See you on the othersideDo funfair haunted houses still exist, or are they obsolete in this era of torture porn and human centipedes? Zombie; 97. But as he turns to the face the camera, there’s a ghoulish deadness behind his eyes. TH, Director: Brad Anderson Cast: Peter Mullan, David CarusoIt’s a madhouse!This microbudget American indie was such a flop that it didn’t even get a cinema release in the UK. It might be sentimental at times, but when it scares – and it really does scare – it’s a chilling reminder that, no matter your age, clowns are terrifying. Try another? Soon, Griffin is reported dead by suicide. Kobayashi’s stylised use of colour is more symbolic than naturalistic, and coupled with the avant garde electronic score by Toru Takemitsu, which also incorporates sampled natural sounds, it generates both a haunting atmosphere and some subtle supernatural chills. Effectively imprisoned by her father, who feels responsible for the car accident in which she was disfigured, the infantilised Christiane is like a caged baby bird waiting to find its wings. Peter Mullan is superbly cast as Gordon, the boss of an asbestos removal company tasked with clearing out an abandoned mental hospital. On one level this is pure throwback, an old-school tentacles-and-all monster movie which really comes alive in its glittering monochrome DVD version. What’s important here, though, is whether any of these newcomer to the horror movie genre have made their way on to our extensive, expert-assisted list of the greatest and scariest films ever. A tale of hypnotism, hysteria and multiple murder set in a twisted, folksy German landscape filtered through the disturbed imagination of a madman, its fractured landscapes reflect the shattered psyche of a nation in defeat, but they also prefigure the greater horrors to come. Full of acid wit and howlingly funny, ‘The Old Dark House’ is one of the most giddily glorious films you’re ever likely to see. This is a giddy, subversive, wonderfully watchable silent shocker. Dr Frankenstein has given up playing God and tinkering with cadavers, but his dastardly mentor Praetorious blackmails him into creating a mate (Lanchester) for the monster. She survives the accident, but comes to with no memory of what transpired. But what’s brilliant about ‘The Devils’ is that Russell achieves a real, serious sense of fear and claustrophobia alongside the ample lunacy. That anxiety resonates with anyone stifled by conformity, not just Ike-era suburbanites but the makers of movies and art. Following one hellish night in the life of a Barcelona TV reporter as she and her cameraman accompany some firemen on a call to a suspiciously quiet apartment building, ‘[REC]’ didn’t just open the doors to a franchise, it jumpstarted a movement. Twelve year-old Oskar (Hedebrant) falls for the girl next door Eli (Leandersson). Ehle is great and in a just world Clark would be winning awards for her remarkable piece of physical acting. ‘Black Sunday’ is a film crammed with surreal and still shocking imagery: while it’s most famous for the opening scene in which a spiked mask is hammered onto the face of dark witch Barbara Steele, there are many more wonderfully nasty sights to behold, from an empty eye socket crawling with maggots to a walking corpse who looks suspiciously like Sonny Bono. Or the aforementioned young lady, whose meek and mild exterior hides a dark secret? Adapting their own short ‘Within the Woods’, childhood friends Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Campbell secured funding from local businesses and traipsed off to the forest to make one of the most ferocious, original and unrelenting horror movies of all time. Conceived alongside ‘Persona’, Bergman offers the full horror of an artist’s breakdown and crumbling of his marriage (and perhaps his wife’s mind too) – all of which is presented, at times, as a full-on Gothic nightmare, with characters walking on ceilings, men appearing in hallucinations as birds and a gruesome flashback in which Von Sydow’s character remembers attacking a young boy with a rock. The unsettling moral ambiguities of Frank’s relationship with his ex-lover Julia (now his brother’s wife) resonate far more than the conventional sub-plot involving his teenage niece Kirsty. Stephen King got the idea for the novel, his first, in the girls’ locker room of a college where he was working as a caretaker. Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Charm offensiveA horror fan’s sanctuary during the tame Vincent Prince era of the late ’50s and ‘60s, Hammer Film Productions injected the tired genre with garish bloody colour, shocking violence and the remarkably committed acting duo of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. And ‘Vampyr’ is different, a film like no other. The film is written, directed and co-produced by Jordan Peele, in his directorial debut. The problem, he said, was that ghost-sceptic Kubrick was ‘a man who thinks too much and feels too little’. But is he? ‘The Tenant’ may be set in the present, but it’s hard not to impose the horror of Polanski’s own childhood experiences in the Warsaw ghetto on to this story of the walls closing in on one man’s world. The 34 Most Terrifying Horror Movie … And while the franchise may have descended swiftly into self-parody – they marketed Freddy Krueger dolls to pre-teens, if you recall – the original