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• 1890s-1920s

• Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

• 1930s & 1940s

• Epic thriller M

• 1950s-1960s

• The Thing from Another World

• Hammer Film Productions

• Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

• Ghosts and monsters

• Hitchcock's The Birds

• 1970s

• Alice, Sweet Alice

• Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left

• Psychological Exploration

• Jaws

• Mario Bava

• Dario Argento

• Lucio Fulci

• Jacinto Molina

• Jess Franco

• Shaw Studios

• 1980s

• Gory Modern Horror

• The Anthropophagus Beast

• A Blade in the Dark

• The New York Ripper

• 1990s

• In the Mouth of Madness

• The Dark Half

• Candyman

• The Grand Guignol Style

• The Canadian film Cube

• Peter Jackson's Braindead

• The Blair Witch Project

• 2000s

• Final Destination

• A French Horror Film

• Dawn of the Dead (2004)

• Audition

• Wrong Turn

• House of 1000 Corpses

• The Devil's Rejects

• Wolf Creek (2005)

• Rob Zombie

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History - 1930s & 1940s

It was in the early 1930s that American film producers, particularly Universal Pictures Co. Inc., popularized the horror film, bringing to the screen a series of successful Gothic features including Dracula (1931), and The Mummy (1932), some of which blended science fiction films with Gothic horror, such as James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and The Invisible Man (1933).

Tod Browning, director of Dracula, also made the extremely controversial Freaks based on Spurs by Ted Robbins, it is about a band of circus freaks. It was so controversial the studio burned about 30 minutes and disowned it. These films, while designed to thrill, also incorporated more serious elements, and were influenced by the German expressionist films of the 1920s. Some actors began to build entire careers in such films, most notably Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

Horror film - History - Epic thriller M

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