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100 Horror Films to See Before You Die

Vintage poster for Robert-Houdin theater showing ghostly figure, magician, and dramatic scene.
1. Le Manoir du Diable
1896
2. Frankenstein
1910
A dark, eerie face with sharp features and a small, pale figure curled up under its nose.
3. L’Inferno
1911
Vintage poster of a stern man in a dark hat and cloak with text Paul Wegener and Als Student von Prag.
4. Der Student von Prag
1913
Expressionist poster showing a dark figure with intense eyes looming over a prone body on a distorted urban street.
5. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920
Vintage poster of John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde showing man in top hat and shadowy figure
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920
Illustration of Nosferatu vampire with extended claws and rats crawling near his feet in a coffin.
7. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922
8. Häxan
1922
Vintage movie poster of The Phantom of the Opera with Phantom in water and man in boat.
9. The Phantom of the Opera
1925
Vintage Goethe's Faust movie poster showing a man and a devil pointing at a woman at a doorway.
10. Faust: Eine Deutsche Volkssage
1926
11. The Unknown
1927
12. Dracula
1931
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