The horror genre has evolved over the years, and it is easy to identify the horror movies that revolutionized the industry and drove these changes. The advent of horror really took off in the 1910s, with the silent era producing early Frankenstein stories , and the German Expressionist movement revolutionized the look of horror.

However, things changed drastically with the advent of sound in movies and the creation of Universal Studios' horror film slate . Since then, there have been prestige horror, monster movies, slashers, found-footage films, and self-referential horror. Each subgenre had at least one horror movie that helped change the genre .

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Cabinet of Dr Caligari

In the 1910s, German Expressionism turned its eyes to horror and releas

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