Scaaaaaaary Movies
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brigdhThe Guardian came out with a list today of The 25 Best Horror Movies. So I'm inventing a meme! Instructions: Bold the ones you've seen, italicize those you've seen part of.
1) Psycho
2) Rosemary's Baby
3) Don't Look Now
4) The Wicker Man*
5) The Shining
6) The Exorcist
7) Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
8) Let the Right One In
9) Vampyr
10) Peeping Tom
11) The Innocents
12) Ringu**
13) The Haunting (1963)
14) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)+
15) Dead of Night
16) The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
17) Halloween (1978)
18) Bride of Frankenstein
19) Les Diaboliques
20) Dracula (1958)++
21) Audition
22) The Blair Witch Project
23) The Evil Dead/Evil Dead II
24) Carrie
25) Les Vampires
I didn't do very well, considering how much I love horror movies. I will pretend this is because The Guardian has no taste. I think a top 25 list definitely needs some of these: A Tale of Two Sisters (SO SCARY), Jaws, Night of the Living Dead (I mean, come on, not one zombie movie?), Silence of the Lambs (LOVE IT), 28 Days Later, Scream (since it basically recreated the slasher-if not all horror- genre), Young Frankenstein (if you're going to do horror-comedy, I much prefer this to the Evil Dead series), and [Rec].
So tell me, O LJ: which of the movies I haven't seen should I watch first?
* the 1973 version, not the remake, in case that isn't obvious. I have seen the remake! It is hilariously awful.
** I actually think the US remake is the scarier movie. But it's true that the Japanese original makes more sense (usually not an attribute of Japanese horror movies!).
+ Another one that, eh, didn't work so much for me. I think I was too jaded by the time I got around to watching it.
++ I have seen several other film versions of Dracula, but not this one. Still, I can't believe they didn't go with the original Bela Lugosi one! That moment when they find Renfield on the ship and he just laughs... *shudders*
1) Psycho
2) Rosemary's Baby
3) Don't Look Now
4) The Wicker Man*
5) The Shining
6) The Exorcist
7) Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
8) Let the Right One In
9) Vampyr
10) Peeping Tom
11) The Innocents
12) Ringu**
13) The Haunting (1963)
14) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)+
15) Dead of Night
16) The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
17) Halloween (1978)
18) Bride of Frankenstein
19) Les Diaboliques
20) Dracula (1958)++
21) Audition
22) The Blair Witch Project
23) The Evil Dead/Evil Dead II
24) Carrie
25) Les Vampires
I didn't do very well, considering how much I love horror movies. I will pretend this is because The Guardian has no taste. I think a top 25 list definitely needs some of these: A Tale of Two Sisters (SO SCARY), Jaws, Night of the Living Dead (I mean, come on, not one zombie movie?), Silence of the Lambs (LOVE IT), 28 Days Later, Scream (since it basically recreated the slasher-if not all horror- genre), Young Frankenstein (if you're going to do horror-comedy, I much prefer this to the Evil Dead series), and [Rec].
So tell me, O LJ: which of the movies I haven't seen should I watch first?
* the 1973 version, not the remake, in case that isn't obvious. I have seen the remake! It is hilariously awful.
** I actually think the US remake is the scarier movie. But it's true that the Japanese original makes more sense (usually not an attribute of Japanese horror movies!).
+ Another one that, eh, didn't work so much for me. I think I was too jaded by the time I got around to watching it.
++ I have seen several other film versions of Dracula, but not this one. Still, I can't believe they didn't go with the original Bela Lugosi one! That moment when they find Renfield on the ship and he just laughs... *shudders*
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Date: 2010-10-23 11:04 pm (UTC)Audition is...interesting. It's not my favorite of the Japanese horror genre. (Which would be 2002's Dark Water, if you're curious.)
ETA: Also, I was in denial about you not having seen Let The Right One In. Run. Do not walk.
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Date: 2010-10-27 03:27 pm (UTC)I am making my through the rest of this list- the ones available on Netflix streaming. Which does not include The Haunting, unfortunately, but does have Audition. I saw the US remake of Dark Water (very bad), but not the original. I'll have to seek it out!
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Date: 2010-10-27 04:36 pm (UTC)The things I like about it is the atmosphere, the slow creep, and just how horrible (in concrete terms) the payoff really is. The occurrences are unsettling, sure, but the realization about what's been happening/present the entire time is really effective for me.
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Date: 2010-11-04 01:00 am (UTC)OMG, the bad suck! Flee! Save yourself!