Horror films are configured to frighten and panic, to appeal our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finish. The earliest horror films were Gothic in style that means that they were usually set in spooky old mansions, castles, dark and shadowy locales. The main character of these films were the “unknown”, human, supernatural creatures like vampires, devils, ghosts, monsters, demons, evil spirits, werewolves to the unseen bearing of evil. The lead off horror movie, was only about two minutes long created by the French filmmaker Georges Melies The Devil’s Castle” (Le Manoir du Diable)(1896) which contained some elements of later on vampire films.
The most influential of the early films was “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari “Das Kabinet des Doktor Cligari – 1919) the Germany’s silent expressionistic watershed classic. In the early 1900′s the German film Der Golem was the first horror-themed film which achieved great success. In the early 1930′s Universal Studios created a modern film genre and brought to the screen the successful movies like “Dracula“, “Frankenstein” and “The Mummy“.
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