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-Frankenstein
-Dracula ( Bela Lugosi )
- Au rendez- vous de la mort Joyeuse ( Bunuel, son of the master )
-Nosferatu ( because of copyright could not ne named as the above ) F. Lang
-The Night of the Living Dead ( Vietnam parable )
-The Day the Earth caught fire ( not so well know but excellent )
-Village of the Damned
-Soylent Green
-The Thing ( of course the first version, not the terribel Carpenter´s one )
-The Exorcist
-The Shining
-Them
-The Mummy ( Karloff )
_ Bava´s Italian films
-All the English Hammer production ( kitsch...)
Follow Ups:
I still say though, that the movie that actually scared me the most at the time I saw it was "Rear Window". My dad took me to the theater to see that when I was 12 years old. Things imagined are more scary than the ones you see.
Yes, I almost forgot how much the scene with the flash bulb was scary back then! But this one do not fit in the horror scenario, does it not?
That movie still creeps me out, not as bad as the dead girl in the closet in The Ring, that part takes the cake! Exorcist and 6th sense are good too. It's the things you can't stop(supernatural) that seem the scariest. Like when the vampire crushed the priest's cross right in front of him in Salem's Lot....NOW what do you do???
A nightmare for sure.
Yes! A bad ending dream.
Are you talking about the original ending or the one that the studio forced to director to use?
I think that must be the original. No hope was left for the human race.
Yes, when I watch this I always cut out the beginning and the end.
What ever happen to the middle?
nt
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You like champagne?
;-)
Champagne can only be French.
Santé!
The Audition
Jeepers Creepers
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Part 2
Return of the Living Dead
Reanimator
The Fly
Which " Fly "?
Cronenberg's (1986), naturally
The first is cult as they says. The second was scary. At least back then.
The rest of your bunch I could perfectly sleep through. Reanimator I have not seen.
Reanimator, like Return of Living Dead and to lesser extent Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, plays for the laughs...
Here are my recommended horror films (no particular order):Psycho (Hitchcock) - One of the greatest psychological horror films of all time, with a break-out signature performance by Anthony Perkins as a taxidermist caretaker of a creepy little off-the-main-highway motel
Silence of the Lambs (Demme) - Relentlessly grisly with outstanding albeit disturbing signature performance by Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene) - Surreal early expressionist German horror film involving somnambulism; supurb, intense and still quite disturbing to this day!
Faust (Murnau) - Awesome silent film with a bit more metaphysical drama thrown in than horror, involving the warring forces of good & evil, but the tragedy most certainly has horror elements that stay with you after the film's conclusion
The Haunting (Wise) - Supurb psychological horror flick in the old dark house mold, but perfectly paced chills and performances are guaranteed to send a chill up your spine, especially if viewed alone late at night.
The Exorcist (Friedkin) - Jody Foster in a pea-soup upchuck flick scarey enough to give you chills while making your head spin; great Mike Oldfield soundtrack.
Night of the Living Dead (Romero; original) - disturbingly creepy, cheaply made horror film from the 1960's that broke ground, rose above it and then made it's way across the country biting off an unexpectedly large chunk of the box-office along the way.
Freaks (Browning) - grisly horror film that pulls you into the world of side shows and human deformity
The Devil's Backbone (del Toro) - great atmospheric foreign horror film set in the 1930's during the Spanish Civil War
The Sixth Sense (Shymalan) - very disturbing edge of your seat ghost flick with a great twist
The Man Who Laughs (Leni) - late silent era horror film with some very disturbing historical situations that you can't get out of your mind once you've seen them
The Tingler (Castle) - guilty pleasure with some genuine chills; shot in B&W, but includes a color sequence that's bound to jolt
The Thing (Cartenter) - classic based upon John W. Campbell's short story (under the nom-de-plume Don A. Stewert) "Who Goes There" which appeaedr in Astounding SF in 1938; this version is much closer to the original than the carrot-man Christian Nyby version from the 1950's
Chicken Run - Mrs. Purdy's axe only falls once, but the rest of the film has the cast running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to avoid a similar fate; that chicken pie machine will give the crustiest viewer nightmares! ;^)
Schindler's List - Technically not a horror flick, but I defy anyone to watch this and not have the sensation of being a reluctant voyeur to cruel and unimaginable horrors.
