List of horror films of the 1890s

This is a list of horror films released in the 1890s

List

Horror films released in the 1890s
Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/notes
1896
Le Manoir du diable	Georges Méliès	Jeanne d'Alcy	France	Short film^[1]^[2]
Une nuit terrible	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	France	Short film^[2]
Escamotage d’une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	France	Short film^[3]
1897
The Haunted Castle	George Albert Smith	George Albert Smith	United Kingdom	Short film^[4]
The Bewitched Inn	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	France	Short film^[4]
The X-Rays	George Albert Smith	Laura Bayley, Tom Green	United Kingdom	Short film^[4]^[5]
The Alchemist's Hallucination	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	France	Short film^[4]
1898
Photographing a Ghost	George Albert Smith	George Albert Smith	United Kingdom	Short film^[6]
The Accursed Cavern	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	France	Short film^[6]
The Astronomer's Dream	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	France	Short film^[6]
Shinin No Sosei (Resurrection of a Corpse)			Japan	Short film^[7]^[8]
Bake Jizo (Jizo the Spook)			Japan	Short film^[7]
The Cavalier's Dream	Edwin S. Porter	N/A	United States	Short film^[6]
1899
Cléopâtre	Georges Méliès	Jeanne d'Alcy	France	Short film^[9]
The Miser's Doom	Walter R. Booth	Walter R. Booth	United Kingdom	Short film^[9]
Le Diable au couvent	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	France	Short film^[9]
Raising Spirits	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	France	Short film^[9]

^ Hardy 1995, p. 16.
^ ^a ^b Kinnard 1999, p. 9.
^ Kinnard 1999, pp. 8−9.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kinnard 1999, p. 10.
^ Brooke, Michael. "The X-Rays". BFI Screenonline Database. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kinnard 1999, p. 11.
^ ^a ^b Sarah Nour - The First 10 Horror Films in Recorded History, reelrundown.com, November 12, 2019
^ Shinin No Sosei, imdb.com
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kinnard 1999, p. 12.