List of horror films

The list of horror films gives a chronological overview of productions that have been made in this genre since the beginning of film history . The list is divided into sections of ten years each. When using it, it should be noted that the majority of the films listed overlap with related genres from the field of fantasy such as science fiction , fantasy and mystery , but also with genres such as crime films and comedy .

Lists after decades

• List of horror films from the 1920s
• List of horror films from the 1930s
• List of horror films from the 1940s
• List of horror films from the 1950s
• List of horror films from the 1960s
• List of horror films from the 1970s
• List of horror films from the 1980s
• List of horror films from the 1990s
• List of horror movies from the 2000s
• List of horror films of the 2010s
• List of horror films of the 2020s

1896

title	Director	Country of production
Une nuit terrible	Georges Méliès	France

1897

title	Director	Country of production
The X-Ray Fiend	George Albert Smith	United States

1898

title	Director	Country of production
La tentation de Saint Antoine	Georges Méliès	France

1899

title	Director	Country of production
Cléopâtre	Georges Méliès	France
Le diable au couvent	Georges Méliès	France

1900

title	Director	Country of production
An artist's dream	Edwin S. Porter	United States
Faust and Marguerite	Edwin S. Porter	United States
The Mystic Swing	Edwin S. Porter	United States
Uncle Josh at a Spooky Hotel	Edwin S. Porter	United States
Uncle Josh's Nightmare	Edwin S. Porter	United States

1901

title	Director	Country of production
L'homme à la tete en caoutchouc	Georges Méliès	France
Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost	Walter R. Booth	United Kingdom

1903

title	Director	Country of production
Le chaudron infernal	Georges Méliès	France
Le monstre	Georges Méliès	France

1907

title	Director	Country of production
Satan s'amuse	Segundo de Chomón	France

1910

title	Director	Country of production
Dorian Gray's portrait	Axel Strøm	Denmark
Frankenstein	J. Searle Dawley	United States

1911

title	Director	Country of production
The miller and his child	Walter Friedmann	Austria

1912

title	Director	Country of production
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Lucius Henderson	United States

1913

title	Director	Country of production
The other	Max Mack	German Empire
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Herbert Brenon	United Kingdom
The Eisbraut	Stellan Rye	German Empire
The student from Prague	Stellan Rye	German Empire

1914

title	Director	Country of production
The Baskerville Dog	Rudolf Meinert	German Empire
Svengali	Luise Kolm , Jakob Fleck	Austria
A Venetian night	Max Reinhardt	German Empire

1915

title	Director	Country of production
The mysterious wanderer	William Wauer	German Empire
The golem	Henrik Galeen	German Empire
The dead awaken	Adolf Gärtner	German Empire
And knowledge is death	Walter Schmidthässler	German Empire
And you should wander restlessly ...	Richard Oswald	German Empire

1916

title	Director	Country of production
Hoffmann's stories	Richard Oswald	German Empire
Homunculus	Otto Rippert	German Empire
The man without a head	Louis Neher	German Empire
Nights of horror	Arthur Robison	German Empire
The Phantom of the Opera	Ernst Matray	German Empire
Theophrastus Paracelsus	Joseph Delmont	German Empire

1917

title	Director	Country of production
fear	Robert Wiene	German Empire
Captured soul	Rudolf Biebrach	German Empire
The ghost hour	Urban Gad	German Empire
The golem and the dancer	Paul Wegener	German Empire
The sea monster	Alfréd Deésy	Austria

1918

title	Director	Country of production
Mandrake	Michael Curtiz , Edmund Fritz	Austria
Mandrake, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne	Eugen Illés , Josef Klein	German Empire
The eyes of the mummy Ma	Ernst Lubitsch	German Empire
The lady, the devil and the tasting mummy	Rudolf Biebrach	German Empire
The Flying Dutchman	Hans Neumann	German Empire
Queen of Spades	Arthur Wellin	German Empire
The enchanted castle	Otto Rippert	German Empire

1919

title	Director	Country of production
The ancestress	Luise Kolm , Jakob Fleck	Austria
Mandrake and the Golem	Nils Chrisander	Germany
Cagliostro's dead hand	Nils Chrisander	Germany
The green vampire	William Kahn	Germany
The boy in blue	Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau	Germany
Lilith and Ly	Erich Kober	Austria
The plague in Florence	Otto Rippert	Germany
The devil's church	Hans Mierendorff , Friedrich Degener	Germany
Scary stories	Richard Oswald	Germany
madness	Conrad Veidt	Germany

See also

• List of ghost movies
• List of slasher films
• List of splatter films
• List of vampire films
• List of werewolf films
• Zombie movie

Web links

• Film archive of the Fantasy Filmfest
• Kabel1's top 20 horror films ( January 25, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive )
• Collection of around 3000 horror films

Individual evidence

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