remains one of the most daring, inventive and downright terrifying shockers of the last century. The Marines’ first survey of the abandoned living quarters on LV-426 is pure haunted-basement creepiness, and the facehugger attack rivals ‘The Thing’ for slimy invention. Boy meets girl. Here’s the full list of movies featured in Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments: 100. This is the intelligent, subtle face of horror, as Polanski limits the specifics to a minimum and keeps us guessing as to how much is going on merely in the mind of Mia Farrow’s character as she comes to believe she’s been impregnated by a creepy bunch of well-to-do Manhattanites with a connection to the occult. They slink off to skinny dip. filmspectrum.org - The Film Spectrum . Eli is a vampire: ‘I’ve been this age for a very long time.’ Director Alfredson didn’t want polished performances, so cast non-professional actors. Anticipating many now familiar conventions, Clark cranks up the level of threat through his pioneering use of prowling shots from the psycho killer's point of view, reinforced here by a discordant sound design. Kill! The 50 Best Horror Movies. Zombie; 97. Tomas Alfredson’s creepy horror, whose snowy setting suits its sadness, is a coming of age story about falling in love for the first time. NF, Untempered SteeleFor students of horror, 1960 is remembered as the year of ‘Peeping Tom’ and ‘Psycho’. NF, Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Where did our love go?No mainstream genre has such a propensity for downbeat or uncertain endings as horror – and the final scene of ‘The Vanishing’ might just top them all. That uncertainty is doubtless the reason for its low placing in this list, because there’s no question about the film’s quality: this is a near-perfect example of pure cinema. The 100-best list was unveiled in 1998. The Birds Time Out’s panel of experts voted it so. And almost a century later, at least one sequence here remains genuinely frightening: the midnight attack on a helpless young woman by a shambling, somnambulant strangler. ‘Jaws’ broke box office records, but the production had been such a disaster the crew renamed it ‘Flaws’. The drip, drip, drip of dread of Hideo Nakata’s film will turn your stomach to ice – it’s not for nothing that ‘Ring’ is highest grossing horror in Japanese film history. Sure, it looks a little rough around the edges now (and that still censored tree-rape scene is just unnecessarily vicious), but ‘The Evil Dead’ remains an inspiration for first-time filmmakers, a testament to the power of plasticine, glue and gumption. The summer release of this brilliant ‘Wicker Man’-ish horror from fast-rising US filmmaker Ari Aster was accompanied by the sound of a thousand Scandinavian holiday plans being torn up. The result is more accurately nightmarish than almost any other film on this list, a true descent into the depths of meaningless, unpredictable, terrifyingly beautiful horror, with a scorpion-sharp sting in the tail. It just makes the experience all the more terrifying. TH. Director George Romero insists that much of what made his debut so groundbreaking – the in-your-face documentary camerawork, the unadorned interiors and unpolished performances – were just the necessary result of zero-budget filmmaking. Torrance is not tortured by ghosts but by inadequacy and alcoholism. While the original movie was (depending on who you believe) an examination of either McCarthyist conformity or encroaching communism, the remake takes things into weirder, more oblique territory, lampooning the fallout from the ’60s ideal with its lentils-and-beansprouts nature freaks and its bandwagon-jumping psychotherapy converts. TH, Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, More than just the ‘sunken place’Horror films are at their best when the fear stems from the human condition itself. NF, Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, The pods next doorIt’s time to get beyond the tired political allegories always trotted out for this classic – is it red-baiting or stealth anti-McCarthyism? Is ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ the best film inspired by Mary Frankenstein’s nineteenth-century bone-chiller? TH, Cast: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, Long live the new flesh Cronenberg’s most prescient film explores, through the eyes and media-altered mind of sleazy cable television programmer Max Renn (James Woods), the dangerous world imagined by the censors – one in which exposure to extreme images destroys the viewer’s ability to distinguish between plastic reality and perverse fantasy. The lord of the manor dies and his young daughter is gravely ill, bite wounds to her neck. There were reports of audience members fainting during the facial surgery scenes, but for Franju this was a tale of anguish rather than a horror movie per se. TH, Nothing is what it seemsVoted the best British film of all time in a 2010 Time Out poll of experts, Nicolas Roeg’s adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s short story isn't just a masterpiece of terror, it’s also a work of bottomless empathy and slender, spectral beauty. TH, Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Play misty for meIf ‘Halloween’ was an urban legend come to life, its follow-up was John Carpenter’s stab at an old-fashioned campfire tale. Blunt