From the opening sequence in which a masked nerd terrorises Drew Barrymore with a slasher-flick pop quiz before splattering her guts all over the lawn, this was a new, fun, shallow-but-sharp breed of scary movie in which the sharing of movie lore between characters and audience somehow conspired to make everything feel more convincing – if never exactly ‘real’. It starts like any other let’s-get-it-on teen movie, at a late night beach party. Even now it feels wrong to reveal the twist on which the film is built, so we won’t. ‘It Follows’ is a prime example: for every second of this sparse, precise story of supernatural stalkers in suburbia, you know that writer-director David Robert Mitchell has both hands firmly on the wheel. NF, Untempered SteeleFor students of horror, 1960 is remembered as the year of ‘Peeping Tom’ and ‘Psycho’. Hans Stjernswärd CC, Cast: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Devil in disguise Jacques Tourneur never intended to show the audience the demon that terrorises his ‘Night of the Demon’.

Cohen deserves to be mentioned alongside Carpenter and Craven in the horror canon – and this might be his masterpiece, though ‘It’s Alive’, ‘Q: The Winged Serpent’ and ‘The Stuff’ all run it close.
TH, Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Marilyn Eastman, The beginning of the endThe film that changed it all, that took horror out of the realm of creaky castles and mad science and into the harsh light of the modern day. His unconscious body along with the other two men are loaded on a trolley to a slaughterhouse.



But let’s not overlook Dan O’Bannon’s script, which builds character without assigning age, race or even gender – plus one of the finest casts ever assembled. The visual debt owed by Argento’s ‘Suspiria’ and ‘Inferno’ is abundantly clear. He is not alone, together in a barn with other men, he watches in horror as the masked men come in and begin bashing two of the captive men with a hammer from the tops of their cage after securing them with a control pole like animals.

Which doesn’t tell the half of it. Following one hellish night in the life of a Barcelona TV reporter as she and her cameraman accompany some firemen on a call to a suspiciously quiet apartment building, ‘[REC]’ didn’t just open the doors to a franchise, it jumpstarted a movement.

TH, Cast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Toby Jones, Situation normal: all fogged upHaving tackled Stephen King twice already – in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and its inferior follow-up ‘The Green Mile’ – Darabont made his first out-and-out horror movie with this bleak, pointed adaptation of King’s novella about a mysterious fog which swamps a small town, forcing the inhabitants to take shelter in the local supermarket.

CC, Vote for the green party It’s gratifying to see both ‘Body Snatchers’ movies on this list: Don Siegel’s 1956 original may be punchier and more bracing, but Philip ‘The Right Stuff’ Kaufman’s ’70s remake is funnier and more self-aware. Teenage girls can be pure evil and it’s in a locker room that we meet Carrie, who’s just had her first period and is being told to ‘plug it up!’ by the mean girls. But the real horror begins when Jim and his band of survivors reach the ‘safety’ of a group of soldiers barricaded in a stately mansion up north. Abbott and Costello meet The Evil DeadBefore he got bogged down in endless Hobbitry, Peter Jackson was one of the world’s most ferociously inventive independent exploitation filmmakers, a worthy successor to the George Romero and Sam Raimi school of DIY gore. As the women fight to survive, they must also cope with their own half-buried secrets: betrayals surface, tensions explode and loyalties disintegrate.

She runs ahead, throwing off her clothes, splashing into the water... only to be pulled under screaming. A list of 213 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Curse (1987), Splatter Farm (1987), Isolation (2005), Crowhaven Farm (1970) and Motel Hell (1980).

