Spine-tingling teaser footage for "The Bye Bye Man" has delighted fans of horror with its offering of all the delicious tropes of a great spooky story. Women flock to horror movies -- in greater numbers than men, according to various box office surveys -- yet until recently a female director was as rare a sight in the genre as a working cellar light or a cell phone with a signal. The worldwide film industry has churned out many thousands of horror movies since Frenchman Georges Melies directed "Le Manoir Du Diable" ("The Devil's Castle") in 1896.



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