This document provides a history of horror films from the silent era to modern day. It discusses the origins of German Expressionist films in the 1910s and influential titles like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Iconic 1930s films such as Frankenstein and Dracula brought sound and adapted classic novels. The 1940s saw the rise of werewolf, cat, and monster films. Horror evolved further in subsequent decades with mutant creatures in the 1950s, ghosts in the 1960-70s, zombies and satanism. The 1970s were a peak for British Hammer Horror films. Slasher movies emerged in the 1980s alongside fears around topics like terrorism. Gore and torture films became more extreme starting in the