Favorite Horror Movies

[paeng]

From The Smart Set: "Axis of Evil: The Night of the Hunter"

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article11040801.aspx

[Odalisque]

Quote Originally Posted by Gregory

A great one from Britain is Witchfinder General. Vincent Price (usually a tongue in cheek ham) is excellent and restrained. It has a great plot and the cinematography is excellent.

I that's true. I love Vincent Price camping it up in (for example) Dr Phibes or Masque of the Red Death -- but in Witchfinder General he showed that he could also play it straight (and do it extremely well).

[paeng]

I think I mentioned Valkoinen Peura earlier:

http://brightlightsfilm.blogspot.com...eura-1952.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045283/

How about The Story of Temple Drake, but it's not really a horror movie:

http://acidemic.blogspot.com/2009/01...of-temple.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024617/

The same goes for Strange Cargo,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033105/

[Odalisque]

I recently watched the film "Dagon" and was more favourably impressed than I expected. It's a rather loose adaptation of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (not "Dagon"). While departing dramatically from Lovecraft's story, I thought that it remained surprsingly close to the spirit of Lovecraft (in all its bleakness).

Dagon [2001]: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Merondez, Miguel Torrente, Dennis Paoli, H.P. Lovecraft: Amazon.co.uk: DVD

 

Dagon [2001]: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Merondez, Miguel Torrente, Dennis Paoli, H.P. Lovecraft: Amazon.co.uk: DVD

[hopfrog]

I enjoy'd Dagon, although it became too sadistic for my timid tastes. I thought the portrayal of the Deep Ones amazing -- they looked as I imagined HPL created them; ye one bloke whut was dragging itself along its cripple-cart was unnerving. It brought to vivid life the decay of Innsmouth.

[paeng]

I just saw Witchfinder; great ending! It reminds me of The Devils, which I don't want to watch again, but I'll certainly go for Huxley's book.

[rresmini]

the uninvited (korean: 4 Inyong shiktak), hour of the wolf, Onibaba, Possession (Zulawski), eyes without a face (les yeux sans visage), Carnival of Souls, Repulsion, Night/Curse of the Demon, the Nameless (nos sin nombre), In My Skin (dans ma peau), John Carpenter's the Thing.

[Severini]

It´s reat that rresmini mentioned hour of the wolf.I think I´d already said it but I will repeat: This is the most Ligottian movie I´ve ever watched. Others I like:

Jacob´s Ladder

The Thing

Angel Heart

Session 9

Carnival Of Souls

The Howling

Audition

Noroi:The Curse

The Last Broadcast (not an horror movie at its core, it´s more a movie about a fake murder investigation)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Although I also enjoyed the remake...

Beggotten (difficult to watch but a rewarding experience)

Incubus (due to the aura of murder and curse around this movie I [add to this the fact that the guy sold me the movie for US$ 1 at ebay]I only watched this movie once-and I was drunk!)

More recently, a movie which is very very good is a brittish one called Children (2008), a spanish movie called REC (remade as Quarantine) is very good too and I liked Stephen King´s "The Myst"...Grim ending.

[teguififthzeal]

Witchfinder General was pretty messed up for a Vincent Price movie.

[miguel1984]

Alien (1979)

Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

Freaks (1932)

Häxan (1922)

House of Usher (1960)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928)

Nosferatu (1922)

Nosferatu (1979)

Peeping Tom (1960)

The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

The Driller Killer (1979)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

The Haunting (1963)

The Legend of Hell House (1973)

The Music of Erich Zann (1980)

The Shining (1980)

The Thing (1982)

The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

The Wicker Man (1973)

Vampyr (1932)

Witchfinder General (1968)