Horror cinema is in a way as old as cinema itself. This is often a grey area and highly debated, with many different opinions on what is actually the first ‘Horror Film’. The term horror movie probably didn’t enter our vocabulary or become its own entity until the Universal Monster movies of the 1930’s. However if we refer to the term as drawing on Gothic elements, the intent to shock or surprise, and the supernatural, then we can certainly trace it back to the early years of film making. I could ramble on in detail about the history of cinema, the history of gothic literature, folklore and so on but…