In Reply to: Favorite seasonal film, or: what movie(s) scare the bejesus out of you? posted by musetap on October 28, 2009 at 13:44:16:
...dread. Hah! Not with blood. A litle sanguinity goes a long way for me. I don't find gore very appealing.
I don't think of myself as a horror movie fan, but if you look at the list below you'll see that's not quite true - in fact, I'm a big fan of *good* scary movies, especially ghost stories. I simply prefer my creepy flicks a bit more elegant and restrained than say...Halloween or Saw 2.
BTW: Please don't let the fact that many of these movies are available through The Criterion Collection put you off! I'm also quite happy to add a new movie to my fave list this year: Let The Right One In. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it (and I know many of you already have.)
In no particular order:
Bride Of Frankenstein
The Old Dark House
The Devil's Backbone
Eyes Without A Face
The Haunting
The Legend of Hell House
Vampyr
The Innocents
Rosemary's Baby
Freaks
Onibaba
Kwaidan
Haxan
The Wicker Man
Hour Of The Wolf
The Man Who Laughs
Cat People
Don't Look Now
Nosferatu
Woman In The Dunes
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Follow Ups
- I like my scary movies atmospheric, understated, and dripping with... - Harmonia 16:31:07 10/30/09 (5)
- Good list but... no - tinear 20:47:16 11/02/09 (0)
- Woman In The Dunes - PhilJ 17:00:04 11/01/09 (0)
- Couple more atmospheric creepy Criterions - cfraser 19:40:57 10/30/09 (0)
- That seems a fine list indeed, and "Let The Right One In"... - musetap 16:48:38 10/30/09 (1)
- "Let The Right One In"...the cats-how 'd they shoot that? - Des 13:26:07 11/01/09 (0)