and co will reprise their roles for the sequel, which also adds Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou to the cast, and which is due in 2021. TH, Buy, rent or watch 'The Night of the Hunter', Schools out forever There’s much fun to be had with French filmmaker Clouzot’s boarding school-set puzzler from 1955, a suspenseful comic tease with added frights. Legendary make-up ace Jack Pierce’s look for the Bride – barbed wire scars, diva make-up, frizzed out hair streaked with lightening bolts – and Lanchester’s jolting movements, eerily innocent, make this an American gothic to remember. A tale of hypnotism, hysteria and multiple murder set in a twisted, folksy German landscape filtered through the disturbed imagination of a madman, its fractured landscapes reflect the shattered psyche of a nation in defeat, but they also prefigure the greater horrors to come. And he did it all with a wink and a smile. Seduced by cryptic messages asking, ‘Do you want to meet a ghost?’, obsessive internet users abandon friends, family and colleagues. Boris Karloff’s sonorous intro and epilogue also help. An American Werewolf in London (1981). What’s remarkable is how clearly he delineates between them: Elliot the steely, ‘masculine’ shark; Beverly the passive ‘feminine’ carer. Merke dir den Film jetzt vor und wir benachrichtigen dich, sobald er verfügbar ist. Creepshow; 98. As the late-night Videodrome channel’s violent imagery distorts Max’s perception, we are forced to share his subjective point of view. The use of wide angles is gorgeously unsettling – director Robert Wise is clearly a student of Orson Welles, whose off-kilter influence is all over the film. That it still succeeds, almost four decades later, is testament to Friedkin’s remarkable vision. I thought ranking the best horror movies of all time would be a fun, freaky project. But more than half a century after it was made, ‘The Night of the Hunter’ continues to shrug off attempts at easy categorisation: if it’s a horror movie, then it’s also an adventure story, a crime thriller, a coming-of-age drama and a fairy tale. An insidiously cheap creepshow that feels like it’s being projected directly from your nightmares (Harvey used an Arriflex camera – typically used for newsreels – as a cost-cutting measure, adding an unsettling edge of realism), the film tells the barebones story of a woman who loses a drag race by driving off a bridge and into the river below. The films were chosen via a survey of 2,542 horror fans who were asked to name their top 10 scariest films of all time. Eli is spookily ageless, most memorably in a scene stroking the face of her devoted middle-aged minder/body-snatcher like he’s her wayward son. In the pipeline were films like John Krasinski's sequel to ‘A Quiet Place’, ‘Run’ with Sarah Paulson, the Janelle Monáe-starring ‘Antebellum’, and even a soft reboot of the ‘Saw’ franchise starring Chris Rock. The shark looked fake, the effects were terrible. Forty years of sucking cocks in hellBy the ’70s, horror had divided into two camps: on one hand, there were the ‘real life’ terrors of ‘Psycho’ and ‘Night of the Living Dead’, films that brought horror into the realm of the everyday, making it all the more shocking. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), 16. It’s a complete absence of pleasure that Pasolini provokes in this disturbing portrait of a society gone to the dogs. Home; Movies; The top 100 TV and movie monsters; Features The top 100 TV and movie monsters. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Everyone has their own top 10 films that scared them the most. 100 Movies (Updated) 2008: AFI's 10 Top 10: The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. DC, Ghosts of the civil deadFrom its breathtaking opening shot from inside the bomb bay of a cruising warplane, you know you’re in the hands of a master with ‘The Devil’s Backbone’. DC, Cordon bleugh ‘Don't tell him anything personal. I Walked With a Zombie, 1943. So props to first-time filmmaker Jennifer Kent for never shying away from her central character’s predicament: yes, our heroine Amelia is being stalked by something supernatural, but we’re never sure if it’s made the life of this grieving single mother appreciably worse. TH, Buy, rent or watch 'The Devil's Backbone', Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Down in the tube station at midnight‘Unrelenting’ is a word often applied to horror movies, but it’s rarely appropriate: even the most extreme movies need the occasional moment of downtime to allow the audience to catch their breath. The film was adapted from JB Priestley’s novel ‘Benighted’, and sees a young couple, a chorus girl, a war veteran and a gruff self-made industrialist take shelter in a tumbledown Welsh mansion during a rainstorm. There’s a plot of sorts, but it’s fairly standard: a young woman inherits a hotel which happens to have been built over a gateway to hell. Horror had never been this raw before, and it could be argued that it hasn’t since, the sheer grimy ugliness of the piece leading some to walk out, others to cry sadism and many more to acclaim the film as a modern masterpiece; horror in its purest, most unforgiving form. They … In a year dominated by monolithic Hollywood entertainments like ‘The Ten Commandments’ and ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ (much admired, cold to the touch), Don Siegel’s low-budget thriller was a cry of real emotion. NF, Cast: Edith Scob, Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Flaying alive Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Skin I Live In’ was inspired in part by Franju’s clinical, monochrome movie about an obsessive professor of plastic surgery. Carrie’s secret is that she has telekinetic powers, which are about to wreak an apocalypse at the school prom. CC, Birth of a nationThe film that made it all happen, Murnau’s loose, unofficial adaptation of Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ may not have been the first horror movie (that honour probably goes to George Meliés’s ‘Le Manoir du Diable’) but it’s certainly the most influential. 