A History of Horror: Introduction

Near the beginning of September I was able to participate in "A History of Horror," a horror movie marathon organized by my brother-in-law in anticipation of the Halloween holiday. The intent of this movie marathon was to watch select horror movies in chronological order to help understand the history of horror films, their progressions and trends and enjoy older films for what they are and when they were made instead of comparing them to more contemporary horror films. You can view the "A History of Horror" Facebook page here to read more about the intent and the list of movies decided to watch. In doing this I, and I'm sure anyone else who participated, was able to further appreciate horror films (which I already loved). In reviewing these movies, instead of making individual posts for each film, I will rate each movie on a 5-star scale and give a few thoughts on each film. To give a better idea of these rankings, 5-stars are movies that I loved, all-time great or near to that level. 4-stars are movies that I really liked and look forward to watching again anytime of the year. 3-stars are movies that I liked well enough, though had drawbacks to them, but will make adequate Halloween time movies in the future. 2-stars are movies that I did not like and/or was disappointed in. 1-star are movies that I did not like at all and had almost no redeeming qualities to them. So, with that said, lets start at the bottom.