2. 1890s-1920s
 Lon Chaney, Sr. in The Phantom of the Opera
 1831 - The first monster appeared in a horror film, Quasimodo, the
hunchback of Notre-Dame who had appeared in Victor Hugo's
novel, Notre-Dame de Paris
 The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the
silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges Méliès in the late
1890s.
 1906 - Alice Guy's Esmeralda
 The Hunchback (1909),
 1910 - The Love of a Hunchback
 1911 - Notre-Dame de Paris

3. 1930s-1940s
 During the early period of talking pictures, the American
Movie studio Universal Pictures began a successful
Gothic.
 1931 - Tod Browning's Dracula
 1932 - The Mummy
 1933 - The Invisible Man
 1935 - Bride of Frankenstein, again directed by
Whale, and 1939 - Son of Frankenstein.
 1941 - The Wolf Man

4. 1950s-1960s
 With advances in technology, the tone of horror films shifted from the Gothic
towards contemporary concerns. Two sub-genres began to emerge: the
horror-of-armageddon film and the horror-of-the-demonic film.
 A stream of usually low-budget productions featured humanity overcoming
threats from "outside": alien invasions and deadly mutations The Hollywood
directors and producers sometimes found ample opportunity for audience
exploitation, with
 1951 - The Thing from Another World, Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body
Snatchers
 In 1956 they managed to channel the paranoia of the Cold War into
atmospheric creepiness.
 Filmmakers continued to merge elements of science fiction and horror over
the following decades. This was considered a "pulp masterpiece" of the era.
 1959 - The Incredible Shrinking Man

5. 1970s-1980s
 The end of the Production Code of America in 1964
 success of Rosemary's Baby, led to the release of more films
with occult themes in the 1970s.
 1973 - The Exorcist
 Scores of horror films in which the Devil represented the
supernatural evil, often by impregnating women or possessing
children.
 "Evil children" and reincarnation became popular subjects.
 1977 - Audrey Rose

6. 1990s
 In the first half of the 1990s, the genre continued many of the themes from
the 1980s.
 The slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween
and Child's Play
 1991 - Silence of the Lambs
 1992 - Candyman
 1993 - The Dark Half
 1994 - New Nightmare
 1995 - In the Mouth of Madness

7. 2000s
 The start of the 2000s saw a quiet period for the genre.
 The release of an extended version of The Exorcist in September
2000 was successful despite the film having been available on
home video for years.
 Franchise films such as Freddy vs. Jason also made a stand in
theaters.
 2000 - Final Destination
 The Jeepers Creepers series was also successful.
 Films such as Orphan, Wrong Turn, Cabin Fever, House of 1000
Corpses,