Wednesday, November 1, 2017

A Timeline of Horror Movies-- Part 1: Meet Frank, Count and the Kong


From the October 29, 2017, Chicago Tribune  "A Timeline of Horror: Influential movies of the genre" by Jevon Phillips, LA Times.

Stephen King's current "It" is the highest grossing horror movie ever.

The first-ever known movie that can be classified as horror would be the 1896 French short silent film "Le Manoir du Diable" ("The House of the Devil").

here are 25 pivotal moments in horror:

1910--  "FRANKENSTEIN"   Boris Karloff 1931 movie better known, but the first to bring it to life was a 16-minute short film filmed 21 years earlier.

1922--  "NOSFERATU"--  Adapted from the book "Bram Stoker's Dracula."  We are introduced to Count Orlok, who drinks human blood.  Bela Lugosi's more-famous count with a cape comes in 1931.

1933--  "KING KONG"--  The original beauty tames the savage beast.

The Big Guy Falls, the Fancy Guy Drinks.  --CootFrank

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