Horror Films

The material in the link above is a description of Horror films from Wikipedia. It explains what film of horror genre is, and put the horror films into a few categories, like inspiration from characters and stories from classic literature and gives some examples. This material also analyses the history of horror films. The horror genre is nearly as old as film itself. "The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by film pioneers such as Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the most notable being his 1896 Le Manoir du diable which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film."