10 Lost Horror Movies You Can't Watch

Universal’s Dracula lays claim to being the first ever ‘talkie’ horror film with a 1931 release. However, a lost film called The Terror beats that mark by 3 years. In fact, it was the second “all-talking” motion picture to be released by Warner Bros, the first being Lights Of New York. However, whist Lights Of New York survived the years and released on DVD, both the silent and talkie versions of The Terror were determined as ‘lost’ since the 1970s.

The Terror was a murder/mystery horror film about an unknown serial killer called ‘The Terror’ who lives in an inn alongside a group of other guests including a spiritual medium, a detective, and two men who want to take revenge upon ‘The Terror’.

The reason as to why this film was lost may boil down to reception rather than any other means, as critics from 1928 called The Terror “so bad that it is almost suicidal”, and that it’s “monotonous, slow, dragging, fatiguing and boring”. In all fairness, it’s probably better that Dracula is remembered more fondly as the first horror talkie instead of The Terror, mainly because The Terror sounds a lot less memorable than Dracula.