Title: Was FRANKENSTEIN the First Horror Film?
David Rosinger - December 29, 2007 04:19 PM (GMT)
Rich Drees has a fascinating article on the 1910 production of FRANKENSTEIN by Thomas Edison’s film company.
FilmBuffOnLine Craig Blamer - December 29, 2007 07:40 PM (GMT)
I suppose it depends on your definition of horror... there was a couple adaptations of "Hunchback of Notre Dame" that beat "Frankenstein" to the screens by a few years.
Of course, Georges Méliès did a couple of horror shorts before the turn of the century.
But I think that Paul Wegener's The Student of Prague is considered the first feature length horror film.
Eric Cotenas - December 30, 2007 12:48 AM (GMT)
According to the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORROR MOVIES (error ridden as it is), the first horror film was a French film called LE MANOIR DU DIABLE from 1896 but it ran only 2 minutes.
Brian Camp - December 30, 2007 11:15 AM (GMT)
When Lumiere's film of a train coming into a station was first shown, people ran screaming from their seats, thinking an actual train was coming at them. So, maybe that was the first horror film. :D
Craig Blamer - December 30, 2007 06:51 PM (GMT)
Did Jamie Lee Curtis have an ancestor aboard?
Richard Harland Smith - December 31, 2007 10:21 PM (GMT)
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| Rich Drees has a fascinating article on the 1910 production of FRANKENSTEIN |
It'll be a cold day in hell when I take my film history from the guy who recorded "Disco Duck."
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - January 1, 2008 12:06 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Richard Harland Smith @ Dec 31 2007, 05:21 PM) |
It'll be a cold day in hell when I take my film history from the guy who recorded "Disco Duck." |
Don't be a cluck.