Horror

Horror

The genre of horror is one of the oldest: it originates from folklore, religious tradition and the deep fears of the human soul. The main themes of the horror genre are death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic. Monsters, witches, vampires, assassins, werewolves and ghosts. Its most popular subgenres are psychological horror and supernatural horror. In Europe, horror arises from the literature of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Euripides, Plutarch and Pliny the Younger were the first writers of the horror genre. Even in the Bible, for example in the Apocalypse, we can find some such elements. The oldest and strongest emotion of humanity is fear, and the oldest and strongest type of fear is fear of the unknown.

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  • Cathnafola - A Paranormal Investigation

    Movie

    Documentary, horror, by Jason Figgis, USA, 2014.
    In *Cathnafola*, everything begins when renowned paranormal investigator Chris Halton of Haunted Earth UK receives footage filmed by three teenagers at the ruins of Cathnafola House in Ireland. Determined to unearth the truth behind the location’s ...

  • Nosferatu

    Movie

    When a young real estate agent, Thomas Hutter, goes to the castle to close a deal, Orlok is attracted by his blood and decides to follow him to his hometown. The arrival of the count causes a series of mysterious deaths and spreads panic among the inhabitants.

    Murnau, through evocative images an...

  • Lemuri

    Movie

    Horror, Gianni Virgadaula, Italy, 2009.
    Germany 1228, Wolf Road. Baron Ludwig von Reder, the young wife of a widower Lusilla Helm, lives in an old stone farmhouse with his faithful servant, the lame and ambiguous Balduin, who secretly undermines the girls of the village and kills them. Von Reder ...

  • Monstre

    Movie

    Horror, by Valerio Graglia, Italia, 2022.
    Flavio is an actor who said no to underpaid roles and other people's ambitions. He now has a regular job but for the last time he let himself be carried away by Valerio's latest idea. Together with Camilla, on the first day of filming Flavio will find him...

  • Remember to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day

    Movie

    Horror comedy, by Matteo Scarfò, Italy, 2023.
    Two crooks, with serious financial problems, decide to commit a robbery on the Lord's Day inside a house inhabited by an elderly married couple. They wait until the two elderly people have gone to Sunday mass to break into the house. What they will fi...

  • The Manster

    Movie

    Horror, Science Fiction, by George P. Breakston, United States, 1959.
    An American journalist stationed in Japan is sent to interview an eccentric Japanese scientist who is conducting bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory. When the scientist realizes that the hapless correspondent is the ...

  • Death Screams

    Movie

    Horror, directed by David Nelson, United States, 1982.
    "Death Screams" opens with the scene of a brutal murder of a young couple who are having sexual intercourse by a river. A few days later, a group of college students, including Bob and Kathy, return to their small hometown for the summer vaca...

  • Faust

    Movie

    Horror, by F. W. Murnau, German, 1926.
    Faust is an elderly scholar who has lost faith in life. He is defeated by his inability to help others and by his awareness of his own mortality. One day, he meets Mephistopheles, who offers him a pact: in exchange for his soul, Mephistopheles will give him ...

  • The Werewolf of Washington

    Movie

    Horror, comedy, by Milton Moses Ginsberg, USA, 1973.
    Jack Whittier is a reporter posted to Washington D.C. as correspondent from Budapest. Jack is infected by a werewolf during a party and begins to transform into a werewolf. Meanwhile, he tries to hide his new condition and keep his job as a jou...

  • The Brain That Wouldn't Die

    Movie

    Horror, science fiction, by Joseph Green, United States, 1962.
    Dr. Bill Cortner saves a patient who was pronounced dead, but the senior surgeon, Bill's father, condemns his son's unorthodox transplant methods and theories. While driving to his family home, Bill and his attractive future wife Jan ...

  • Vampyr

    Movie

    Horror, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany, 1932.
    Late in the evening, Allan Gray arrives at an inn near the town of Courtempierre and rents a room to sleep. Gray is suddenly disturbed by an old man, who enters the room and leaves a square package on the table: "To be opened on my death" is written ...

