Horror has been depicted in cinema since the dawn of the seventh art: pioneers along the likes of Georges Melies and Ejiro Hatta dabbled with the macabre and the otherworldly in the Fin de siècle period already.
As time moved on, it proved to be one of the preffered ways of handling cinematic narratives, both with seasoned masters and newcomers hoping to evoke a strong reaction in their audiences.
The German-speaking was always a place to find great scares: starting with the chiefly horror Expressionism in the 1920s, then spreading across decades, ending with a handful of extremely unusual low-budget scares at the turn of the millennia, it never failed to entertain, if not petrify.
Here are some nice flicks made by the masters of the genre throughout the decades:
