18 Horror Movies That Did It First

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18 Horror Movies That Did It First

From the first ever werewolf in a film to the first time the censor boards finally allowed American audiences to see a flushing toilet (because we deserve it!), here are some of history's great horror movie firsts.

I would simply choose not to enter that house

18 Horror Movies That Did It First- The first horror narrative was a short film called Le Manoir du Diable (The House of the Devil) from 1896 by Geor
Source: Mental Floss

Probably no weird racial undertones to see here

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first zombie movie was the 1932 White Zombie, featuring a woman being turned into a zombie by a “voodoo maste
Source: Syfy

The eyes of the world are upon you.

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - Fredric March was the first actor to win an Oscar for a horror movie with his performance in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H
Source: L.A. Times

I knew there was something up with cat people

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first significant jump scare as we know it today happened in Cat People (1942). This specific moment is also
Source: /film

Thanks for Letting This Genie Out of The Bottle, Really

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first creepy doll in a horror movie was in the 1945 anthology Dead of Night. Martin Scorsese has said that it

The eyes of the world are upon you.

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first slasher horror movie was the 1971 A Bay of Blood. The Italian movie, along with 1974’s movies The Texas
Source: Gizmodo

Another Non-Foulmouthed-First for ‘The Exorcist’

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first horror feature film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards was The Exorcist in 1974.

Cannibal Holocaust

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first ever found footage film is considered to be Cannibal Holocaust, an Italian exploitation film from 1980.
Source: Syfy

And Will Sasso did that lemon thing on Vine. 'MadTV' alumni are really going places.

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - In 2018, Jordan Peele became the first black person to win the Original Screenplay award for Get Out.
Source: L.A. Times

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