Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B-picture aesthetic with his own low-budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots – although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again. Later, Universal Pictures had smash hits with iconic versions of Dracula, The Wolf Man and Frankenstein. Classics of the genre were produced in cinema's very earliest days – the vampire nightmare Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari from the world of German Expressionism. Horror crashes through boundaries and challenges the prohibitions of taste and thinkability in a way few other genres can match.
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