The document provides a timeline of the history of horror films from the 1890s to the 2000s. It highlights some of the earliest films featuring supernatural events in the late 1890s and early 1900s. In the 1930s-1940s, Universal Pictures had success with Gothic horror films like Dracula and Frankenstein. The 1950s-1960s saw the emergence of science fiction horror films dealing with threats like alien invasions. The 1970s featured many films with occult and demonic themes like The Exorcist. Slasher films became popular in the 1980s and 1990s, while the 2000s saw remakes and sequels to classic franchises as well as new independent horror films.

1. Time Line
History of Horror

2. 1890s–1920s
• See also: List of horror films of the 1890s, List of horror films of the
1900s, List of horror films of the 1910s, and List of horror films of
the 1920s
• Lon Chaney, Sr. in The Phantom of the Opera
• The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the
silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges Méliès in the late
1890sIn the early 20th century,
• 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 (1831).
• Films featuring Quasimodo included Alice Guy's Esmeralda (1906),
• The Hunchback (1909),
• The Love of a Hunchback
• (1910) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1911).

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

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
• gimmicks such as 3-D and "Percepto" (producer William Castle's pseudo-
electric-shock technique used for
• The Thing from Another World (1951) Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body
Snatchers
• (1956), 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. Considered a "pulp masterpiece" of the era
was
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

5. 1970-1980s
• 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.
• The Exorcist (1973)
• 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.
• Audrey Rose (1977)

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
• New Nightmare (1994
• Silence of the Lambs (1991).
• In the Mouth of Madness (1995),
• The Dark Half (1993)
• Candyman (1992),

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.
• Final Destination (2000)
• The Jeepers Creepers series was also successful.
• Films such as Orphan, Wrong Turn, Cabin Fever, House of
1000 Corpses,