Average rating: 3.81   76.2% from 36 members


The Shining

Still, the Greatest Horror Film ever made, in my humble opinion!
  • The Shining on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Shelley Duvall,  Danny Lloyd
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Opening with spectacular aerial shots of a beautiful, mountainous landscape, Stanley Kubrick's horror classic THE SHINING, based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, sucks the viewer into his frightening tale with quiet, relaxing visuals - but the ominous soundtrack warns that all is not right at ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 48,675 members

Don't Look Now

Has to be on the list for the amazingly brilliant (yet tragic!) opening sequence. Great editing. Haunting and sombre tone throughout. Amazing.

Les Yeux Sans Visage

French Horror that was years ahead of its time. Contains some of the most beautiful and poetic images of horror I have ever seen.
  • Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960)
    Starring: Alida Valli,  Pierre Brasseur,  Edith Scob
    Director: Georges Franju
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The pulp poetic masterpiece from surrealist director Georges Franju, in which a maniacal plastic surgeon becomes obsessed with restoring his beloved daughter's face, which was mutilated in a horrible accident. When all conventional methods fail, he hatches a mad plot, murdering women in an insane ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 121 members

The Innocents

One of my all time favourites. Great performances from the children. Direct inspiration for the inferior, 'The Others'.
  • The Innocents on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Deborah Kerr,  Peter Wyngarde,  Megs Jenkins
    Director: Jack Clayton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on Henry James's TURN OF THE SCREW, THE INNOCENTS is a chilling psychological horror film about a woman, Miss Giddens (Kerr), who takes a position as governess for two orphans in a stately Victorian home. Alone with the children and only a few servants, Miss Giddens soon begins to see what ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,656 member

Psycho

No explanation required!
  • Psycho on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Vera Miles,  John Gavin
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 22,168 members

Peeping Tom

Questions the cinematic gaze of the spectator in a way that has never been equalled. A self-reflexive, British horror masterpiece.
  • Peeping Tom on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Carl Boehm,  Moira Shearer,  Anna Massey
    Director: Michael Powell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Mark Lewis, assistant cameraman at a London film studio, aspiring movie director, part-time taker of pornographic pictures, and amateur documentary film-maker, has begun murdering women. He kills them, literally, with his camera and films the attacks and the murders. He also surrepititiously films ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,333 members

Audition

Lulls you into a false sense of security with its melodramatic tone then pulverises you with some of the most visceral horror you will ever see. Twisted, Japanese, psycho-drama. Not for the squeamish!
  • Audition on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ryo Ishibashi,  Eihi Shiina,  Tetsu Sawaki
    Director: Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into Aoyama's charmless life, his best friend, television ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 15,650 members

Ring

The scariest film experience of my adult life! Modern Japanese horror at its best!
  • Ring on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Nanako Matsushima,  Sato Hitomi,  Miki Nakatani
    Director: Hideo Nakata
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Exactly one week after staying at a remote cabin, a group of Japanese teenagers all meet sudden inexplicable deaths. A cousin of one of the victims, reporter Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima), begins an investigation that leads to the discovery of a videotape containing hauntingly bizarre footage. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 18,661 members

The Wicker Man

Christopher Lee has never been better. Nothing else like this British gem. A stonewall classic.
  • The Wicker Man (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Edward Woodward,  Britt Ekland,  Diane Cilento
    Director: Robin Hardy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This controversial British cult classic, considered by its producer upon completion to be one of the worst films ever made, has been little seen since its brief theatrical release even though it is now regarded as a classic of British cinema. Edward Woodward stars as Sergeant Howie, a police ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 18,504 members

Eraserhead

I could put any one of Lynch's films on here, but nothing comes close to being as scary as that mutated baby!
  • Eraserhead on DVD (1976)
    Starring: John Nance,  Charlotte Stewart,  Laurel Near
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director David Lynch's feature-film debut is a masterpiece of the macabre and grotesque. Reportedly a reaction to the news that he was about to become a father, Lynch's ERASERHEAD follows a sensitive young man as he struggles to cope with impending parenthood. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) lives in a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 5,023 members




Average rating for this collection: Average rating: 3.81   76.2% from 36 members

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