Honorable mention:
Farenheit 9/11 - The featured actor, or rather bad actor who was given the lead in this film, makes Frankenstein look like Pee Wee Herman! This film has suspense: The silence of the lamb, or rather the pet goat, monopolizes the screen for long minutes while cities fall and thousands perish. Poignancy: in other scenes soldiers scramble to survive the horrors of war while U.S. corporations divide up the spoils abnd bring in private contractors, etc., and much MUCH Moore. Were this not a documatary F9/11 would probably make my Top 15 Horror Show List. :o)
It's getting rather late, so I'll make that the last entry.
Cheers,
AuPh
Goes to show that life can be scarier than any movie. What's scarier is that this dimbulb who can't speak properly and may very well be as close to Forest Gump IQ as any leader in the free (well if you've been beaten into believing the propaganda) world we live in got elected AGAIN. It's really hard to get out from the Stupid American stereotype when they elect Forest's Slower brother to office. Did you see the DVD extra's. The interview with Bush. I mean I swear Dan Quale even looks good in comparison. I may disagree with the right wing and the religious right wing -- and religion all together -- but where does it say ye shall elect morons -- can they not find at least ONE well-spoken religious fanatic who hears God talking to him over Bush.Clinton cheats on his wife while Bush ruins the country and kills people for profit takes holidays more than doing any work -- and the former is deemed worse -- what a screwed up little world. But at least they stopped Gays from marrying === woah now that's gonna save the country and family values. It's no wonder they hate the Western Infidels -- how could they not?
These two movies are hard to classify. I think Freaks could go either way. I debated putting Tha Man Who Laughs on my list, and ultimately decided that it wasn't a true "horror" movie, althoughiIt's certainly a fine and facinating film.To me, both films belong to a genre apparently deceased these days: melodrama. You could call them macabre, but I don't think personally I'd call them horror.
nt
...it's the end scene that's horrific - everything builds up to that.
What makes it horrific is that we sympathize with the freaks throughout the film and are then asked to condone the end scene, on their behalf.
Try the end of Housekeeper, when the woman sez to Jean-Pierre Bacri: "Your daughter is beautiful". Of course only Patrick and the members of his Old Fart party can truly understand that.That sudden realization that life is gone is perhaps the biggest horror one can imagine.
Or to be in the HAND of the LIVING GOD awaiting Judgment just after death.
I remember the line. Being the optimist, I would simply smile at all the fun I was having. Evertime I see Nicholson, he is smiling. He may know something we do not.
That of course was a tongue-in-cheek post. But of course the discomfort there was not the age, it was being foolish.Horror is what affects us. In The Notebook the scenes of dimentia are quite real, and have power of affecting you, even though the movie is not really a horror flick.
Sheeeesh! The only thing scary about that would be forcing someone to watch it. 8^D
Did they nail you one feet to the ground?
If we were to assign a flavor to HIS taste... what would that be?I suspect that would make him wish for some Grey Poupon!
Well he may change his taste. I condemn him for three months hard ( ? I hope for him....) work in Hamburg´s bordellos.
Free.
Three years of opening doors for ladies, is my verdict!Who knows, it might become his second nature!
When it would be his second nature I wonder what his first is.....
See us on the Outside....
It's kind of a horror movie. Remember the freaks chasing down the
evil blonde babe? They turn her into a chicken/person/evil blond
babe. Regards,
nt
(nt)
nt
;^)
nt
The Exorcist (Friedkin) - Jody Foster in a pea-soup upchuck flick???
Linda Blair, maybe?
;0)
(nt)
The longer the better.....
... apparently lost when you and Victor were spelunking! :o)If you can provide any tidbits of useful information about this object that archaeologists may have overlooked I'm sure that historians and amateur spelunkers everywhere will be very appreciative. ;^)
To give you a free time in Hamburg bordello´s where you can visit all the caves you want.
...it's obviously the road less traveled, but undoubtably the ruts would be far too hazardous for gentleman like myself to risk getting stuck! ;^D
To risk getting sucked?
