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The films

486 entries, from the 1931 Universal cycle to last year. Curated, not exhaustive: a short shelf of things worth knowing about beats a long one nobody can navigate.

Alternate titles are searched too. "Twitch of the Death Nerve" finds "A Bay of Blood".

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5 films

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The Uninvited

1944 · USA · 99m

The first Hollywood ghost film to play it entirely straight. Almost nothing has aged.

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Dead of Night

1945 · UK · 103m

The British portmanteau that every anthology since has copied, and the ventriloquist episode has never been bettered.

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I Walked with a Zombie

1943 · USA · 68m

Jane Eyre relocated to a Caribbean sugar plantation, and it is the most beautiful film in this category.

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Cat People

1942 · USA · 73m

Val Lewton was told to make a film from a title and a poster. He made one about a woman afraid of her own desire.

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The Wolf Man

1941 · USA · 70m

Most werewolf folklore you think is ancient was invented for this script in 1941.