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The First Horror Movie Was Made
Le Manoir du Diable ( The Haunted Castle in English) Directed by, Produced by, written by, and starring Georges Melies. This was the first Horror movie on record and features a man walking into a presumably empty castle only to get his pants scared off by the ghosts, bats, and everything else in the haunted castle -
The First Ever Monster Movie
While "The Haunted Castle" may be the first ever horror movie, this film, "The Golem" is the first full length monster film, clocking in at over 1 hour and 40 minutes, and starring the first ever monster of cinema. -
The First Vampire Film
The film "Nosferatu" is highly influential to the horror movie genre and the first film to feature a vampire. While the character is not Dracula, Count Orlok is highly influenced and some say even plagiarized Bram Stoker's Dracula. -
The Universal Monsters Are Created
Starting at the beginning of talking films in the early 1930's, the Universal monsters are born, starting with Dracula in 1931, followed by Frankenstein in the same year. The Mummy gets released in 1932 and The Freaks is released the same year. King Kong is released in 1933 and The Bride of Frankenstein got released in 1935 -
Godzilla Atacks
Godzilla is released in 1954 in Nagoya and November 3, 1954 nationwide. This movie is highly influential to horror movies today spawning a multitude of sequels and reboots including one that comes out next year -
The Original Slasher
Psycho is released June 16, 1960 and is the predecessor to the slasher movie subgenre of modern horror movies -
The 70s
In the 1970's horror movies hit their peak, what with the slasher subgenre increasing in number as wellas boundless classics getting their release.Movies of this decade include The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Jaws, The Exorcist, Black Christmas, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Carrie,The Hills Have Eyes, Alien, and The Amityville Horror -
The Decade of Slashers
The 80's brought upon a long 10 years of slasher movies with continuations of Halloween, The Omen, Alien, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre as well as the debut of Friday the Thirteenth, Nightmare on Elm Street, My Bloody Valentine, Pet Semetary, and Silent Night, Deadly Night. -
The 90's
In the 90s we get plenty of cuntinuations of some of the series mentioned before as well as the debuts of Jurassic Park, Misery, The Silence Of The Lambs, Leprechaun, Blade, The Blair Witch Project, and The Sixth Sense -
The Current Era
In the modern era of horror movies most in the genre are reboots, remakes, or sequels. There are some critically acclaimed originals such as Hereditary and A Quiet Place, but the reboots have been more succesful such as 2017's It
