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Originally Posted by Tommy Jarvis
Depends on what you mean by comedy. From what I understand, overacting was par for the course in a lot of silent films.
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It's subjective; no right or wrong answers. I guess I mean almost certainly not featuring comedy, rather than no comedy.
Tricker posted that link that had a ton of the first 'horror' films, so I figured he read it and might have an opinion.
I checked out a few, and had seen a few before. For instance, the 2 and a half minute short film Le Manoir du Diable (1896), known in English as both "The Haunted Castle" or "The House of the Devil"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPmKaz3Quzo is rather slapstick in many places, and not a story to boot. I'd consider it a horror themed comedy short, if not an expose of special effects.
You have an opinion on which might be the first straight up horror?
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Originally Posted by Tricker
I haven't seen any of the pre-Caligari films so I don't know how much comedy they had in them. Even Caligari could come across as unintentionally funny to a modern audience though!
As an aside about this, I saw a YouTube video a while back about the first film with a twist. I think they said it was a Orson Welles film and was surprised they left out Caligari, but that was probably because they weren't aware of it.
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I don't how many of those films you looked at from that page you linked?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film There's a lot. Of the ones I saw, I think Faust in Hell (Faust aux enfers) (1903) is probably the first horror film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgnZbfKcHw