Timeline of Horror films...

1950- God, man and devil - Joseph Seiden(director)
1951- Bride of the Gorilla – Curt Siodmak (director)
1952- The Black Castle – Nathan Juran (director)
1953- Donovan’s Brain – Felix Feist(director)
1954- The Mad Magician – John Brahm(director)
1955-Dementia – John Parker(director)
1956- Invasion of the body snatchers – Kevin McCartney(director)
1957-Voodoo Island – Reginald Le Borg(director)
1958- Dracula – Terence Fisher(director)
1959- Beast from haunted cave – Monte Hellman(director)

1960- House of terror – Gilberto Martinez Solares(director)
1961- The mask – Julian Roffman (director)
1962- The Phantom of the Opera - Terence Fisher(director)
1963- The Birds – Alfred Hitchcock(director)
1964- The haunting – Robert Wise(director)
1965- Die, monster, die! – Daniel Haller(director)
1966- Chamber of horrors – Hy Averback(director)
1967- A taste of blood – Herschell Gordon Lewis(director)
1968- The Ghastly Ones – Andy Milligan(director)
1969- Taste the blood of Dracula – Peter Sasdy(director)

1970- The horror of Frankenstein – Jimmy Sangster(director)
1971- The Devils’s Nightmare – Jean Brismée(director)
1972- Death line – Gary Sherman(director)
1973- The Exorcist – William Friedkin (director)
1974- It’s alive! – Larry Cohen(director)
1975- Trilogy of terror – Dan Curtis(director)
1976- The Omen – Richard Donner(director)
1977- The Hills have eyes – Wes Craven (director)
1978- Halloween – John Carpenter(director)
1979- Alien – Ridley Scott(director)

1980- Friday 13th – Sean Cunningham(director)
1981- Eyes of a stranger – Ken Wisederhorn(director)
1982- The thing – John Carpenter(director)
1983- Psycho II – Richard Franklin(director)
1984- Razorback – Russell Mulcahy(director)
1985- Midnight Hour – Jack Bender(director)
1986- Witchboard – Kevin Tenney(director)
1987- Mirror of death – Deryn Warren(director)
1988- Waxwork – Anthony Hickox(director)
1989- Skinned Alive – Jon Killough(director)

1990- Child’s play 2 – John Lafia(director)
1991- The People under the stairs – Wes Craven(director)
1992- The Untold story – Herman Yau(director)
1993- Frankenstein – David Wickes(director)
1994- In the mouth of madness – John Carpenter(director)
1995- Night of the scarecrow – Jeff Burr(director)
1996- Scream – Wes Craven(director)
1997- The Shining – Mick Garris(director)
1998- Psycho – Gus Van Sant(director)
1999- The blair witch project – Daniel Myrick(director)

2000- Final desination – James Wong(director)
2001- Jeepers Creepers – Victor Salva(director)
2002- The Ring – Gore Verbinski(director)
2003- The texas Chainsaw massacre- Marcus Nispel(director)
2004– Saw – James Wan(director)
2005- The Exorcism of Emily Rose – Scott Derrickson(director)
2006- One missed call – Manabu Asou(director)
2007- 28 days later – Juan Carlos Fresnadillo(director)
2008- The Strangers – Bryan Bertino (director)
2009- Saw 6 – James Wan(director)
2010- Let me in - Matt Reeves (director)