Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro de Cine de Terror

Did you know that the Joker was inspired by a character in one of the first horror movies, filmed in 1927? A few years earlier, Nosferatu had chilled the blood of an impressionable public who believed that its protagonist, Max Schreck, was a real vampire. Few know that Ed Wood, the father of the B series, used to cross-dress, and that his cinema would inspire the popular zombie saga Resident Evil. Great actors and filmmakers flirted with a genre reviled for years, such as Jack Nicholson, star of the worst horror film in history, or Stanley Kubrick, who was about to direct The Exorcist. Cinema and horror have always gone hand in hand. And we are no longer talking about the dread that caused such a technical miracle among some viewers at the beginning of the last century -this really happened-, but about our inclination towards the stories that fascinate and terrify us, those that since the dawn of humanity have been whispered in front of the flickering light of a campfire and that, when the time came, made the leap to the big screen to continue exerting their powerful influence. From the German expressionism of silent cinema to the avant-garde "Elevated Horror", through the Universal monsters, the B series, the demonic possession genre of the 70s, the video store creatures of the 80s, the revolutionary "found footage" or the shocking Japanese horror. A century of curiosities to dive into the depths of the cinematic phenomenon par excellence, from the hand of one of the greatest experts and lovers of horror.