Essential Horror Movies

These are such things as screams are made of! From the black-and-white nightmares etched out of the German Expressionist movement to today's terrifying exercises in cinema verite, the horror film has never gone out of fashion, decade after decade. Essential Horror Movies charts the history of the horror film - its creation, development, and evolution-through the movies that have been essential to the growth and continuance of the genre. What makes a horror movie "essential"? It can be that...