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In Reply to: Your top 15 best " horror movies " here are mine-------- posted by patrickU on July 24, 2005 at 07:15:03:
...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.
Follow Ups:
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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