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This Supercut Video Celebrates the Horror Genre’s 120th Anniversary
We often celebrate the anniversaries of our favorite horror films here on BD, but what about the entire genre at large? Did you know that 2016 marks the 120th anniversary of the very first horror movie? It was French filmmaker Georges Méliès who kicked things off with the silent short film The Haunted Castle, released in the winter of 1896. The rest, as they say, is history.
The folks over on YouTube channel Moon Film just sent along a supercut video that celebrates 120 years of the horror genre, shining the spotlight on 50 movies that are widely considered to be either influential, groundbreaking, or just plain the best of their kind. Classics like Nosferatu, Night of the Living Dead, and The Exorcist of course all made the cut, as did modern faves such as Saw, Let the Right One In, Paranormal Activity, and The Babadook.
As expected, there are countless films and even entire years left out (the video leaps from 1932’s Vampyr to 1958’s Horror of Dracula), but at just 2 1/2-minutes long, the video does provide a nice little overview of the genre’s most important films between 1896 and 2016. The most recent movie featured is Don’t Breathe, so it truly does begin at the beginning and end in the present.
Enjoy 120 Years of Horror Movies below.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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