2. Seven ‘Nightmare’ sequels and little more than a decade later, they funded the entire ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. The film’s power lies in the way Tourneur subtly explores these themes without ever crossing the line of taste, or losing sight of the emotional tragedy at the story’s core. Even the most hackneyed scenes, such as a séance in which a scribbling medium attempts to contact the unquiet spirit of the murdered boy, are staged with consummate skill and emotional conviction. Let’s call it a happy collaboration. I like gin,’), who’s constantly bickering with his batty, deaf sister. 100. Thanks for creating an account! Hitchcock often scares by suggestion as crows appear on telegraph wires and the noise of them becomes increasingly intense – but he also shows full-on, unsettling aerial attacks, and the special effects for these scenes still endure. TH, Cast: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Sorority sisters in pre-slasher slay ride shockerA low-budget Canadian precursor of the ‘seasonal slasher’ cycle that was kicked into gear by the success of ‘Halloween’ four years later, Clark’s imaginatively nasty film traps a group of college students in a snow-dusted sorority house, where they are terrorised by an obscene phone caller before being bumped off one by one. Spielberg made a virtue out of necessity in the edit, switching the focus to the actors’ reactions: most chillingly after the shark strikes on a crowded beach. AK, Cast: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Sean Chapman, Doug Bradley, Skinless wonderFrom the disturbed imagination of gifted British fabulist Clive Barker comes a Faustian pact with a difference, involving a mysterious puzzle-box, a painful rebirth and the diet of human flesh needed to put the skin back on the flayed muscle of jaded sensualist Frank’s resurrected body. What gives us the oomph to spend 24 hours at vintage theaters for horror movie marathons? View Gallery 50 photos. The village is suffering under an ancient curse – and those who speak out about it meet bloody and untimely ends. The youth are about to quake. For this story, a husband (Michael) is possessed, dragged into the mirror and inspired to try and kill his wife (Withers). (#1 being the best.) Religious dogma, political division and – finally and devastatingly – military intervention all go under Darabont’s shakeycam microscope, resulting in perhaps the most intelligent, compelling and heartbreaking horror movie of the century so far. It’s kind of the same, but it’s also not really the same — overall, it feels like something’s been missing from the experience. In this case he was on his uppers – flat broke in London – and was offered the chance to make a horror film. The masterstroke, of course, was hiring Swiss madman HR Giger as the film’s chief designer – his work brings a slippery, organic grotesquerie to what could’ve been a straight-up bug hunt (© ‘Aliens’). From the opening sequence in which a masked nerd terrorises Drew Barrymore with a slasher-flick pop quiz before splattering her guts all over the lawn, this was a new, fun, shallow-but-sharp breed of scary movie in which the sharing of movie lore between characters and audience somehow conspired to make everything feel more convincing – if never exactly ‘real’. There’s not a splash of green vomit or a single spinning head in director Richard Donner’s suspenseful, Bible-thumping horror classic. He’s in London to debunk a devil cult, whose apparently avuncular leader, Dr. Julian Karswell (MacGinnis), he takes for a harmless fake (he should really be paying more attention to Karswell’s devilish goatee). TH, Hail to the king, babyIn which Bruce Campbell reveals himself to be the Fangoria generation’s answer to Buster Keaton. There’s nothing too nasty in this effects-packed ghost story – the odd face-rip, the occasional pop-up corpse – but the effect is more bracing and enjoyable than a hundred ‘Hostel’s. Yes it has blood, ‘tools for operating on mutant women’ and a general tone of deep disquiet, but it’s first and foremost a study of domestic psychosis under unique circumstances. This is a great horror film about the horror of cinema itself. The The rest of the film is powerful stuff – Bervoets plays a young man whose girlfriend is snatched at French truck stop by serial murderer Donnadieu, an otherwise ordinary family man. By this point, it’s hard to tell who we’re really rooting for, the hateful, bickering soldier ‘heroes’ or their shuffling, bloodthirsty zombie captives, personified by the ‘thinking zombie’, the oddly lovable Bub. Black Sunday (aka The Mask of