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The earliest film that could be called a slasher, Thirteen Women (1932).

Even though Psycho (1960) is called "The mother of all slasher films", Peeping Tom (1960) was released 3 months before.

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The First American Horror movie was Thomas Edison's Frankenstein of 1910 but it was not what you consider a movie it was only 12 minutes long. The first true horror movie in the United States was Lon Chaney's 1925 Phantom of the Opera.

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"Peeping Tom" directed by Michael Powell, 1960.

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