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Newman later described Cat People and the other horror productions by Lewton such as I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Seventh Victim (1943) as "polished, doom-haunted, poetic" while film critic Roger Ebert the films Lewton produced in the 1940s were "landmark[s] in American movie history". [55] Several horror films of the 1940s borrowed ...
This is a list of lists of horror films. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between horror and other genres (including action , thriller , and science fiction films ). By decade
0–9. List of horror films of 1960; List of horror films of 1961; List of horror films of 1962; List of horror films of 1963; List of horror films of 1964
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White Zombie is considered the first feature-length zombie film and has been described as the archetype and model of all zombie movies. [2] [3] A number of Hollywood actors made a name for themselves in horror films of this decade, in particular Bela Lugosi (Dracula, 1931) and Boris Karloff (Frankenstein, 1931).
Shortly after An Illustrated History of the Horror Film's release, R. C. Dale of Film Quarterly called it "the best history of the horror film now available in English." [1] Dale noted that he disagreed with many of Clarens's evaluations, including Clarens's dismissal of Hammer Horror and praise of recent Mexican horror films, but concluded, "none of these differences of opinion lessens my ...
Horror in Silent Films: A Filmography, 1896–1929. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0751-4. Munden, Kenneth White, ed. (1997). American Film Institute Catalog, Feature Films 1921–1930. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20969-9. Paszylk, Bartłomiej (2009). The pleasure and pain of cult horror films: an historical survey ...
The Dictionary of Film Studies defines the horror film as representing “disturbing and dark subject matter, seeking to elicit responses of fear, terror, disgust, shock, suspense, and, of course, horror from their viewers.” [2] In the chapter The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s from Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (2002), film critic Robin Wood declared that the commonality between ...