14 Movie Scary Tropes That Predate Movies

What scares you today already scared your ancestors.
14 Movie Scary Tropes That Predate Movies

Cinema is barely 100-odd years old -- but fear is much older. If there's a scary story around, you can bet it was told before -- or even that it happened, if it's realistically possible. History, mythology, folklore -- it's everything there already. You only need to reach out, and you'll fish out something scary, ready for the movie treatment. You don't need to take our word for it, though. Just take a look at these.

Haunting Paranormal Encounters

The nopperabō freaks people out with its lack of face. - The ghosts in The Haunting of Bly Manor are creepy, aren’t they? So is the nopperabo, a simil
Source: Yokai.com

Ghost Tropes

The Hitchhiking Dead were already vanishing from horse-drawn carriages in the 1870s. The car was just a technological upgrade to these old tales --- w
Source: The Vanishing Hitchhiker, by Jan Harold Brunvand
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