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A horror movie is a movie made to scare the viewer. The main stories of horror movies often involve supernatural forces or characters of evil origin. Horror movies are often confused with thrillers, which are similar.
Popular horror movie characters usually include monsters. Early horror movies often took ideas from classic literature, such as The Mummy, Dracula and The Wolf Man.
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Comedy horror movies
Those are movies which blends horror and comic elements in its plot. Unlike common, traditional horror movies, in this movie genre, the viewer may be scared and laugh at the same time. Most of time, the type of humour used in these movies is black comedy.
Some examples includes Zombieland (2009), The Raven (1963) and Shaun of The Dead (2004).
Notable horror film directors
- Dario Argento
- Mario Bava
- John Carpenter
- Roger Corman
- Wes Craven
- David Cronenberg
- Terence Fisher (directed for Hammer Films)
- Lucio Fulci
- Tobe Hooper
- F. W. Murnau
- Hideo Nakata
- George A. Romero
- Leslie Stevens
- James Whale
Notable horror film actors
- Lon Chaney and his son Lon Chaney, Jr.
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Peter Cushing
- Robert Englund
- Boris Karloff
- Christopher Lee
- Peter Lorre
- Bela Lugosi
- Donald Pleasance
- Vincent Price
Images for kids
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Elsa Lanchester played the Monster's Bride in Bride of Frankenstein. Her conical hairdo and white lightning-trace steaks on each side, has become an iconic symbol of the character.
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Lon Chaney, Sr. and Mary Philbin in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera.
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In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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Gloria Holden as the Countess in Dracula's Daughter
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The visual style of German Expressionist films included deliberately distorted forms and shadows as seen here in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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