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Living Hell (2000)
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| Why did you come to this parade of executions? when it comes to postmodern horror, forget The Last Horror Show; this is much better/worse, depending on perspective. the last thirty minutes are so upsetting, i'll never watch this one again. |
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Jacob's Ladder (1990)
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| triggered an LSD flashback. terrifying. |
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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
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| opening ten minutes still cause pain. remake is gross but not scary. |
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Ultimate Edition) (1974)
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| pinnacle of rural horror, more than Deliverance, Last House on the Left or The Hills Have Eyes. again: remake is gross but not scary |
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The Wicker Man (Extended Version) (1974)
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| the ORIGINAL - i acknowledge no sequel to this masterpiece. seen it a half-dozen times, and the penultimate shock with the five swords jacks me every time. |
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Ringu (1998)
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| best final scare, ever. what a brilliant set-piece. american remake might be adequate, see no reason to find out |
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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| second best final scare, number two with a bullet. forget the poseur nay-sayers, if you saw this with no hype it truly generated fear in the final moments |
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Lord of Illusions (1995)
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| "I was born to murder the world." - Daniel von Bargen plays the scariest villain ever, bar none. |
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Candyman (1992)
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| that moment where Virginia Masden wakes up in the kitchen with the dead dog and a bloody meat cleaver in her hand? BRRR! |
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The Eye (2002)
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| what's scarier: the calligraphy scene or the elevator scene? |
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
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| some of the best Lovecraftian horror ever comitted to screen |
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Seven (1995)
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| most emotionally draining ending, ever. enough grotesqueries to qualify as horror, even though technically crime thriller/suspense |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Collector's Edition) (1978)
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| scared the crap out of me as a kid |
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Dagon (2001)
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| face-ripping goodness, but this is just a stand-in. John Carpenter got lucky; generally speaking, nobody does Lovecraft like Stuart Gordon. Gordon's most famous flick is Re-Animator, but his scariest Lovecraft offering is *easily* From Beyond! (Greencine: please obtain.) |
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Alien (1979)
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| Ridley Scott proved that suspense + sci-fi = true horror ... |
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Event Horizon (1997)
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| ... and Paul W. S. Anderson ruthlessly capitalized on that proof. |
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Phantasm (1979)
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| Cheesy, humorous and dated. But no-holds-barred in terms of using every tool necessary (jump-cuts, gross-out and generally dark tone) to produce fear. probably the first U.S. film influenced by Argento's nonlinear disregard for plot evidenced in Suspiria |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
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| "I told you I'd be back!" -- damn, that moment jacked me. That DeNiro would portray that moment, obvious; that Branagh would choose to depict that moment really surprised me. Dark and unpleasant; true fear. |
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Rosemary's Baby (Criterion) (Disc 1 of 2) (1968)
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| yikes. |
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Suspiria (1977)
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| Like a textbook for horror cliches, but transcends any particular one and creates a unique horror archtype. Surreal postmodern haunted house with hyper-saturated colors and shocking Goblins soundtrack. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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| humor combined with brutal and sadistic jump-cut shocks (Nazi zombies? few have gone there. Landis is ruthless) |
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The Thing (1982)
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| Carpenter is brutal, too. I find this much scarier than John's more venerated Halloween offerings. |
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Maniac (1980)
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| Sick. More misogynistic (or more honest in it's depiction of misogyny?) than Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, but ruthlessly frightening. Friday the 13th has nothing on this little bit of nastiness. |
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Dead Alive (1992)
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| may nothing be more over the top than this |
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Psycho (Special Edition) (1960)
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| childhood nightmares |
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The Hitcher (1986)
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| i'll never forget Jennifer Jason Leigh's final exeunt. disturbing. |
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Lost Highway (1997)
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| catch a glass table with the head? shudder... Lynch knows fear, all too well. |
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