Horror Films. Horror Filmsare unsettling films. Horror films effectively. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears our nightmares, our vulnerability. Whatever dark, primitive, and revolting traits that. Horror films are often combined with science. Earth is threatened by aliens. The fantasy and supernatural film. Reviews horror, European, cult, and midnight movies on DVD. Tickets for Concerts, Sports, Theatre and More Online at TicketsInventory. Cult Comedy Movies Haunted Castle ' title='Cult Comedy Movies Haunted Castle ' />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, theres a very real thrill. Horror films, when done well and with less reliance on horrifying. The best horror films only imply or suggest the horror in subtle. Val Lewtons horror films. In horror films, the irrational forces of chaos or horror invariably need. Download Full Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams. Of necessity, the earliest horror films were Gothic in style. Their main characters have included unknown, human. Frankensteins, JekyllHyde. Satanic villains, the. Horror films developed out of a number of sources folktales. Grand. Guignol melodramas, and Gothic or Victorian novels from Europe by way. Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo or Irish writer Bram Stoker, and American writers Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe. Oscar Wildes 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. Stokers 1. 89. 7 vampire novel Dracula was written. It has. become the most popular, influential and preeminent source material. Sheridan Le Fanus 1. Carmilla came. a close second to Stokers writings. Stokers seminal book hatched. Count who vied for their prey, and a vampire hunter with garlic to. Prince of Darkness and with a wooden stake to drive through Draculas heart. The first horror movie, only about two minutes long. French filmmaker Georges Melies, titled Le. Manoir Du Diable 1. Fr. aka The Devils CastleThe Haunted. Castle containing familiar elements of later horror and vampire. Mephistopheles, and skeletons, ghosts, and witches and a crucifix. It appeared that Quasimodo, from Victor Hugos 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. Les Vampires 1. 91. Fr. aka The Vampires by directorwriter 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. The partly scripted, partly improvised episodes with eye catching. The Severed Head and The Ring That. Kills. followed investigative journalist Philippe Gurande. Math and his comic sidekick Oscar Mazamette. Marcel Lvesque in their continued attempts to foil The Vampire. Gangs elaborate schemes and gadgets. One. of the more memorable and influential of the early films was Germanys. Das Kabinett des. Doktor Caligari 1. Ger. aka. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari from. director Robert Wiene, about a ghost like hypnotist therapist in. Dr. Caligari Werner Kraus who calls pale skinned. Cesare Conrad Veidt, later known for. Major Strasser in Casablanca. The shadowy, disturbing, distorted, and dream nightmarish. Caligari, with twisted alleyways. It was brought to Hollywood in. As with many classic films i. Invasion. of the Body Snatchers 1. This made the film. Francis dream, thereby diluting the subversive nature of the. Early Vampire Films Female vamps made an appearance in Robert Vignolas melodramatic The Vampire 1. Theda Bara in A Fool There Was 1. The. earliest significant vampire film was director Arthur Robisons German silent film Nachte. Grauens 1. 91. 6, Ger. 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 Stokers. Dracula, and featured cinemas first Drakula. The first genuine vampire picture. European filmmaker director F. W. Murnaus 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 Stokers Dracula with Max Schreck in the title role as the screens 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. The emaciated, balding, undead vampires image was unforgettable. In the films. conclusion, the grotesque, cadaverous creature was tricked by the heroine Nina. Greta Schroder into remaining past daybreak, so Orlok met his fate by. Note There were many attempts to copy or remake the film. German. director Werner Herzogs faithful shot by shot color remake Nosferatu the Vampyre 1. Klaus Kinski as the nauseating Count Dracula and beautiful Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker. Producerdirector Augusto Caminitos 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. Murnau. It asked the question What if. Max Schreck Oscar nominated Willem Dafoe, who played the character of. Count Orlok, was indeed a vampire Early Monster Frankenstein Films In. Danish director Stellan Ryes and Paul Wegeners early German silent horror film Der Student. Prag 1. 91. 3, Ger. The Student of PragueA Bargain With Satan, based loosely upon the Faust legend. The student was portrayed by actorproducerdirector Paul Wegener in his film. It was the first artistically important German production and was. Henrik Galeen. Wegener directed the first. Golem legend by Gustav Meyrinck Der. Golem 1. 91. 4, Ger. 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 Loews magic amulet to. Jews from a pogrom in the 1. Rudolf II of Habsburg. The man made, clay creature roamed through the Jewish ghetto of medieval Prague to protect it from persecution. 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 vamp pictures featuring devilish, captivating ladies. 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. Smileys Life Without Soul 1. German film Homunculus 1. Before the 1. 93. Hollywood was reluctant to.