The purpose of this study was to find out the contact points of expressionist movie with modern films,by analyzing the duality of German expressionist movie texts around the 1900s. At this time when a variety of media have been developed, carrying out this study of which aim was to examine classical movie, produced about 100 years ago, was because the contents and visually expressive methods of expressionist movie seemed to be still utilized. Expressionism was subjective in that it exposed the problems of times and society in Germany around the 1900s without filtering and expressed subject’s experience from inside to outside. With this trend, the movie at that time utilized the artistic possibility of expressionist movement in the neighboring genre of art. The movie, therefore, had riffle effects not only from aesthetic perspective but also from industrial perspective, contained sociocultural implications and expressed the anxiety and horror of the public through spectatorship. In the films of today, the genre of horror movie exposes spectatorship in combination with various filmic genres, such as SF movie and psychological thriller movie. Since they have been influenced by the visual/narrative duality of expressionist movie, their implications are great. As for the duality presented in the narrative of German expressionist movie, the expression of characters was carried out with the contrast between normality and abnormality and man and woman, and with the dual self-oriented separation. The descriptive structure had picture-frame-oriented dual structure of description and presented the possibility of opened conclusion-based dual interpretation. In addition, the duality of images was reproduced through the contrast between black and white, the confrontation between light and darkness, the barrier between dream and reality based on the overlapping of times and spaces, and contrasting actions of movements. All of these methods of expression originated from internal inevitability. These dualities of expressionist movie are presented in the horror movie of modern films, through such an expressive method of characters as the difference between inflictor/victim and man/woman. Regarding images, duality is presented in diverse films and throughout media that inducing horror and fantasy, such as film noir lighting, surrealistic setting and SF movie. This study was initiated to re-highlight the meaning of expressionist movie on the basis of research on the duality of expressionist movie, and then provide help to the analysis on the films which appealing to the social implication-bearing horror and fantasy by analyzing expressionist movie in relation to modern films. The author hopes many studies will be carried out in the future from diverse perspectives and new film aesthetics will be found out as well.