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Horror Films: Universal Studios
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Horror films branched out in all different directions in the 1960s and after, especially as the Production Code disappeared and film censorship was on the decline. Directors began to frankly portray horror in ordinary circumstances and seemingly-innocent settings. While Roger Corman was producing and directing his cheaply and quickly-made horror films in the early 60s, Hammer Studios in England was making Dracula and Frankenstein sequels (see above). Hammer rounded out their horror sequels with director Terence Fisher's The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961).
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The horror genre is nearly as old as film itself. The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by film pioneers such as Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the most notable being his 1896 Le Manoir du diable (aka "The House of the Devil") which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film. Another of his horror projects was the 1898 La Caverne maudite (aka "The Cave of the Demons", literally "the accursed cave"). [2] In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein, though no known prints survive.
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Soister, John T. Of Gods and monsters: a critical guide to Universal Studios' science fiction, horror, and mystery films, 1929-1939 / by John T. Soister. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1999. UCB Main PN1999.U57 S65 1999
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Strange horror film from tiny Majestic Studios, using actors and sets borrowed from Universal. The story is about a series of deaths believed caused by vampires - the great cast includes Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Frazer, Lionel Belmore and Dwight Frye. $14.95
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The most depraved, disturbing and daring horror film of the last 10 years. Ichi has set a forbidden standard that no other filmmaker or studio has since had the guts to match. The gorehound epic is one part hallucinogenic nightmare, one part parody and one part serious social criticism of the time. It’s confrontational with powerful performances, artistically beautiful like a desolate Blade Runner in hell, politically incorrect and not for the timid.
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