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The Horror! The Horror!
Sep. 29th, 2004 09:49 amOn another bulletin board where I participate, someone asked for our favourite horror movies. Here's my response. Please comment with your faves.
The trio from my teen years are The Shining, The Exorcist and Alien, all of which opened me up to the thrill of chill and still kill me.
Jacob's Ladder is maybe my all time favourite horror movie and manages to leave indelible images of terror (the masked faces in the subway, the shaking heads at the party and in the limo) and places them in a majestically sad human context. Furthermore, it turns out to be one of the twistiest ghost stories ever and leaves you lots to think about.
For atmosphere and suspense, I offer the French film Diabolique.
Psycho and the Birds. Hitchcocks last great hurrahs and the last time he ruled and led the zeitgeist.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare in which he recontextualizes the whole Nightmare on Elm Street series and makes an impassioned case against those who would "protect" children from such horrors as the Brothers Grimm.
Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves is another excellent movie that plays with the horror implicit in fairy tales and also looks straight at the sexual heart of Red Riding Hood. Oh, and while we're at it, Snow White, a Tale of Terror with Sigourney Weaver as the evil stepmother who starts off totally sympathetic and slowly and sadly descends into evil witch.
And, finally, I am recommending to anyone who missed it, the recent Nicole Kidman horror The Others which is one of the best haunted house movies ever and nearly flawless in every way.
Again, please comment with your favourite horror and chiller flicks.
The trio from my teen years are The Shining, The Exorcist and Alien, all of which opened me up to the thrill of chill and still kill me.
Jacob's Ladder is maybe my all time favourite horror movie and manages to leave indelible images of terror (the masked faces in the subway, the shaking heads at the party and in the limo) and places them in a majestically sad human context. Furthermore, it turns out to be one of the twistiest ghost stories ever and leaves you lots to think about.
For atmosphere and suspense, I offer the French film Diabolique.
Psycho and the Birds. Hitchcocks last great hurrahs and the last time he ruled and led the zeitgeist.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare in which he recontextualizes the whole Nightmare on Elm Street series and makes an impassioned case against those who would "protect" children from such horrors as the Brothers Grimm.
Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves is another excellent movie that plays with the horror implicit in fairy tales and also looks straight at the sexual heart of Red Riding Hood. Oh, and while we're at it, Snow White, a Tale of Terror with Sigourney Weaver as the evil stepmother who starts off totally sympathetic and slowly and sadly descends into evil witch.
And, finally, I am recommending to anyone who missed it, the recent Nicole Kidman horror The Others which is one of the best haunted house movies ever and nearly flawless in every way.
Again, please comment with your favourite horror and chiller flicks.
