Showing posts with label best horror movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best horror movies. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Best Horror Movies (and Comedy Movies, Too)

Turn off those lights if you dare...

1. Wait Until Dark (1967)
2. The Other (1972)
3. Carrie (1976)
4. Stir of Echoes (1999)
5. Night of the Hunter (1955)
6. Psycho (1960); Dial M for Murder (1954); Strangers on a Train (1951)
7. Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Devil's Backbone (2001)
8. Cape Fear (1991) and (1962)
9. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
10. Thirst (2009, Korean)
11. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
12. The Village (2004) [I am in the minority on this one--most people disliked this film.]
13. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
14. The Eye (Hong Kong) (2002)
15.  Black Mirror (2011-2016, series)
16.  Suspiria (1977)
17. The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead (2018) (Russia) [Imagine The Shape of Water (2017) but starring an evil alien and crossed with Homer's The Odyssey ("They sit beside the ocean, combing their long golden hair")]
18. Under the Shadow (2016, Persian)
19. Requiem for a Dream (2000) [More psychological thriller than horror film, but still the most traumatizing movie experience I've ever had.]
20. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) (horror/mystery)
21. The Cabin in the Woods (2011) (horror/comedy) 
22. His House (2020) 

Bonus: below is a list of excellent comedy movies and series, in no particular order:

1. A Man Called Ove (2015)
2. Clerks (1994)
3. Chasing Amy (1997)
4. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
5. Wedding Crashers (2005)
6. The IT Crowd (British series) (2006)
7. Derry Girls (series) (2018)
8. Fleabag (series) (2016), starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge 
9. Get Duked! (2019) 
10. Black Books (British series, 2000-2004)
11. All My Friends Are Dead (Wszyscy moi przyjaciele nie zyja) (2020)

Bonus II: my favorite romantic scenes are below, in no particular order: 

1. First Love (2018, Philippines), Bea Alonzo, Aga Muhlach in bookstore singing a duet.