It is believed that 'Le manoir du diable' was the first ever horror movie made. The title means 'the house of the devil' and it's a 2 minute video containing Methistopheles summoning ghosts and gouls. There is an ongoing argument that is that another horror film, the execution of Mary Stuart, was also the first horror film. This is just a 18 second film of Mary Stuart being executed. Both films were estimated to have been filmed in 1895-1896.
The first ever full length horror film was a german film and was made in 1920. This film was called 'The Golem' and it is about a Jew that creates a clay monster to save other jews from persecution. Although this is the first full length horror film, the first one in America was the classic story 'Frankenstein' and it was filmed in 1931 and this was based on Mary Shelley's novel. The film was classed as horror purely because it involves a non-human monster that likes to eat people and ruin lives. Although me and my group do not wish to involve a monster in our film we do think that anything we want to do is achievable by knowing about Frankenstein.
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