Satan, Revenge of the Vampire) (1960), 70. No, you wouldn’t want him as your psychiatrist. Horror films are at their best when the fear stems from the human condition itself. There are already two sequels planned, so it might not be immune from the frightful follow-up. And her eyes bleed if she goes into his flat uninvited. Aja’s tendency towards unreconstructed, old-school chauvinism surfaced again in his remakes of ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ and ‘Piranha’, though in a more humorous vein. By solving the puzzle, Frank enters the world of exquisite cruelty presided over by Pinhead (Bradley) and his fellow Cenobites – glamorous sadists with a penchant for ripped flesh and transcendent pain. DE, Cast: Julian West, Jan Hieronimko, Sybille Schmitz, The first bite is the deepest In 1932, the New York Times’s film critic was not impressed. It also contains the queasiest dinner scene since ‘La Grande Bouffe’, involving spurting blood, dissolving flesh, human ears and bowls of claggy rice pudding. DC, Change you can believe inTime travel has many enticing possibilities, but one of the most enjoyable would be to travel back to 1982 and tell John Carpenter that his new movie would someday score sixth place in a list of the 100 best horror movies – even beating his own iconic ‘Halloween’. What makes ‘Freaks’ a horror film is its disturbing, macabre ending, as the ‘freaks’ chase Cleo and her strong-man lover through the forest – though of course the real horror here is the cruelty of the so-called ‘normals’. JR, Buy, rent or watch 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter. But like Sherlock Holmes’s evil shadow, Dr Lecter makes everyone else look so dull. With the help of his lover/assistant, Louise (Valli), Professeur Génessier (Brasseur) abducts and peels the faces off young women. Thank goodness! Psychologically, ‘The Birds’ is perhaps not Hitchcock’s most fully realised film, but it’s certainly one of his most open as we are left to wonder why, exactly, Hedren’s fledgling romance with Rod Taylor and his claustrophobic relationship with his mum (Jessica Tandy) inspire such avian terror. TH, Sister actIn lesser hands, the wild theatrics and camp stylings of Ken Russell’s story of religious persecution and demonic possession in seventeenth-century France would turn ‘The Devils’ into no more than a fleshy, hysterical romp. My Top 100 scariest movies, that I've seen. TH, Buy, rent or watch 'Night of the Living Dead', Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, An elegantly choreographed dance of death‘Fear is a 370-degree centigrade body temperature. Elisabeth Moss plays Cecilia, an architect traumatised by her abusive tech entrepreneur husband Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). But, here’s the thing: Fear will always find us, no matter what changes, and this list is definitive proof of that notion. Then, with one staggeringly ill-judged and gob-smackingly offensive plot twist, the entire film falls apart. Welcome to the tourist island of Amity. The lead performances are remarkable – Isabelle Adjani’s explosive freakout in the metro station remains one of cinema’s most devastating kicks in the face – and the script is both politically bold and emotionally draining. With “Suspiria” I wanted 400 degrees.’ Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s grasp of human body chemistry may be flawed, but his intentions are unmistakable: this was his attempt to make the scariest movie he could imagine, and hang all other considerations. The 100 best horror movies - the scariest films ranked by experts. NF, Director: Kiyoshi KurosawaCast: Kumiko Aso, Haruhiko Katô, Koyuki, Ghosts in the machineKurosawa’s cautionary philosophical tale uses the familiar tropes of dystopian sci-fi and supernatural horror to explore an internet-fixated world where online communication has eroded social cohesion, replacing personal relationships and human communication with alienated loneliness. Your accounts lets you Digg (upvote) stories, save stories to revisit later, and more. Watching masked murderers hunt down hapless idiots or seeing nuclear families flee from the fractured promise of the American dream is a spiritually cynical escape from our own problems. Stephen King, on whose novel the film was based, was famously unimpressed. What’s so unsettling about Peele’s film, however, is just how zeitgeisty it is. Inspired by the birth of his own child Jennifer, Lynch creates a mood of near-unbearable, panicky fear, depicting the sprog in question as more a fleshy hot water bottle than an actual human baby. What made you scared said so much about you as a person. And why have things started going bump in the night? TH, Is that a carving knife in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?Movie snobs always have to point out that Bob Clark’s ‘Black Christmas’ actually birthed the slasher subgenre, but it was the astonishing success of John Carpenter’s breakthrough indie ($70 million worldwide on a $300,000 budget) that really set things in motion. Simone Simon plays Irena, A Serbian immigrant whose repressive childhood – involving, the film implies, sexual abuse – causes her to transform into a deadly panther in moments of arousal. At the isolated Overlook Hotel in the film is written, directed co-produced... 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