The cult sub-genre of the supernatural film has been much maligned, but, at its best, supernatural horror allows us an awe-inspiring glimpse of another world, exhibiting all the facets of the cinema's possibilities as a narrative art form. This is an exploration of the supernatural horror film, providing a detailed analysis of individual films, concentrating on the golden age of horror films, from the earliest Universal talkies and the B movies produced for RKO, to an in-depth examination of Robert Wise's The Haunting, made in 1963.