Someone asked me what my favourite horror films were. I couldn't work out a top ten, but I think my top five favourite, in no particular order, are
The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - John McNaughton
Halloween - John Carpenter
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
Dawn of the Dead - George A. Romero
Perhaps interestingly, only one of the above films -The Shining- features explicitly supernatural forces.
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My top ten would probably involve Evil Dead, American Werewolf in London, Mathew Hopkins Witch Finder General and Rosemary's Baby all of which (appart from mathew hopkins) involve supernatural stuff to a greater or lesser extent.
-T
I don't have a top ten. I'm just bitter about travelling to France to see Gravenhurst this summer with my sister and her boyfriend, and not having the right festival ticket to get in. Bloody French, piss-up, brewery grrrr.
I saw Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer the other week, a bit late in the day, but it's probably the best film of the ones listed . . . the one least compromised by the need to entertain . . . the one truest to the word horror.
I saw a film some years ago called Carnival Of Souls, made in the late sixties. It's a powerful and haunting work, unlike any other horror film I can recall seeing. Hardly anyone's seen it, I reckon.
(o.m.b.)
Carnival is great; it's quite respected in horror circles; the imagery is very powerful.
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