Horror Films To Cuddle Up To (18 titles)
No matter how bad we feel, no matter how hard it was to face the day that morning, these films can help. This is a list of my personal favourites to switch on when I just can't manage to leave the house. This is my horror blanket people....welcome.
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Alien - Director's Cut
Turning on this film is like going home. Relax in the silence of space. Be comforted by that huge, dribbling, teeth-ridden alien. There, don't you feel better?
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Alien - Director's Cut
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright
Director: Ridley Scott
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For this digitally remastered special edition of what many have called the "scariest movie ever made," Ridley Scott has incorporated new footage never before seen in movie houses. Working closely with Twentieth Century Fox, Scott oversaw a restoration of the original film's negative, as well as ..read more »
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from 30,926 members
Alien Quadrilogy
You've seen the original, now skip to the end to witness the beautiful birth of proud Ripley's offspring. Those deep dark eyes. The cutest gurgle. The powerful jaws. The miracle of birth. If this doesn't warm your heart you are made of stone. Stone I tell you!
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Alien Quadrilogy
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt
Director: Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher
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A box set featuring 'Alien' which is the sci-fi story of seven astronauts who become the victims of a galactic horror when they stumble upon an alien life-form never seen before. The nightmare begins... 'Aliens' In this sequel to 'Alien', Ellen Ripley returns as the sole survivor of the spaceship ..read more »
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Jaws
Nothing faster. Nothing stronger. Indestructible! Well, not quite. But you keep coming back for more though don't you? Yes, you loooove the shark.
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Jaws
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Steven Spielberg
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From the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, Steven Spielberg directed this thrill ride of terror. During the height of beach season, the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down ..read more »
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from 39,954 members
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
There's nothing more warming than an invite to dinner. Enjoy the hearty soup but please, mind the chainsaw; it tickles. Yee heehee!
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, William Vail
Director: Tobe Hooper
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A quiet summer drive through rural Texas ends in violent tragedy when several youths encounter a chainsaw-wielding psychopathic killer and his demented family. Tobe Hooper's gruesome tale of terror is loosely based on the Ed Gein killings, which actually occurred in Plainsfield, Wisconsin. Shot in ..read more »
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from 8,338 members
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
What a wonderful ending! Tis fuzzier than Donald's dashing moustaches.
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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy
Director: Philip Kaufman
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In this remake of the 1956 cult classic, terror slowly and silently strikes San Francisco as the city is mysteriously covered by alien spores that produce strangely beautiful flowers. Unbeknownst to the people, the flowers are the bearers of alien pods that make a spiderlike webbing that captures ..read more »
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from 4,588 members
Hellraiser
Simply wonderful. Enjoy the stylisation of the Cenobites; those pins, those chattering teeth, that throat pinned back to resemble a...well you get the picture. I defy anyone to watch this without grinning with pleasure.
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Hellraiser
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence
Director: Clive Barker
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Having made his reputation as one of the most prolific and gifted horror writers of his generation (prompting Stephen King to call him "the future of horror"), Clive Barker made a natural transition to movies with this audacious directorial debut from 1987. Not only did Barker serve up a chilling ..read more »
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from 9,565 members
The Ordeal
French title being 'Calvaire,' this is a perfect piece with which to enjoy a glass of red wine. Sit back and let the locals' dancing stomp away that rainy day...
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The Ordeal
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Nahon
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
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Stranded somewhere in the Ardennes after his van breaks down, Marc Stevens, a travelling cabaret singer, is taken in by a kind inn-keepr who offers to fix his van and give him shelter for the night. But the motivation for inn-keeper's actions soon changes from altruism to a fervent desire to ..read more »
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from 3,198 members
House With Laughing Windows
Fans of Argento may well like this effort of a frequent collaborator. Familiarity is the essence of comfort, and comfort is the essence of well being......
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House With Laughing Windows
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina
Director: Pupi Avati
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Arriving in a small Italian village, ostensibly to restore a fresco painting in a local church, Stefano uncovers some gruesome truths about the origins of the painting. The rumour sweeping the village that the depictions of murder and torture in the fresco were painted directly from real events ..read more »
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from 275 members
Young Frankenstein
But they told me this wasn't a horror? 'Well they were wrong then weren't they?'
Ha! Not much blood, but a lot of fun.
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Young Frankenstein
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman
Director: Mel Brooks
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An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the star of the film, Gene Wilder, YOUNG ..read more »
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from 6,075 members
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
A personal Frankenstein favourite of mine...see Peter Cushing in his most disturbing scene (in my opinion). And yet, feel warm and comforted in his timeless presence. Aaaah, we love him.
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Peter Cushing, Simon Ward
Director: Terence Fisher
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When a doctor is killed at a mental asylum the evil Baron Frankenstein seizes the chance to transplant his brain into the meek body of Doctor Richter. But the bloody operation creates an entity of evil which shatters the lives of everyone.
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