Horror Films. Horror Filmsare unsettling films. Horror films effectively.

The fantasy and supernatural film. Horror films are also known.

See also Scariest. Film Moments and Scenes (illustrated) - from many of the. Greatest Horror Films ever made, Best. Film Death Scenes (illustrated), and Three Great Horror. Film Franchises. Introduction to Horror Films Genre: Horror films go back as far as the onset of films themselves. From our earliest days, we use our vivid imaginations. Watching a horror film gives an opening.

Weird as it sounds, there's a very real thrill. Horror films, when done well and with less reliance on horrifying. Of necessity, the earliest horror films were Gothic in style. Their main characters have included . Oscar Wilde's 1. 89. Faustian tale The Picture of Dorian Gray and H. G. Wells' 1. 89. 6 story of The Island of Dr.

Moreau were adapted into early film versions. In many. ways, the expressionistic German silent cinema led the world in films of horror. Many. of the early silent classics would be remade during the talkies era.

The Earliest Horror Films: Vampires (Vamps), Monsters, and. More The vampire character has been one of the most ubiquitous. Dark, primitive, and revolting characters. At first, bloodsuckers (leeches). Demonic or supernatural possession was often juxtaposed with. Many religions, myths, folk- tales and.

Vampires began to emerge in popular fiction of the. Anglo- Irish writer Bram.

Stoker's 1. 89. 7 vampire novel Dracula was written. It has. become the most popular, influential and preeminent source material. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1.

Carmilla came. a close second to Stoker's writings. Stoker's seminal book hatched. Count who vied for their prey, and a vampire hunter with garlic to. It appeared that Quasimodo, from Victor Hugo's Notre- Dame.

Paris 1. 83. 1 novel, became the first horror figure in the 1. Alice Guy titled Esmeralda (1. Fr.), and soon after was seen in the full- length horror. Notre- Dame De Paris (1. Fr.) (aka The Hunchback of. Notre Dame). In the French silent film.

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Les Vampires (1. 91. Fr.). (aka The Vampires) by director/writer Louis. Feuillade, subversive vampire thieves sucked the blood out of sleeping. Parisian society, and stole their jewels.

The villainous. leader of the vamps was Irma Vep (Musidora), an anagram for VAMPIRE. Download Wonder Wheel (2017) Movie Hq. One. of the more memorable and influential of the early films was Germany's. Das Kabinett des.

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Doktor Caligari (1. Ger.) (aka. The Cabinet of Dr. The shadowy, disturbing, distorted, and dream- nightmarish.

Caligari,' with twisted alleyways. It was brought to Hollywood in.

This made the film. Francis) dream, thereby diluting the subversive nature of the.

Early Vampire Films: Female vamps made an appearance in Robert Vignola's melodramatic The Vampire (1. Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1. The. earliest significant vampire film was director Arthur Robison's German silent film Nachte.

Grauens (1. 91. 6, Ger.) (aka Night of Horror) with strange, vampire- like. Until recently, the lost Hungarian film Drakula halala (1. Hung.) (aka The Death. Dracula), was widely assumed to be the first adaptation of Anglo- Irish writer Bram Stoker's. Dracula, and featured cinema's first Drakula.

The first genuine vampire picture. European filmmaker - director F. Murnau's feature- length Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1. Ger.) (aka Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des.

Grauens). Shot on location, it was an unauthorized film adaptation of Stoker's Dracula with Max Schreck in the title role as the screen's first vampire. Count Graf Orlok living in the late 1. German town of Bremen. Because of copyright problems, the vampire. Nosferatu rather than Dracula, and the action was moved from Transylvania.

Bremen. In the film's. Nina. (Greta Schroder) into remaining past daybreak, so Orlok met his fate by. German. director Werner Herzog's faithful shot- by- shot color remake Nosferatu the Vampyre (1. Romantic Movies 2009 Abacus Small Enough To Jail (2017).

