Who was the first person to make a horror movie?

The first person to make a horror movie is generally considered to be Georges Méliès, a French filmmaker and magician. Méliès is credited with making the first horror film, Le Manoir du Diable (The House of the Devil), in 1896. The one-minute film shows a bat transforming into a devil, who then drags a man down to hell. The film is considered to be the first example of the horror genre, and it helped to establish many of the conventions that would be used in horror films for years to come.