Early horror films  

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In 1963, Roger Corman directed The Raven, a horror-comedy written by Richard Matheson very loosely based on the poem, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. It stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a trio of rival sorcerers.

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Early horror films often drew inspiration from characters and stories from classic literature, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Later horror films, in contrast, often drew inspiration from the insecurities of life since World War Two, giving rise to the three distinct, but related, subgenres of the horror-of-personality film, the horror-of-Armageddon film, and the horror-of-the-demonic film. The last subgenre may be seen as a modernized transition from the earlier horror films, expanding on the earlier emphasis on supernatural agents that bring horror to the world.

List of silent horror films

1895

• The Execution of Mary Stuart

1896

• Le Manoir du diable

1903

• The Infernal Boiling Pot

1909

• The Sealed Room

1910

• Frankenstein

1913

• The Student of Prague (1913 film)

1915

• The Golem (a.k.a. The Monster of Fate)

1919

• Eerie Tales

1920

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Genuine
• The Golem: How He Came Into the World

1921

• The Haunted Castle

1922

• Häxan
• Nosferatu

1924

• The Hands of Orlac
• Waxworks

1925

• The Monster
• The Phantom of the Opera

1926

• The Bat
• The Bells
• The Student of Prague

1927

• The Cat and the Canary
• London After Midnight
• Unknown

1928

• The Fall of the House of Usher (French version)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (American version)

1929

• Haunted House
• The Skeleton Dance