Horror and fantasy cinema

At the start of the thirties the Universal studios discovered that a well-lit monster earns more than a star, and launched a series of films in which the creature is more moving than its pursuers. Thirty years later the British Hammer replayed the same stories in colour and blood, Bava installed the Italian gothic, while Browning had already shot, with real sideshow performers, a film so disturbing that it was withdrawn. Cronenberg would later move fear towards the body that transforms and betrays itself.

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• NovelDraculaBram Stoker · 1897An English solicitor who has come to conclude a sale discovers that he is his client's prisoner.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaFrankensteinJames Whale · 1931An assistant picks the wrong jar, and the body being assembled receives the brain of a criminal.Cinema
• CinemaFreaksTod Browning · 1932The roles of the freaks are played by real circus performers, who play their own bodies.Cinema
• CinemaDraculaTerence Fisher · 1958A librarian arrives at a count's castle with the secret intention of destroying him.Cinema
• CinemaBlack SundayLa maschera del demonioMario Bava · 1960Two centuries after her execution, a witch is brought back to life by accident, deep in a crypt.Cinema
• CinemaThe FlyDavid Cronenberg · 1986A scientist teleports himself with a fly in the pod, and his body sets about becoming something else.Cinema