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Ghosts and monsters still remained a frequent feature of horror, but many films used the supernatural premise to express the horror of the demonic.

The Innocents ( Jack Clayton, 1961 ) based on the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting ( Robert Wise, 1963 ) are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s, both made in the UK by American studios.

In Rosemary's Baby ( Roman Polanski, 1968 ), set in New York, the devil is made flesh.

Meanwhile, ghosts were a dominant theme in Japanese horror, or ' J-horror ', in such films as Kwaidan, Onibaba ( both 1964 ) and Kuroneko ( 1968 ).