History of film

1895 - The first films ever shown were the Lumiere Brothers films

1902 - Le Voyage Dans la Lune by Georges Méliès

1915 - Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith)

1927 - The Jazz Singer by Al Jolson (First film released with sound)

 

History of horror movies:

The first known horror movie was 'The house of the Devil' from 1896. After this film was released, many more horror films were made. Such as Frankenstein from 1910 which has been remade multiple times. The most influential horror films through the 1920s came from Germany's expressionist movement, with films like 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' and 'Nosferatu' influencing the next generation of American cinema. Universal Studios entered a Golden Age of monster movies in the '30s, releasing a string of hit horror movies beginning with ​'Dracula and Frankenstein' in 1931 and including the controversial 'Freaks' and a Spanish version of ​'Dracula'.
No decade had more seminal, acclaimed horror films than the 1960s. Reflecting the social revolution of the era, the movies were more edgy, featuring controversial levels of violence and sexuality. Films like ​'Peeping Tom' and ​'Psycho' were precursors to the slasher movies of the coming decades, while George Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' changed the face of zombie movies forever.
 Exploitation movies hit their stride in the 1970s, boldly flouting moral conventions with graphic sex and violence, this latter reflected particularly in a spate of zombie movies such as 'Dawn of the Dead' and cannibal films such as 'The Man From Deep River'. The shock factor even pushed films like 'The Exorcist' and 'Jaws' to blockbuster success.