remakes of horror classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dawn of the Dead have also acquired the following in their own right. The horror genre is one that is both timeless and evolving.