That's the one item in the trivia and I'm wondering why it wouldn't be considered the first horror movie overall. I know there were shorts before this dating back to the mid-1890's, but to my knowledge, this is the first full-length horror film. Am I mistaken or is it just a matter of how you read the statement?
shareMaybe it doesn't count as full-length, since it doesn't break an hour.
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Well it does predate Nosferatu (1922) and the 1st filming of The Golem (1915) & The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) so I could see how it could be the 1st Horror movie. Back then most movies were on the short side so a film that was 45 min. long must have seemed like a long feature I'd think.
Even today a feature film is defined by most (BFI, AFI) as 40 minutes or longer. But this is not even important since this movie originally was 80+ minutes long.
If we didn't treat it as a feature film, then trivia would be wrong since there had been many horror movies before this one (some of Melies movies are considered horors, Frankenstein from 1910 is definitely a horror).