Poor boy....
;^)
This time I beat you Jeff...
Passe une bonne journée!
nt
Linda Blair.
...when you are correct! :o)
nt
;^)
nt
So far you're just mildly annoying, but you are getting attention.
nt
... and probably very excited by the implications of your suggestion! ;^)
Alien & Alien 3 (2 and 4 weren't horror movies)
Hellraiser
Jacob's Ladder
The ShiningI liked John Carpenter's The Thing, I thought there was some good drama between the characters trying to figure out who was infected.
2001 really freaked me out as a kid. The big black monolith and the wierd opera music was really creepy and strange. Might be why it's one of my favorite movies now :)
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
I think Jacob's Ladder is among the best of this so-called genre, though I think it transcends it.I find myself laughing at the Shining more than being scared by it. That's not necessarily a criticism.
I liked Carpenter's The Thing. The special effects have dated some, but I like its business-like approach to plot and characterization, and I think it creates a great mood of paranoid tension. And we all knew there was something wrong with that Quaker Oats guy.
The appearance of the monolith in the opening sequence in 2001 is, I think, one of the weirdest most unnervingly disjunctive moments in all of film. I think classing 2001 a horror film is right on. I think much of its potency comes from exploiting the fear of the unknown. I think it is, in a lot of ways, an extended exercise in clauster- and agoraphobia.
The Remake actually followed the original story "who goes there" and was a better film than the original. The Re-make could have been so much better though if they spend more time developing the characters -- which is perhaps where the first film succeeds better.I would post my list but why Victor just dumps on everybody so I suggest taking all of your opinions and going to www.rottentomatoes.com and posting on their forums -- there are a number of REAL critics and memebers of the online film critics society where not just anyone is accepted. Plus you can avoid people like this on this site.
it also has some scary plot holes and continuity problems.Seriously, Nosferatu and Night of the living dead (1968) give me the willies and I recently enjoyed The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
House on Haunted Hill, Delicatesen, Freaks, Dracula, Invaders from Mars, Invasion of the body Snatchers (both)
You think Blue Velvet is a horror film? Eraserhead...maybe. But BV?
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I didn't see these listed yet... Scary to me!The Vanishing
Dead Of Night
Carnival Of Souls
The Tenant
"Anguish," by Spanish director Bigas Luna. And one of these days
Guillermo del Toro is going to do H.P. Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains
of Madness.' Lovecraft has yet to be convincingly done as a movie.
Regards,
The more I see it, the more it disturbs me. I see no reason viewing any longer.
Any seen with Bobby Peru in it. Especially when he goes into Laura Dern's motel room. "Theres the smell of puke in here." That whole scene was wayy uncomfortable. Many other moments thougout the film as well.
...then you should definitely avoid Salo.I think Blue Velvet would be in my top ten of best American films of the past 25 years.
it just kinda grows off of me.
Any word on this? I heard about it quite a while ago, but haven't heard anything new, or if it went into filming/production yet.
It has potential.
Jack
Just did a search a aintitcool.com: slim pickins. Harry's big on it,
but not much has been said of late. I'd like to see del Toro do
Lovecraft's 'The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward' also, with,
say, Jim Carrey in the lead. Regards,
Guillermo del Toro - yes.
Gracious, I never knew Bigas Luna directed a horror film. His other movies are...unusual...to say the least.I only hope Guillermo del Toro isn't defanged by Hollywood...I would pay to see his take on Lovecraft.
...Guillermo del Toro's got a great track record.
I keep meaning to rent 'The Borrower', but it always looked too trashy.
Night of the Living Dead (original)
Susperia (Argento)
Evil Dead
The Omen
The Shinning
Godzilla
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The Exorcist
The Thing
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dracula
An American Werewolf in London
Creature From The Haunted Sea
Alien
Bug (1975)
Tales From The Crypt
Friday the 13th 1st, and the 3d (In 3D)
Later Version of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
Children of the Corn
Ju-on, Japanese film later made by US and called "The Grudge"
Jack the Ripper
C-Span;Friday the 13th in 3D was a total mind blower for a kid in his late teens. I truly hope to see more 3D movies in the future.