And as women continue to be shut out of filmmaking roles, how satisfying that ‘The Babadook’ was one of the best-reviewed horror movies of the decade so far. His intention, said Dreyer, was ‘to create a daydream on the screen and to show that the horrific is not to be found around us, but in our own unconscious mind.’ And ‘Vampyr’ is often compared to a waking dream, full of strange hallucinatory images that strike dread in audiences even today. First, there are the grotesque characters, each horrific enough in their own way, from the boo-hiss headmaster (Paul Meurisse) to his nervy wife (Vera Clouzot) and bullish mistress (Signoret). That synopsis should offer some insight into the kind of boiling Freudian gumbo Browning serves up. Jeffrey ‘the thinking man’s Bruce Campbell’ Combs plays disturbed anti-hero Herbert West (even the way he says his name is funny), the science graduate who stumbles across a glowing green resurrection serum and opts to try it out on the overbearing Dean and his nubile, leggy daughter. And make no mistake: ‘The Exorcist’ is most definitely a horror film: though it may be filled with rigorously examined ideas and wonderfully observed character moments, its primary concern is with shocking, scaring and, yes, horrifying its audience out of their wits – does mainstream cinema contain a more upsetting image than the crucifix scene?
We already have this email. Runtime One of the male captives sees her, and silently attempts to tell her to hide. There are the classics, too (what is horror without ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers?) The ‘Ring’ is a masterpiece of fear and atmospheric terror. But while ‘Bride’ is full of camp, sly humour, Karloff’s return as the lumbering monster is also incredibly moving. DC, Change you can believe inTime travel has many enticing possibilities, but one of the most enjoyable would be to travel back to 1982 and tell John Carpenter that his new movie would someday score sixth place in a list of the 100 best horror movies – even beating his own iconic ‘Halloween’. But it still chills to the bone. But something nightmarish lurks beneath the surface, as a dour Presbyterian policeman (Woodward) arrives to investigate a 12-year-old girl’s disappearance. But more than half a century after it was made, ‘The Night of the Hunter’ continues to shrug off attempts at easy categorisation: if it’s a horror movie, then it’s also an adventure story, a crime thriller, a coming-of-age drama and a fairy tale. By this point, it’s hard to tell who we’re really rooting for, the hateful, bickering soldier ‘heroes’ or their shuffling, bloodthirsty zombie captives, personified by the ‘thinking zombie’, the oddly lovable Bub. TH, Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Cast: Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Ralph Michael, Don’t be a dummy It’s Redgrave as a ventriloquist possessed by his own dummy that most people rightly remember about this Ealing Studios anthology of horror yarns, woven together as a series of tales told by guests at a tea party at a remote cottage. Child star Haley Joel Osment (what happened to him?) Utilising the horror trope of isolated suburbs, Peele subverts expectations, distinctly carving out a new niche in the genre that’s equal parts horror, comedy and social commentary. With difficulty she manages to squeeze her hand through the mesh and grab the rock and attempts to use it to bash the lock of her cage. Its inmates, the Femm family, are quite frankly bonkers. Time Out’s panel of experts voted it so. The make-up technician was called Screaming Mad George.

But in this 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s epic novel, replanted in the 1980s instead of the ’50s, it’s Bill Skarsgård who scares you witless.

A sparky, pre-’Superman’ Margot Kidder gives as good as she gets, but it’s hard to tell which, if any, of the girls will survive this Yuletide slay ride.

That said, ‘The Devils’ is also hugely fun, from Derek Jarman’s immense, overwhelming set design to Vanessa Redgrave’s vulnerable, possessed performance as Sister Jeanne. The woman reveals that she has been held at the farm for two years and was bred to the point where she can't get pregnant anymore and is relieved that it will soon be over. On the other, there were the more outrageous dream-horrors popular in Europe, the work of Hammer Studios in the UK and Mario Bava and Dario Argento in Italy, films that prized artistry, oddity and explicit gore over narrative logic. Kobayashi’s stylised use of colour is more symbolic than naturalistic, and coupled with the avant garde electronic score by Toru Takemitsu, which also incorporates sampled natural sounds, it generates both a haunting atmosphere and some subtle supernatural chills. In this place you're the main dish TH, Sister actIn lesser hands, the wild theatrics and camp stylings of Ken Russell’s story of religious persecution and demonic possession in seventeenth-century France would turn ‘The Devils’ into no more than a fleshy, hysterical romp. For this story, a husband (Michael) is possessed, dragged into the mirror and inspired to try and kill his wife (Withers). Carrie’s secret is that she has telekinetic powers, which are about to wreak an apocalypse at the school prom. DC, Cast: Shauna Macdonald, MyAnna Buring, Natalie Mendoza, Subterranean nightmare bluesWhat might have been a routine ‘chicks with picks’ movie is lent extra emotional depth by the complex group dynamics of six young women who plunge into an Appalachian cave system and discover they are not alone. Tossing the items aside, she relieves herself only a couple of feet from where a human skull is seen hidden in the tall grass.

Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry.

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The result is one of the most relentlessly, gleefully nasty movies ever released, incorporating mutant monkeys, zombie flesh-eaters, death by lawnmower, kung-fu priests and jokes about ‘The Archers’. Its influence has been felt in every zombie film since (and even on TV in ‘The Walking Dead’), and it remains a near-flawless piece of fist-pumping ultraviolence. But somebody was clearly paying attention, because it’s crashed into our top 100. Travel Movies Books Food Other. TH, Cast: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, Long live the new flesh Cronenberg’s most prescient film explores, through the eyes and media-altered mind of sleazy cable television programmer Max Renn (James Woods), the dangerous world imagined by the censors – one in which exposure to extreme images destroys the viewer’s ability to distinguish between plastic reality and perverse fantasy. Photo: Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). NF, Cast: Edith Scob, Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Flaying alive Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Skin I Live In’ was inspired in part by Franju’s clinical, monochrome movie about an obsessive professor of plastic surgery. TH, Director: Robert WieneCast: Werner Krauss, Conrad VeidtTrapped in the closet There was no way director Robert Wiene could’ve known how disturbingly prescient his masterpiece of art-horror would turn out to be.

What’s so unsettling about Peele’s film, however, is just how zeitgeisty it is. Sure, it looks a little rough around the edges now (and that still censored tree-rape scene is just unnecessarily vicious), but ‘The Evil Dead’ remains an inspiration for first-time filmmakers, a testament to the power of plasticine, glue and gumption.

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