In case you didn’t know, my good buddy and fellow horror fanatic Aaron Christensen (aka Dr. AC) will be hosting a presentation online through the Chicago Public Library, starring in a little over an hour! So you still have time to come join us.

For the link, just click HERE.

And if you do, below is some take home work for you. It is a list of films, actors, directors, and other names in the genre that you should familiar yourself with, if you don’t know them already.

Film Recommendations:

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• Der Golem (1920)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• Haxan (1922)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Dracula (1931)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
• Freaks (1932)
• Mystery of the Wax Museum (1932)
• The Mummy (1932)
• White Zombie (1932)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• Island of Lost Souls (1933)
• King Kong (1933)
• Black Cat, The (1934)
• The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Mad Love (1935)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• Cat People (1942)
• I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
• The Uninvited (1944)
• The Body Snatcher (1945)
• Dead of Night (1945)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• The Thing from Another World (1951)
• Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
• House of Wax (1953)
• War of the Worlds (1953)
• Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
• Them! (1954)
• Godzilla (1954)
• Les Diaboliques (1955)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
• Curse of the Demon aka Night of the Demon (1957)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
• The Fly (1958)
• Horror of Dracula (1958)
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
• The Blob (1958)
• Eyes Without a Face (1959)
• Plan Nine from Outer Space (1959)
• House on Haunted Hill (1959)
• Black Sunday (1960)
• Village of the Damned (1960)
• Peeping Tom (1960)
• Psycho (1960)
• House of Usher (1960)
• The Innocents (1961)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• The Birds (1963)
• The Haunting (1963)
• Blood Feast (1963)
• 2000 Maniacs! (1964)
• Onibaba (1964)
• Blood and Black Lace (1964)
• The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
• Repulsion (1965)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Witchfinder General (1968)
• Tales from the Crypt (1972)
• The Last House on the Left (1972)
• Westworld (1973)
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• Black Christmas (1974)
• Deep Red (1975)
• Jaws (1975)
• Shivers (1975)
• The Stepford Wives (1975)
• Carrie (1976)
• The Omen (1976)
• Martin (1977)
• Suspiria (1977)
• Eraserhead (1978)
• Halloween (1978)
• Phantasm (1979)
• Dawn of the Dead (1979)
• Alien (1979)
• The Shining (1980)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• The Howling (1981)
• The Beyond (1981)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• The Thing (1982)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• Videodrome (1983)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Re-Animator (1985)
• Return of the Living Dead (1985)
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
• The Fly (1986)
• Aliens (1986)
• Hellraiser (1987)
• Child’s Play (1988)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Se7en (1995)
• Scream (1996)
• Ringu (1998)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Final Destination (2000)
• Battle Royale (2000)
• 28 Days Later (2002)
• Resident Evil (2002)
• Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
• House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
• High Tension (2003)
• Saw (2004)
• Hostel (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Wolf Creek (2005)
• The Descent (2005)
• The Devil’s Rejects (2005)
• Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
• The Mist (2007)
• Grindhouse (2007)
• The Orphanage (2007)
• Paranormal Activity (2007, released 2011)
• Inside (2007)
• [Rec] (2007)
• Trick ’r Treat (2007)
• Let the Right One In (2008)
• Pontypool (2008)
• Stake Land (2010)
• The Last Circus (2010)

Directors and Producers

• Dario Argento
• Samuel Z. Arkoff
• Jack Arnold
• Roy Ward Baker
• Charles Band
• Clive Barker
• Mario Bava
• Tod Browning
• John Carpenter
• Michael Careras
• William Castle
• Bob Clark
• Larry Cohen
• Kevin Connor
• Roger Corman
• Don Coscarelli
• Wes Craven
• David Cronenberg
• Sean Cunningham
• Joe Dante
• Ruggero Deodato
• Brian DePalma
• Terence Fisher
• Freddie Francie
• Jess Franco
• Lucio Fulci
• Bert I. Gordon
• Stuart Gordon
• Frank Henenlotter
• Anthony Hinds
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Ishiro Hondo
• Tobe Hooper
• John Hough
• Peter Jackson
• Lloyd Kaufman
• Carl Laemmle, Jr.
• John Landis
• G. Lewis
• Val Lewton
• William Lustig
• Takashi Miike
• Hideo Nakata
• Anthony Nelson-Keys
• James H. Nicholson
• Roman Polanski
• Sam Raimi
• Jean Rollin
• George A. Romero
• Ken Russell
• Robert Shaye
• Michele Soavi
• Steven Spielberg
• Jacques Tourneur
• Pete Walker
• James Whale
• Robert Wise
• Ed Wood, Jr.
• Brian Yuzna

Actors

• Lionel Atwill
• Bruce Campbell
• Lon Chaney
• Lon Chaney Jr.
• Jeffrey Combs
• Peter Cushing
• Robert Engund
• Boris Karloff
• Christopher Lee
• Bela Lugosi
• Paul Naschy
• Vincent Price
• Barbara Steele

Writers

• Stephen King
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Richard Matheson
• Dan O’Bannon
• Allan Ormsby
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Jimmy Sangster
• Mary Shelley
• Bram Stoker
• Koji Suzuki
• H.G. Wells

F/X Artists

• Roy Ashton
• Rick Baker
• Howard Berger
• Paul Blaisdell
• Rob Bottin
• John Chambers
• John P. Fulton
• Ray Harryhausen
• Bob Keen
• Robert Kurtzman
• Greg Nictorero
• Willis O’Brien
• Jack Piece
• Tom Savini
• Dick Smith
• Stan Winston