You can bet that 3D will come back! But in a twenty one century form...
...looking at people's lists.I do not typically find anything horrific about things like Aliens, Exorcist, Dracula and several others listed in this thread. They produce nothing but boredom in me and no shivering or raised hairs.
I agree with Harmonia - I do think all that fake blood is so ridiculous it is not even funny. Give me the Repulsion any day over that stuff.
Aliens? Nothing a good mouse trap would not fix.
I find it hard to beieve any adult would find it horrifying.
It also depends upon your age and experience. I am at the age where no movie can scare me. On the other hand, when I was in grade school I saw When a Stranger Calls, about a serial killer who has killed the children whom a babysitter is babysitting, and is calling from the second floor to tell her that he is going to kill the kids. When you are in grade school, and are occasionally being babysat, that was scary. Now? Nope.Are Aliens scary at the ripe old age of whatever it is to be in horror at the misunderstanding of a girlfriend for a daughter? Probably not. But for those young enough to believe they exist somewhere, it is scary. Those are the people for whom these films are made.
I believe the opening post called for horror movies, not teenage slashers.I agree with your point that someone is supposed to grow out of early impressionable years and into something more mature, and the nature of what creates the sense of horror also changes.
But this is not to say horror movies simply disappear as you grow older. The TRUE horror remains. It is the plastic one that starts to look silly.
For instance, if you recall the M, there is that scene where mother sees an open door with no one behind. That is the moment that is bound to create accute sense of horror in mature audience, as the teenage one will simply miss it. But to me that was a horryfying moment. So no, not exactly scare me, but certainly disturb, and have potential of returning in a hightmare.
I feel sorry for your lack of imagination and inability to suspend disbelief. Were you ever a kid?
Rob CThe world was made for people not cursed with self-awareness
Many of the movies listed are more sci-fi than horror.
Personally, I go for mood/atmosphere, over shock or gore.
The exorcist may seem somewhat tame now,due to lots of imitators, but when it first came out, it was pretty radical. Its one of the only two horror movies that truely freaked me when I saw it.
Jack
The Exorcist this one I saw in London back then. I did get out in a kind of shock...
Few months back I bought in on DVD...Well it lost its power, but still enjoyable.
The first reaction often leaves lasting mark. Since I saw most of these when already an adult, not when they came out, they certainly did not create any strong reaction in me. I think I saw Exorcist in 1980, even though I knew all about it from the books. It was a complete ho-hum.But I in general do not consider all those devil/posession films worth my time.
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"...looking at people's lists.
I do not typically find anything horrific about things like Aliens, Exorcist, Dracula and several others listed in this thread. They produce nothing but boredom in me and no shivering or raised hairs."
I would agree with you on Dracula. I found it to be boring. The exorcist OTOH is IMO simply the best horror film ever made. But no movie works for every individual.
"I agree with Harmonia - I do think all that fake blood is so ridiculous it is not even funny."
What fake blood ae you talking about? Was there any in Dracula? There was very little in The Exorcist.
" Give me the Repulsion any day over that stuff.'
To each his own. I'll take the superior character development and intricate weaving of personal stories in The Exorcist any day. The introspective study of good v. evil and the brilliant directorial choice to allow the audience to make up their own minds as to the meaning and consequenses of evil and the human existance. you just don't find that kind of depth and layers in horror films.
"Aliens? Nothing a good mouse trap would not fix."
Not really sure how that even entered the discusion. Aliens is an action scifi movie. Alien OTOH was a real horror film. Classic lurking monster movie with great art direction. Very very cool movie. Had me on edge the whole way.
"I find it hard to beieve any adult would find it horrifying."
Wasn't meant to be horrifying.
at least after the oft mentioned baby alien jumping out of Hurt's chest, was when the head of the science officer/android, with slimy liquid spurting out of it, was telling Ripley they were facing a perfect indestructible being and they had no chance.For the 10 year old kid sitting a row in front of us, I believe that was his most memorable moment as well as he screamed hysterically at the top of his lungs, to his big brother(?) who evidently had drug him there, "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!!!". Poor kid was scared shitless. Doubt if he got a goodnights sleep the rest of the year. Big bro made him sit thru the whole thing.
