Special effects makeup has been an integral part of the movie imagination since the Silent Film Era. Filmmakers reaching back as far as Charlie Chaplin and George Melies have employed makeup and prosthetics to inhabit different characters more convincingly. As early as the 1920s, moviemakers were even making early attempts at creature effects, with early films like Nosferatu and The Phantom of the Opera terrifying audiences and laying a foundation for the next hundred years of scares.