List of horror films of the 1920s explained

A list of horror films released in the 1920s.

List

Horror films released in the 1920s

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
	1920
	Anita		Lola Urban-Kneidinger, Wilhelm Klitsch, Julius Strobl	Austria
	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari			Germany
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde				^[1]
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde			United States	^[2]
	Genuine			Germany
		Paul Wegener, Karl Boese		Germany	^[3]
	The Head of Janus			Germany	Lost film
	The Penalty	Wallace Worsley, Sr.		United States	^[4]
	The Monster of Frankenstein	Eugenio Testa	Umberto Guarracino	Italy	Lost film
	1921
	Destiny			Germany
	Dracula's Death	Ka'roly Lajthay	Erik Vanko,Lene Myl	Hungary	Lost film
	The Haunted Castle		Arnold Korft, Lothar Mehnert	Germany	^[5] ^[6]
	The Phantom Carriage^[7]			Sweden	^[8]
	1922
	A Blind Bargain	Wallace Worsley, Sr.	Lon Chaney, Raymond McKee, Jacqueline Logan, Fontaine La Rue	United States	^[9] Lost film
	The Ghost Breaker			United States	Lost film
	Häxan			Sweden	^[10]
	The Headless Horseman	Edward D. Venturini		United States
	Nosferatu			Germany
	One Exciting Night			United States
	1923
	The Hunchback of Notre Dame			United States
	The Last Moment	J. Parker Read		United States
	Old Baron of Rautakylä	Carl Fager	Einar Rinne, Adolf Lindfors, Naimi Kari	Finland	^[11]
	While Paris Sleeps	Maurice Tourneur	Lon Chaney,Mildred Manning	United States
	1924
	The Hands of Orlac			Germany Austria
	Waxworks			Germany
	1925
	The Monster			United States
	The Phantom of the Opera			United States	^[12]
	Wolfblood: A Tale of the Forest	George Chesebro, Bruce M. Mitchell	Marguerite Clayton, Ray Hanford	United States	^[13]
	1926
	A Page of Madness			Japan
	The Bat			United States
	The Bells			United States
	Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage			Germany
	Maciste all'inferno			Italy	^[14]
	The Magician			United States	^[15]
	The Student of Prague	Henrik Galeen		Germany
	1927
	The Cat and the Canary			United States	^[16]
	The Gorilla			United States	Lost film
	London After Midnight			United States	Known in the UK as The Hypnotist Lost film
	The Unknown			United States	^[17]
	The Wizard			United States	Lost film
	1928
	Alraune	Henrik Galeen		Germany
	The Ape	Beverly C. Rule	Gladys Walton, Ruth Stonehouse, Basil Wilson, Bradley Barke	United States
	The Fall of the House of Usher		Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance	France	^[18]
	The Fall of the House of Usher	James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber	Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson	United States
	The Terror			United States	^[19]
	The Man Who Laughs			United States	^[20]
	The Last Warning	Paul Leni	Laura La Plante,Montagu Love	United States

See also

• Lists of horror films

References

Bibliography

• Book: Clark, Mark . 2004 . Smirk, Sneer, and Scream: Great Acting in Horror Cinema . . 0-7864-1932-6 .
• Book: Hallenbeck, Bruce G. . 2009 . Comedy-horror films: a chronological history, 1914-2008 . McFarland . 978-0-7864-3332-2 .
• Book: Hardy . Phil . Phil Hardy (journalist) . 1995 . The Overlook Film Encyclopedia . 3 . . 0-87951-624-0 .
• Book: Kinnard, Roy . 1999 . Horror in Silent Films: A Filmography, 1896–1929 . Jefferson, NC . McFarland . 978-0-7864-0751-4 .
• Book: Munden . Kenneth White . 1997 . American Film Institute Catalog, Feature Films 1921–1930 . . 0-520-20969-9 .
• Book: Paszylk, Bartłomiej . 2009 . The pleasure and pain of cult horror films: an historical survey . McFarland . 978-0-7864-3695-8 .
• Book: Sadoul . Georges . Morris . Peter . 1972 . Dictionary of films . . registration . 0-520-02152-5 .
• Book: Worland, Rick . 2007 . The horror film: an introduction . . 978-1-4051-3902-1 .

External links

• Horror films of the 1920s on Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
2. Web site: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Wollstein, Hans J..
3. Web site: Der Golem. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Wiener, Tom.
4. Web site: The Penalty. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Wiener, Tom.
5. Web site: Schloss Vogelod. Allmovie. Erickson, Hal. August 7, 2011.
6. Web site: Haunted Castle. Allmovie. DVD. November 28, 2011. https://archive.today/20120718093440/http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/release/the-haunted-castle-e213864. July 18, 2012. dead.
7. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 228. .
8. Kinnard, Roy (1999). Horror in Silent Films: A Filmography, 1896–1929. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. .
9. Web site: A Blind Bargain. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
10. Web site: Häxan. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
11. Web site: Rautakylän vanha parooni. Mykkäelokuvat. October 24, 2021. fi.
12. Web site: The Phantom of the Opera. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Brenner, Paul.
13. Web site: Wolf Blood. Classic-Horror.com. July 25, 2011. Richardson, Thomas E..
14. Web site: Peters . Rebecca . Maciste all'inferno, 1926 . San Francisco Silent Film Festival . December 1, 2014.
15. Web site: Magician. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
16. Web site: The Cat and the Canary. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
17. Web site: The Unknown. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
18. Web site: The Fall of the House of Usher. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
19. Web site: Dirks . Tim . Horror Films . . December 1, 2014.
20. Web site: PopMatters: The Man Who Laughs . 2007-01-11 . PopMatters Staff. popmatters.com .