One of the first horror films was "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", German movie filmed in 1920. Film is silent, directed by Robert Wiene and is one of the best representative old horror films.

Stephen King - you all know about this writer. There are 105 films made apon his novels, and lots of them are horror movies. Carrie, Cujo, The Shining, The Dead Zone, Christine, Children of the Corn, Pet Sematary, and lots of other scary movies. "The Twilight Zone" 1st episode - "Gramma" was based upon Stephen King's novel, too.

One of the most famous horror festivals is New York City Horror Film Festival. Past winers on this Horror festival are: George A. Romero (2002), Tom Savini (2003), Tobe Hooper (2004), Roger Corman (2005) and Mick Garris (2006).

Bela Lugosi famous Dracula

Probably the most famous and oldest Dracula is Bela Lugosi. He played Count Dracula in 1931. in "Dracula" movie directed by Tod Browning. After that film, Bela Lugosi specialized Drakula and his friends in horror movies, so he played in "Mother Riley Meets the Vampire", "Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein", "Scared to Death", "Zombies on Broadway", "Voodoo Man", "The Return of the Vampire" and many others. Actor Martin Landau won an Oscar in 1994. for impersonating Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood" film.

Famous European Horror Films

Hi. Some well known European horror movies and probabby most popular horror films made in European countries are: Vampyros Lesbos, Bird with The Crystal Plumage, Short Night of the Glass Dolls, Black Sunday, Cannibal, Holocaust, Nekromantik, Suspiria, Fascination, Tomb of the Blind Dead, Bay of Blood, Love Letters of a Portugeuse Nun, Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Island of Death, Blood and Black Lace, Singapore Sling, Trauma, The Beyond, What Have They Done to, Solange, Bloodstained Shadow, Day of the Maniac, Faceless, and Zombie.

Since you are on this horror MyFilmo site, you probably love to wach horror films. You remember Jason, Fredie Kruger, ...

Vampires, zombies , monsters, serial killers, Drakula, and many fiction or crazy caracters are main horror films caracters. On this site you can find some info about famous and less famous horror movie directors, horror titles, production, and other stuff you might find interesting.

Brotherhood of the Wolf - horror film

Brotherhood of the Wolf (French horror film Le Pacte des loups) filmed in 2001 made big success in whole World. Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, and famous Monica Bellucci played excellent roles in this horror film. Movie was $29 million-budgeted and won Cesar Award for Best Costume Design (Dominique Borg), Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver in Sitges Film Festival (Christophe Gans), Best New Actress in Cabourg Romantic Film Festival (Emilie Dequenne) and Foreign Language Title of the Year on Home Entertainment Awards.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film written, directed and produced by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel. The film, the first in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, features Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Teri McMinn, William Vail, Edwin Neal and Paul A. Partain. The plot involves a group of friends, who embark on a road trip to rural Texas to visit the Hardesty family grave site, which, according to radio reports, had been gruesomely vandalized. On a detour to visit the Hardesty mansion, the friends fall victim to a family of cannibals, including the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has been considered one of the greatest horror films of all time, having significantly influenced the horror genre. Ridley Scott credited the film as an inspiration for his 1979 film Alien. Channel 4 called it "a triumph of style and atmosphere", and said The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is without doubt one of the most influential horror films of all time. John Carpenter's horror film Halloween incorporated the film's use of minimal blood and gore, and focused instead on the suspense. Debra Hill commented on the film saying, "We didn't want it to be gory. We wanted it to be like a jack-in-the box." The film was among TIME Magazine's top 25 horror films of all time. In 1990, the film was inducted into the Horror Hall of Fame, with Tobe Hooper accepting the award. New York City's Museum of Modern Art added the film to its permanent collection, validating its claim as legitimate, unconventional art. Comedian Patton Oswalt refers to the title as "The Greatest Movie Title Ever", because it perfectly describes the movie. In the realm of music, the punk rock band The Ramones mention the movie in their song "Chainsaw", on their 1976 LP The Ramones. Entertainment Weekly ranked the film #6 on their list of "The Top 50 Cult Films". Rebecca Ascher-Walsh believes that the film "paved the way for such future shock-franchises as the Halloweens and Evil Deads, and even The Blair Witch Project". In a Total Film poll conducted in 2005, the film was selected as the greatest horror film of all time.

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Edgar Allan Poe - Horror writter

@ Edgar Allan Poe is a great American writer. He wrote many poems and short stories, and lots of them can be sorted in horror genre. Many horror films were made based on Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems. Some of them are: "The Avenging Conscience; Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1914) based on "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Annabel Lee". "The Black Cat" movie also known like "The House of Doom" and "The Vanishing Body" is based on his short story. If you have read "Some Words with A Mummy" story, you will know plot in "The Mummy Lives" 1993 film.

“I'm everything you ever were afraid of”
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My Bloody Valentine

On Valentine's Day 20 years before, an explosion of methane gas took the lives of a group of miners working in the Hanniger Mine. Horror for Valentines Day. Directed by George Mihalka. Starring Keith Knight, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Paul Kelman.