The horror genre produced many monster movies like "Dracula" (1931), "Frankenstein" (1931), "The Invisible Man" (1933), "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), and "The Mummy" (1932). Universal and RKO are examples of studios that worked on horror films during society's piqued interest in the genre. Universal’s monster movies featured literal monsters, unlike RKO’s, which explored more metaphorical threats. For example, Tourneur's "Cat People" (1942) and "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) are movies that focused on “unseen terrors”, rather than physical, blood-thirsty creatures of the night.

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