100 best American horror movies of all time
By Nicole Johnson of Stacker |
100 best American horror movies of all time
Georges Melies’ 1896 film Le Manior du Diable is believed to be the very first horror movie ever, and though filmed in France, it was released in the United States as The Haunted Castle,” establishing deep roots for the horror genre in American cinema. While horror films are often deemed a lower cultural form of filmmaking, they have been popular mainstays all the way back to the Golden Age of Hollywood, when Universal Pictures made a series of celebrated monster movies that audiences still love today.
In the autumn of 1975, Martin Scorsese was finishing
Taxi Driver, Bob Dylan began his Rolling Thunder Revue tour, and Orson Welles’
F for Fake premiered in New York.
In the autumn of 1975, Martin Scorsese was finishing
Taxi Driver, Bob Dylan began his Rolling Thunder Revue tour, and Orson Welles’
F for Fake premiered in New York. Welles’ manipulation of found documentary footage of art forger Elmyr de Hory into a viewer-hoodwinking shaggy dog story has far more to do with Scorsese’s film of Dylan’s tour than, say,
The Last Waltz.
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story is a film of crude forgeries and exhilarating truths, fake interviews and vérité theatre, smoke and mirrors. Tipping the wink with its subtitle, and the opening, titular trick from Georges Melies’