I agree that this was most definitely a horror movie, the second most definitely an action flick, and damn good as well on its own merits.
Good Points and I thought of it while coming up with my list of horror films.I go with the effect at the time. How did it affect me while watching and how did it effect me in the future? Many of the movies on that list do very little for me now, but back when they first came out, they were quite effective in freaking me out. I love watching a horror, and going back to the most shocking part for me. The mind grows and doesn’t find it as shocking, but some still hold their own.
Regards
Bolt
Frankenstein one & two ( Bride of ) are very poetic films. They are not scary any more.
Or take " The Golem " this one is a wonderful gem.
Bride of Franenstien is a comedy. I never thought it was all that funny though.
...but looking over my list, it's apparent I go for psychological terror and understated horror movies. I have an aversion to gorefests. I'd rather be disturbed than pelted with blood. IMO, the viewer's fertile imagination is one of the best special FX a filmmaker has.These are personal favorites, not a "best of" list, and to get more movies on it, I won't mention Nosferatu, The Thing, The Shining, Them or The Day The Earth Caught Fire which you already have on your list.
My current favorite horror movie is The Devil's Backbone. I love it and recommend this gem from 2001.
Other faves:
Vampyr (Dreyer)
Faust (Murnau)
Bride of Frankenstein
The Old Dark House
The Haunting (this movie scared the heck outa me when I was 11.)
The Wicker Man
The Innocents
Onibaba (The Witch)
Repulsion
Rosemary's Baby
Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Alien
Cat People
VideodromeI love Roeg's Don't Look Now, but for the life of me, I can't classify it as "horror". The lines between thriller, sci-f- and horror are sometimes hard to draw.
Your best list = Your personal favourit. That being set...
As for the Devil´s Backbone, it is for me still too young for me and a second and if more viewing then, then....Cat People I presume the one from J. Tourneur, the one with imagination.... A good one.
As for Rosemary´s Baby as much I like back then I find it just pretentious now.
The only thing that remain stable is the change....
...I think Schrader's movie has its moments. It isn't a true remake, merely a borrowing of a few (very few) details from the original. It's not a film I want to watch very often, but I'm always interested in schrader's work. (This one is not among his best.)Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur made two more moody horror/thriller movies together: I Walked With A Zombie (a much better film than the title suggests) and The Leopard Man. Lewton was producer on Wise's The Haunting.
I still enjoy Rosemary's Baby, maybe becasue it skewers a certain kind of New Yorker of the time. It's hard to believe now, but RB was controversial when it was originally released - it was condemned by the Cathlic Film Office (Legion of Decency). It's no Repulsion but it's still holds up IMO.
I have a guilty pleasures list too - one of which, X: Man With The X-Ray Eyes - scared the hell out of me when I was 9 or 10. Ray Milland brings some class to this Roger Corman take on "there are some things man is not meant to tamper with" theme.
I also have a soft spot for Browning's Freaks, although it's not a great film.
I just watched that recently primarily to revist Ed. Bagley Jr.'s death scene. I'd remembered seeing it on cable when I was a kid and it scared the hell out of me. I still think it's one of the more shockingly violent scenes I've seen in film.I think the movie's pretty cheesy overall (the opening, "dreamy" "historic" sequences, esp.), but the cast is retroactively interesting, and, well, Kinski.... And she was dating Schrader at the time, apparently. Something of a head-scratcher to me.
Or " The Creature from the Black ( or green? ) Lagoon " was not bad at all. "The invisible Man " has charms too...And so on.
Childhood....
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The Exorcist is my top pick. One of the best movies ever made IMO not just horror movies. Saw it again lst night on the big screen at the Egyptian in Hollywood. This wa a version I had neve sen before. It had some of the added footage of the rerelease but not all of it and it had even more aded footage never released before. it also had some added effects. I did not like the added effects except for one. Some of the new footage was interesting and they did do a good job of tightening up the old added footage. All in all I still like the original as it was. While much of the added footage does explain things I like the movie better when it let the audience explain things for themselves. I also very much prefer the original ending. I disagree with Blatty and fully agree with Freidkin about that as well.Anyways. My other two greatest horror films that you didn't list. Alien and Jaws. Again two movies that I don't have to qualify as horror to call all time greats.
