List of horror films: Pre 1920

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Horror films List by year Pre-1920 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s   2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010s

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A list of horror films released before the 1920s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
1890
none
1891
none
1892
none
1893
none
1894
none
1895
none
1896
Le Manoir du diable	Georges Méliès	Jeanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Une nuit terrible	Georges Méliès
1897
L` Auberge ensorcelée	Georges Méliès
Le Cabinet de Méphistophélès	Georges Méliès
L` Hallucination de l'alchimiste	Georges Méliès
The Haunted Castle	George Albert Smith
The X-Ray Fiend	George Albert Smith
1898
The Cavalier's Dream	Edwin S. Porter
La Caverne maudite	Georges Méliès
Photographing a Ghost	George Albert Smith
1899
Cléopâtre	Georges Méliès
Le Diable au convent	Georges Méliès
The Haunted House
The Miser's Doom	Walter R. Booth
Un bon lit	Georges Méliès
Évocation spirite	Georges Méliès

[edit] 1900s

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
1900
The Prince of Darkness
The Troublesome Fly
1901
none
1902
A Fight with Sledgehammers	Dicky Winslow
Maria Marten: or, The Murder at the Red Barn	Dicky Winslow
Les Trésors de satan	Georges Méliès
1903
1904
none
1905
The Fairy of the Black Rocks
1906
La Maison hantée	Segundo de Chomón
Les Quatre cents farces du diable	Georges Méliès
1907
none
1908
none
1909
The Sealed Room	D.W. Griffith	Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett

[edit] 1910s

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
1910
Frankenstein	J. Searle Dawley	Augustus Phillips, Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle
1911
none
1912
Le Systeme du Doctuer Goudron et du Professeur Plume	Maurice Tourneur	Renee Sylvaire, Henri Gouget
The Spider's Web	Van Dyke Brooke, Maurice Costello	Charles Eldridge, Earle Williams, Hal Wilson
1913
The Student of Prague	Stellan Rye, Paul Wegener	Paul Wegener, John Gottowt
The Skull	William V. Ranous	Florence Turner, Leo Delaney, Edwin R. Phillips
1914
The Avenging Conscience	D.W. Griffith
1915
Der Golem (The Golem)	Henrik Galeen	Paul Wegener, Carl Ebert		shown in the USA as The Monster of Fate
The Haunting Fear	Robert G. Vignola	Alice Hollister, Henry Hallam, Anna Q. Nilsson
1916
Hævnens nat	Benjamin Christensen	Peter Fjelstrup, Charles Wilken, Karen Caspersen
The Kiss of a Vampire		Kenneth Hunter, Virginia Pearson
1917
none
1918
none
1919
The Beetle	Alexander Butler	Maudie Dunham, Hebden Foster, Fred Morgan
Unheimliche Geschichten	Richard Oswald	Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt

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