This is a short excerpt of my all time favourite horror movie list - the actual list featuring about 573 films or more...
I just picked a few titles as I was afraid the more I thought about it the more the list might change and grow longer by the minute.
Maybe you'll find a movie that you haven't seen yet or maybe after reading this you'll want to see a film again that you haven't watched for longer - I'd be happy about both!
Botched
This is a film that defies categorisation.
It starts as a thriller with a heist gone
wrong and now Ritchie (Stephen Dorff) gets another assignment from his boss
(Sean Pertwee) to make up for his glitch. He’s supposed to steal an incredibly
valuable golden cross from a skyscraper with the help of two stupid Russian
mobsters.
Actually no big problem for a master thief
like him, but what happens in the building is so gory, funny, unexpected and
out of touch with the real world it has to be seen to be believed!!
This is a
rare little gem of a movie!
And I dare you to discover the “disco switch” - fucking hilarious!!
Directed by Marcus Dunstan, who wrote some scripts
for the Saw franchise and it clearly shows in this movie.
It’s about an ex- con who tried to go
honest, but when his girlfriend tells him she’s in debt to a mobster he breaks
into the villa of his employer as he knows the family has gone away. But once
inside he finds out that he is not alone in the house and that there’s no way
of getting out again.
Soon the sequel to The Collector called The
Collection will be out and this is a good occasion to watch the first part again.
Though the story may not always be logical (as in many horror movies) it has some really
gruesome effects and many scenes with nail-biting suspense that made me hold my
breath more than once!
Martyrs
One of the great horror films
that came out of France during the last few years!
A homage to Dario Argento it is definitely
not for the faint hearted and many critics said it features too many
unnecessary violence that is not related to the story which may be true and
it’s sometimes really an ordeal to watch.
Nevertheless the story of a woman that was
abducted as a girl and now seeks revenge on the people who did this to her is
one of the most original, suspenseful and visually great movies of the last
decade!
Still one of the greatest and
best psychological thrillers ever!!
They are just making a movie called Hitchcock about the
making of the movie of Psycho (sorry, did that make your brain also spin a
little?) and if I should ever meet Gus Van Sant he will get a decent beating
from me for his abomination of a remake!
Back to Psycho – what can I say? That a
black-and-white film from 1960 still has more suspense than many of today’s
movies?
That Hitchcock’s fabulous cinematography
still gets me all wet? (Mind you, he would have loved me saying that, the old
chauvinist!) Anthony Perkins was the best choice ever to play Norman Bates and
Hitchcock was surely way ahead of his time with this movie, just like he was
with Frenzy.
A true classic – the classic!
A true classic – the classic!
This John Carpenter (along with his Prince of Darkness and In The Mouth Of Madness) is still one of
my all time favourite movies ever!
The claustrophobic setting in Antarctica around
a team of scientists who get trapped at their base by an alien entity which leads to
nobody trusting anyone anymore and the great actors make The Thing really worth
watching over and over again.
And don’t forget the glorious effects (no
CGI in sight) are still state of the art and simply awesome and make any creature
lover salivate with delight!
The story is tight and there are scenes
that still make me jump after seeing it many times – like the blood testing
scene!
A feast for every horror fan!
A feast for every horror fan!
Deep Red
My favourite Dario Argento movie ever
(though Suspiria is up there right with it) and why not indulge in this
visually stunning masterpiece of cinema on Blu-Ray again?
It’s a great story
about a clairvoyant that senses a murder in the audience during her appearance and
who gets brutally killed later the same night. A pianist (David Hemmings)
witnesses the murder and tries to help but he’s too late and as he himself
becomes a suspect he tries to solve the mystery. Profondo Rosso is the epitome
of the aesthetics of murder and clearly shows what Argento used to be capable
of, the cinematography alone gets me a hard-on each time! Put that together
with one of the best soundtracks ever by the famous Goblin and you have a truly
cinematic masterpiece!
Re-Animator
The dream team of horror, producer Brian Yuzna and director Stuart Gordon, brought to screen Re-Animator, loosely based on a H.P. Lovecraft story, and up to this day Herbert West is one of the most loveable and loathsome villains, a character so incredibly well brought to life by Jeffrey Combs.
When medical student Dan Cain takes in his new wealthy roommate Herbert West his life will change forever as West will prove that what is dead doesn't have to stay dead and soon the neon green fluid is injected and blood starts squirting and the entrails start flying in this ultra gory classic!
Also very memorable appearances are by the late David Gale as the creepy Dr. Hill and for all the guys out there the wonderful boobs of Barbara Crampton are on display quite a lot!
Re-Animator is one of the goriest, funniest and most deviant horror movies of the 80's!
The dream team of horror, producer Brian Yuzna and director Stuart Gordon, brought to screen Re-Animator, loosely based on a H.P. Lovecraft story, and up to this day Herbert West is one of the most loveable and loathsome villains, a character so incredibly well brought to life by Jeffrey Combs.
When medical student Dan Cain takes in his new wealthy roommate Herbert West his life will change forever as West will prove that what is dead doesn't have to stay dead and soon the neon green fluid is injected and blood starts squirting and the entrails start flying in this ultra gory classic!
Also very memorable appearances are by the late David Gale as the creepy Dr. Hill and for all the guys out there the wonderful boobs of Barbara Crampton are on display quite a lot!
Re-Animator is one of the goriest, funniest and most deviant horror movies of the 80's!
One of the best Halloween
related films ever, though sadly I always find that not many people have heard of
it!
It combines four bloody and surprising anthologies all wrapped up on
Halloween eve and along with a wonderful set desgin it brings you many known actors, among them Anna Paquin and Brian Cox, undead kids, a creepy lil’ fucker called Sam
who has some very special treats with him and an entertaining 90 mins. of some
nice gore and fun!
Halloween
The title itself! The original!
Carpenter directs! The great Donald Pleasence! Michael Myers! Haddonfield! – ‘Nuff
said!
Wishing you a happy, gory and blood-red Halloween and maybe you should check your sweets before eating them! Just saying...
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