Horror film

A horror film is a film that intends to elicit fear and/or disgust in the audience. Often, horror films fall into one or more genres: the paranormal (ghosts, spirits, vampires, etc.), mystery, and "slasher" films.

List Horror films 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

Top  Grossing Horror Films of All Time
 1890s

​​1895

1896
 * The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

1897
 * Le Manoir du diable
 * Une nuit terrible
 * Conjuring a Lady at Robert Houdin's

1898
 * The Haunted Castle
 * The Bewitched Inn
 * The X-Rays
 * The Alchemist's Hallucination

1899
 * Photographing a Ghost
 * The Accurdsed Cavern
 * The Astronomer's Dream
 * The Cavalier's Dream

1900s 
 * Cléopâtre
 * The Miser's Doom
 * Le Diable au couvent
 * Raising Spirits

1900

1901 1902
 * Faust and Marguerite
 * Chinese Magic (Yellow Peril)
 * Bluebeard
 * The Haunted Curiosity Shop

1903
 * Les Trésors de satan
 * Le Diable géant ou Le miracle de la madonne (The Devil and the statue)

1905
 * Le Monstre
 * Le Chaudron Infernal (The Infernal Boilling)
 * Le-Cake-walf inernal (The Inernal Cake Walk)

1906 1907
 * Le Maison Noir (The Black Imp)
 * La Maision hantée
 * Les Quatre cents farces du diable

1908
 * Satan s'amuse (Satan at Play)

1909
 * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1010s  
 * The Sealed Room

1910 1912
 * Frankenstein (1910)

1913
 * Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)
 * Ls Système du Docteur Goudron et du Professeur Plume
 * The Mask of Horror
 * The Spider's Web

1914
 * Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)
 * The Student of Prague
 * The Skull
 * The Werewolf (Lost film)

1915
 * The Avenging Conscience

1916
 * Der Golem (Lost film)
 * Les Vampires (serial)
 * The Haunting Fear
 * Life Without Soul

1917
 * The Crimson Stain Mystery
 * Haevnens nat
 * A Night of Horror

1918
 * Fear
 * Der Golem und die Tanzerin


 * Alraune

1919

'1920s 
 * The Beetle
 * Unheimliche Geschichten

1920 1921
 * Anita
 * The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
 * Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)
 * Dr Jakyll and Mr. Hyde (1920/IIfilm)
 * Genuine
 * The Golem: How He Came into the World
 * The Head of Janus
 * The Penalty
 * II Mostro di Frankensein (The Monster of Frankensein)

1922
 * Der Muede Tod
 * The Haunted Castle
 * Korkarlen
 * Dracula's Death

1923 1924*The Hands of Orlac 1925*The Monster
 * A Blind Bargain
 * The Ghost Breaker
 * Haxan
 * The Headless Horseman
 * Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
 * One Exciting Night
 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
 * The Last Moment
 * Waxworks
 * The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
 * Wolf Blood