List of horror films of the 1920s

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A list of horror films released in the 1920s.

Horror films released in the 1920s

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
1920
Anita	Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck	Lola Urban-Kneidinger, Wilhelm Klitsch, Julius Strobl		[1]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	Robert Wiene	Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt		[2][3]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	John S. Robertson	John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield		[4][5]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	J. Charles Haydon	Sheldon Lewis		[6]
Genuine	Robert Wiene	Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski		[7]
The Golem: How He Came into the World	Paul Wegener, Karl Boese	Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück		[8][9]
The Head of Janus	F. W. Murnau	Conrad Veidt, Bela Lugosi		[10]
The Penalty	Wallace Worsley, Sr.	Lon Chaney, Claire Adams		[11]
Il Mostro di Frankenstein (The Monster of Frankenstein)	Eugenio Testa	Umberto Guarracino		[12]
1921
Der Muede Tod	Fritz Lang	Lil Dagover, Bernard Goetzke, Walter Janssen		[13]
The Haunted Castle	F. W. Murnau	Arnold Korft, Lothar Mehnert		[14][15]
Körkarlen	Victor Sjöström	Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström		[16]
1922
A Blind Bargain	Wallace Worsley, Sr.	Raymond McKee, Jacqueline Logan, Fontaine La Rue		[17][18]
The Ghost Breaker	Alfred Green	Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, Walter Hiers		Lost film[19][20]
Häxan	Benjamin Christensen	Benjamin Christensen, Clara Pontoppidan		[21][19]
The Headless Horseman	Edward D. Venturini	Will Rogers, Ben Hendricks, Lois Meredith		[22]
Nosferatu	F. W. Murnau	Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder		[8]
One Exciting Night	D. W. Griffith	Carol Dempster, Henry Hull, Morgan Wallace		[23][24]
1923
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Wallace Worsley	Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry		[25]
The Last Moment	J. Parker Read	Henry Hull, Doris Kenyon, Louis Wolheim		[26]
1924
The Hands of Orlac	Robert Wiene	Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina		[8]
Waxworks	Paul Leni	Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Emil Jannings, William Dieterle		[8]
1925
The Monster	Roland West	Lon Chaney, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmstead		[17]
The Phantom of the Opera	Rupert Julian	Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry		[27]
Wolfblood: A Tale of the Forest	George Chesebro, Bruce M. Mitchell	Marguerite Clayton, Ray Hanford		[28]
1926
The Bat	Roland West	Jack Pickford, Louise Fazenda		[29]
Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage	F. W. Murnau	Emil Jannings, Yvette Guilbert, Gösta Ekman		[30]
Maciste all'inferno	Guido Brignone	Bartolomeo Pagano, Franz Sala, Pauline Polaire		[31][32]
The Magician	Rex Ingram	Alice Terry, Paul Wegener		[33]
The Student of Prague	Henrik Galeen	Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy		[34]
1927
The Cat and the Canary	Paul Leni	Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale		[35]
The Gorilla	Alfred Santell	Charlie Murray, Fred Kelsey, Alice Day		[36]
London After Midnight	Tod Browning	Lon Chaney, Marceline Day		Known in the UK as The Hypnotist[37]
The Spider's Web	Oscar Micheaux	Lorenzo McClane, Henrietta Loveless, Cincinnatus Major
The Unknown	Tod Browning	Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford		[38]
1928
Alraune	Henrik Galeen	Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener		[39]
The Ape	Beverly C. Rule	Gladys Walton, Ruth Stonehouse, Basil Wilson, Bradley Barke		[40]
The Fall of the House of Usher	Jean Epstein	Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance		[41][42]
The Fall of the House of Usher	James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber	Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson		[43]
The Terror	Roy Del Ruth	May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett Horton		[44][45]

References

1. Kinnard 1999, p. 108.
2. Worland 2007, p. 44.
3. Sadoul & Morris 1972, p. 48.
4. Worland 2007, p. 41.
5. Erickson, Hal. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
6. Wollstein, Hans J. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
7. Kinnard 1999, p. 114.
8. Worland 2007, p. 47.
9. Wiener, Tom. "Der Golem". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
10. Hardy 1995, p. 27.
11. Wiener, Tom. "The Penalty". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
12. Kinnard 1999, p. 119.
13. Hardy 1995, p. 29.
14. Erickson, Hal. "Schloss Vogelod". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
15. "Haunted Castle" (DVD). Allmovie. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
16. Hardy 1995, p. 28.
17. Clark 2004, p. 13.
18. Erickson, Hal. "A Blind Bargain". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
19. Hardy 1995, p. 30.
20. Hallenbeck 2009, pp. 5-6.
21. Erickson, Hal. "Häxan". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
22. Hallenbeck 2009, p. 8.
23. Hardy 1995, p. 31.
24. Hallenbeck 2009, pp. 6-7.
25. Kinnard 1999, pp. 147–152.
26. Hardy 1995, p. 32.
27. Brenner, Paul. "The Phantom of the Opera". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
28. Richardson, Thomas E. "Wolf Blood". Classic-Horror.com. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
29. Hallenbeck 2009, p. 9.
30. Paszylk 2009, pp. 16-19.
31. Peters, Rebecca. "Maciste all'inferno, 1926". San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
32. Kinnard 1999, p. 171.
33. Erickson, Hal. "Magician". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
34. Hardy 1995, p. 36.
35. Erickson, Hal. "The Cat and the Canary". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
36. Hardy 1995, p. 37.
37. Hardy 1995, p. 38.
38. Erickson, Hal. "The Unknown". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
39. Hardy 1995, p. 39.
40. Kinnard 1999, pp. 212–213.
41. Erickson, Hal. "The Fall of the House of Usher". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
42. Kinnard 1999, pp. 213–214.
43. Kinnard 1999, p. 214.
44. Munden 1997, p. 792.
45. Dirks, Tim. "Horror Films". Filmsite.org. Retrieved December 1, 2014.

Citations

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