Fifty Frightening Horror Movies

From the earliest days of cinema, audiences have loved being scared. The appeal of the macabre and the bizarre never goes out of fashion, and the great horror films are often amongst people's most vivid movie going memories.

In Hollywood in the 1930s, characters such as Dracula and Frankenstein's monsters made stars of actors lsuch as Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff then, in 1950s' Britain, the mantle was taken up by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The 1970s took films into ever-darker ter...