A History of Horror Film

A still from The Blair Witch Project, showing a character holding a camera

Find below a chronological list of all the films covered by the blog. Some of these are part of longer series and will be noted as such, others are individual films that I just wanted to cover.

The 1930s

• White Zombie (1932) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)

The 1950s

• Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)

The 1960s

• The Plague of the Zombies (1966) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Night of the Living Dead (1969) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)

The 1970s

• There’s Always Vanilla (1971) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Season of the Witch (1973) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• The Crazies (1973) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• The Exorcist (1973) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)
• The Amusement Park (1975) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• The Exorcist II: Heretic (1977) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)
• Martin (1977) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Zombi 2 (1979) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)

The 1980s

• The Ninth Configuration (1980) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)
• City of the Living Dead (1980) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Creepshow (1982) (part of The Stephen King Reading List and …of the Dead Film Review)
• Day of the Dead (1985) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• The Return of the Living Dead (1985) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Maximum Overdrive (1986) (part of The Stephen King Reading List)

The 1990s

• The Exorcist III (1990) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)
• Repossessed (1990) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)
• Night of the Living Dead (1990) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Sleepwalkers (1992) (part of The Stephen King Reading List)
• Michael Jackson’s Ghosts (1996) (part of The Stephen King Reading List)
• Storm of the Century (1999) (part of The Stephen King Reading List)

The 2000s

• Dawn of the Dead (2004) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)
• Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)
• Land of the Dead (2005) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Diary of the Dead (2007) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• Survival of the Dead (2009) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)

The 2010s

• The Exorcist TV show (2016-17) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)
  • Series 1 (2016)
  • Series 2 (2017)
• One Cut of the Dead (2017) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)

The 2020s

• Creepshow: Season 3, episode 6 ‘Dead Girl Named Sue‘ (2021) (part of the …of the Dead Film Review)
• The Exorcist: Believer (2023) (part of The Steps of the Exorcist)