I totally disagree with yor take on The Thing. the original was a fairly typical 50s horror film. Nothing wrong with that but the remake, not really a remake but a more accurate version of the original book, is an awsome horror movie that broke all kinds of new ground. The paranoia in that movie is superb. I think it toaly holds up where as the first one is painfully dated. Guys walking around like Boris Karloff from Frankenstien just aren't scary to me.
No you are right, nothing scary anymore but just cult. And that may qualify it for the top 15. In my eyes.
One of the better " B " movie !
One of the few "horror films" that I own, it was shot on the set of "King Kong" and released a year earlier in 1932. I remembered reading the short story and gripping the few pages firmly until the conclusion. I also have "Roger Corman Classics" which features three films in one set.
-Bill
"The Most Dangerous Game" Is a great Film. I've been craving a good viewing. Back in High School we watched this film in English class. Had to write a report. Fun time!
I asked DVD Asylum to help with the title of that film a while back. I was happy to have found it with the great help here.
Yes I have it too. And I like it too.
I thought it might be classified as a "Sci-Fi" movie, but the discovery it brought forth would have been horrifying for sure! Logan's Run was another "scary future" film later in the era.
-Bill
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I know only the French original. It was really creepy1
There should be an international law against such travesties.
and The Michael Douglas Glenn Close slasher flick.
You should also see The Passion of Beatrice, where Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (the bad guy in Vanishing) rapes Julie Delpie, who plays his daughter... creepy is an understatement there.
He-he...You gave me the English title...L´Homme qui voulait savoir....And then....
When people post original titles I often have to translate first.
In no particular order, and not uncluding sci-fi:Juon: the grudge (Japanese theatrical version)
The Exorcist
Kairo/Pulse
Uzumaki
Dark Water (japanese version)
Into the mirror
A Tale of Two sisters
Legend of Hell House
Carnival of Souls
The Shining
Cursed (Japanese-haunted convenience store)
The Ring
Phone
Susperia
Ghost story
I was freaked for years after watching this. Saw it to young. I wasn’t comfortable with looking out a window when it’s dark out side. Saw it when it first came out at the Drive-In. The movie reeks of evil. Very interesting especially with all the vibrant color.I heard that there was going to be a re-make?
Argento filmed using expired Kodak film stock, then the film was processed overdeveloped, that's why the colors and lighting have that otherworldly look
This transferred well to laser disc
I also rate the Soundtrack by "Goblin", very creepy and works so well with the film
Always loved this one!Grins
Alien
Rosemary's Baby
The Omen
Original TV version (W/David Soul of all folks) of Salem's Lot
Classic freak you out adrenalin rush of a movie. I don’t think Id ever seen anything like the alien popping out of the guys chest. This movie had many special moments that seemed to darn real.My first viewing; Glad to get out of the darn theatre and on EARTH!
The Thing (original)
Frankenstein
War of the Worlds (original)
Night of the Living Dead
Them
Gorgo
Village of the Damned
The Wolfman
Alien
Earth vs The Flying Saucers
The Amazing Colossal Man
The Invisible Man
Jason and the Argonauts
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I am nto big on lists, so this is my contribution to the thread.
Forgotten from me. And I remember VERY intensely having love it. But would I now?
How does it stand?
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"Knife in the Water" this one I saw not too long ago. I found it now rather boring. Still a great film.
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Ok, here's goes...The Innocents (adapted from Turn of the Screw)
The Reptile (Hammer)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper version)
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Pasolini) don't see this on an amphetamine come-down!
The Exorcist
The Shining
Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
Freaks
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (first with Kevin McCarthy)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (fantastic!!)
Peeping Tom (Powell)well, that's 11 already...I'll stop there, I'm scared already thinking about all that!!!
Here's another 4 to make it up!
Psycho
Don't Look Now by Roeg (very scary!)
Silence of the Lambs (a classic)
Scanners (got to have a Cronenberg in there)
and a 16th...
Jacob's Ladder (disturbing)
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