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Ten Animated Horrors That Are Killer

3 June 2010 10:30 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »

Today's launch of FEARnet original series Mari-Kari got us thinking about the best animated horror films. Here's a countdown of ten of our favorites. The first fully animated film was Fantasmagorie (1908), by French cartoonist / animator Émile Cohl.  The title is a reference to traveling horror shows - "Phantasmagoria" presentations - that once criss-crossed Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.  In these crude but popular horror shows, ghosts, skeletons, and other spooky imagery descended upon the audience by way of projection devices while swirling smoke and scary shadows added to the nightmare experience.  Horror / fantasy was in the blood of animated movies, right from their »

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