Whether you’re setting a macabre mood in the month of October or seeking a cinematic thrill any other time of the year, nothing does the trick like bone-chilling, terror-inducing horror movies. From watching a slasher film in a packed theater to streaming one of your favorite scary movies alone on your couch at home, the time is always right for a fright.

Horror movies have existed almost as long as the medium of film itself, with 1896’s “Le Manoir du Diable” widely considered to be the first-ever horror short film . A couple decades later, the so-called Golden Age of Horror Movies was kicked off by silent films like “Nosferatu” (1922) and “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1920), and continued with monster movies like “Frankenstein” (1931) and “The Mummy” (1932).

As film movements hav

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