  • Halloween

    Movie

    Horror, by John Carpenter, United States, 1978.
    An independent film shot on a very small budget, it grossed over $ 80 million worldwide at the time. It is the most successful slasher movie and one of the 5 most profitable films in the history of cinema, which has become a cult with countless sequ...

  • 1st Bite

    Movie

    Horror, romantic, by Hunt Hoe, Canada, 2006.
    Gus is a charming man who works as a cook in an oriental restaurant in Montreal. His boss sends him to a remote island in Thailand to meet a master of Zen cuisine and improve the quality of his dishes. There he meets a mysterious woman named Lake who l...

  • A Page Of Madness

    Movie

    Drama, horror, by Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926.
    A page of madness is an independent film shot on a nearly non-existent budget and then lost for forty-five years. Fortunately the director rediscovered it in his archive in 1971. It is a film made by a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, the S...

  • Beast from Haunted Cave

    Movie

    Horror, Crime, by Monte Hellman, United States, 1959.
    A group of criminals, led by the ruthless Alexander Ward, devises a plan to steal gold bars from a bank vault in Deadwood, South Dakota. Ward sends one of his henchmen, Marty Jones, to cause an explosion in a nearby gold mine; the detonation w...

  • Attack of the giant leeches

    Movie

    Horror, Sci-fi, by Bernard L. Kowalski, United States, 1959.
    An independent production by Roger Corman's factory, it is one of the "creature films" produced in the 1950s in response to fears of the cold war. In the Florida Everglades, a pair of giant leeches live in an underwater cave. They begin...

  • Haxan

    Movie

    Documentary, by Benjamin Christensen, Sweden, 1922.
    Desecration of tombs, torture, demon-possessed nuns and witches' sabbath: Haxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages is an incredibly original and unconventional film that has become legendary over time. Between documentary and dramatic fiction, the fil...

  • A Bucket of Blood

    Movie

    Comedy, Crime, by Roger Corman, United States, 1959.
    Produced on a budget of $ 50,000, it was shot in five days by low-budget B movie king Roger Corman. One night, after hearing the words of Maxwell H. Brock, a poet who performs at The Yellow Door cafe, the obtuse waiter Walter Paisley returns ho...

  • The Wasp Woman

    Movie

    Horror, Sci-fi, by Roger Corman, United States, 1959.
    Scientist Eric Zinthrop is fired from his job on a honey farm for using wasps to experiment with him. The owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin, is upset when the sales of her company start to decline: her customers know that she ...

  • The Terror

    Movie

    Horror, by Roger Corman, United States, 1963.
    Lieutenant Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), a French soldier, loses contact with his unit and is forced to wander alone near the Baltic Sea. While searching for his regiment, he spots Helene (Sandra Knight), a mysterious beauty, walking alone. Enchanted, Du...

  • Dementia

    Movie

    Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
    It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ...

  • The last man on earth

    Movie

    Horror, sci-fi, by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow, United States / Italy, 1964.
    Unnoticed at the time of its release and considered today a masterpiece, it is the first and best film adaptation of Richard Matheson's book of the same name, released in 1954. Shot back in 1964, in Rome, with an Italia...

  • Shadow

    Movie

    Short film, mystery, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy.
    Lumi is a ten year old child with no friends, who lives with her grandmother tele-dependent: since feeling lonely, she creates an imaginary friend in her shadow... Freely adapted from "Shadow" by Edgar Allan Poe.

    LANGUAGE: English
    SUBTITLES: Italian

  • The cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    Movie

    Horror, fantasy, by Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920.
    The symbolic film of cinematic expressionism. Francis tells a story to a man: in 1830, in a small town, a guy named Caligari, plays the barker at the fair to present the attraction of him, a sleepwalker that he holds under hypnosis in a coffin. The...