Klaus Kinski as the nauseating Count Dracula and beautiful Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker. Producer/director Augusto Caminito's sequel was Vampire in Venice (1. It.) (aka Nosferatu a Venezia) with Kinski as Nosferatu and Christopher Plummer as inept vampire hunter Professor Paris Catalano. At the turn of the century, Shadow of the Vampire. John Malkovich. as obsessive director F.

W. It asked the question: . Wegener directed the first. Golem legend by Gustav Meyrinck - Der. Golem (1. 91. 4, Ger.) (aka The Monster of Fate), and then remade it a few years. Der Golem Und Die Tanzerin (1. Ger.) (aka The Golem and the Dancer) - notably the first horror film sequel. He remade the film a third time.

Karl Freund as cinematographer, again titling it Der Golem (1. Ger.). (aka The Golem: or How He Came Into the World). The expressionistic film. Central European myths and influenced later 'Frankenstein'. The Golem, played by Wegener, was an ancient clay figure from. Hebrew mythology that was brought to life by Rabbi Loew's magic amulet to. Jews from a pogrom in the 1.

Rudolf II of Habsburg. The earliest horror pictures were one- reel or full length features.

US from 1. 90. 9 to the early 1. Many of them are now- forgotten . The first Frankenstein monster film in the. US was Frankenstein (1. J. Searle Dawley, a 1. Edison Studios and starring Charles Ogle as the monster. In this early. version, the Monster was created in a cauldron of chemicals rather than by a bolt of lightning.

Two other silent. Frankenstein films were Joseph W. Smiley's Life Without Soul (1. German film Homunculus (1. Before the 1. 93. Hollywood was reluctant to.

Instead, the studios took. The Miser's Conversion (1. The Miser's Reversion) was the first film to depict a screen transformation by using a series of dissolves with footage of the character's different stages of makeup, rather than a single jump- cut. This was later used to great effect in many films including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1. The Wolf Man (1. 94. In the film, the title character miser (Sidney Bracey), 7.

John Grisley, obsessed with the idea of evolution, acquired a rejuvenation serum that transformed him into a 4. To intensify the effect, he drank the entire bottle of serum and reverted into an ape. Man of a Thousand Faces - Lon Chaney: The First.

American Horror Film Star. One. actor who helped pave the way for the change in outlook and acceptance of. Lon (Alonso) Chaney, Sr., known as . He was soon to become the first American horror- film star and Hollywood's first great character actor. His first grotesque character role as a fake cripple (a contorted figure named the Frog), his breakthrough role, was in The Miracle Man (1.

Chaney's films, collaborating with director Tod Browning on ten feature films over a decade, included these examples of lurid melodrama (and horror) and crime: Universal's The Wicked Darling (1. Chaney's first film partnering with Tod Browning, portraying a thief named Stoop Connors Universal's Outside the Law (1. Chaney in a dual supporting role as Black Mike Sylva and Ah Wing. MGM's The Unholy Three (1. Chaney as a criminal ventriloquist named Professor Echo; it was later remade by MGM in 1.

Jack Conway (again with Chaney) - it was Chaney's first and only talkie before he died of throat cancer MGM's The Blackbird (1. Chaney portrayed the dual roles of Dan 'The Blackbird' and The Bishop. MGM's The Road to Mandalay (1. Chaney took the role of Singapore Joe MGM's London After Midnight (1. Browning's first Hollywood vampire film (a lost film) in which. Chaney starred as a sunken and dark- eyed vampirish character.

MGM's The Unknown (1. Chaney portrayed Alonzo the Armless Knife- thrower, a circus performer, with an obsession for a carnival girl (Joan Crawford in an early role) in its tale of a love- triangle MGM's West of Zanzibar (1. Chaney was cast as English magician named Phroso, now crippled and bald- headed and known as 'Dead- Legs' in . This film was a technical achievement.

Technicolor 'Bal Masque' sequence, the falling chandelier. Its dark expressionistic tones helped set the.

Its most famous scene was ingenue Christine's.