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• Horror film

• Armageddon film

• History

• 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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In 1931, Fritz Lang released his epic thriller M, which chillingly told the story of a serial killer of children, played by Peter Lorre.

Freaks - 1932

Other studios of the day had less spectacular success, but Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paramount, 1931) and Michael Curtiz's Mystery of the Wax Museum (Warner Brothers, 1933) were both important horror films.

Universal's horror films continued into the 1940s with The Wolf Man 1941, not the first werewolf film, but certainly the most influential.

Throughout the decade Universal also continued to produce more sequels in the Frankenstein series, as well as a number of films teaming up several of their monsters. Also in that decade, Val Lewton would produce atmospheric B-pictures for RKO Pictures, including Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Body Snatcher (1945).

The first horror film produced by an Indian film industry was Mahal, a Hindi film. It was a supernatural thriller and the earliest known film dealing with the theme of reincarnation.

Horror film - History - 1950s-1960s

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