Horror Films. David Cronenberg's Unique Brand of 'Body' Horror: Subversive. Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, known for disturbing sexual and 'body'. Shivers (1. 97. 5, Can.) (aka They Came From Within/The Parasite Murders) about a group of Montreal high- rise apartment occupants at Starliner Island on a permissive sex and violence. AIDS virus. One of the occupants (scream queen Barbara Steele) passed on the parasite with a lesbian kiss. His next notable film, his fourth film, was Rabid. Rage) starring ex- porn film star Marilyn Chambers (the ex . Skin grafts produced an orifice in her armpit with a phallic needle- like stinger that needed to consume blood, causing her victims to become rabid and infected with plague. Scanners. (1. 98. Other exceptional films from Cronenberg in the 8. With the upcoming releases of Life and Alien: Covenant, we rank the most iconic and terrifying science fiction horror movies of all time. Check out IndieWire’s newest list of best horror films of the 21st century! By the pricking of my thumbs, a holiday-themed list feature this way comes. HORROR OF DRACULA (1957-'58/released 1958) The first and considered by most all Hammer aficionados to be the best of the series. It nonetheless got things off with. This Friday, the summer gets its first high-profile haunting with the premiere of Poltergeist. It's the latest in a long line of 1980s horror films to receive a re-do. Horror resents platitude, but the good horror film insists on the humanity that’s inextinguishable even by severe atrocity. Ask horror-movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers. The ’30s had several of Universal’s classic. ![]() Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale. 36 LISTS Do You Like Scary Movies? Lists for fans addicted to horror films and all the jump-scarin', blood-splatterin', "bitch, get out the house!". Looking for the scariest movies to watch under the safety of your covers? Here are the best horror movies on Netflix right now. The Dead Zone (1. Stephen King's novel. Videodrome (1. 98. TV signal. The Fly (1. Jeff Goldblum. and Geena Davis - an effective re- make of the 1. Dead Ringers. (1. Cronenberg's. most successful film, featuring two Jeremy Irons and gynecological instruments. Naked Lunch (1. 99. William Burrough's surrealistic drug trip the slickly original Crash (1. Xisten. Z (1. 99. Recently, he directed A History of Violence (2. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) - it featured William Hurt's frightening, unsettling Oscar- nominated 1. Richie Cusack. Wes Craven: Wes. Craven also began his career in violent horror films in the 7. The best source for the latest horror movie news, videos, and podcasts. Watch scary movie trailers, and find the top streaming horror movies.The Last House on the. Left (1. 97. 2) (a re- tooling of Ingmar. Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1. The Hills Have Eyes. His. two most famous films were teens- in- terror slasher flicks that spurred. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1. Freddy. Krueger (Robert Englund), a re- incarnated, sadistic child molester and serial killer. The premise was that the children of his persecutors - - grown- up teens (Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, and Johnny Depp in his feature film debut, among others) who fell asleep would experience the nightmare of Freddy's returning presence, who had emerged from Hell to haunt them the surprising horror hit- spoof Scream (1. It rejuvenated. the slasher film in subsequent years by self- reflectively honoring. Grim Reaper. The film opened with the death of Casey Becker. Drew Barrymore) when she failed to correctly answer a trivia question. Friday the 1. 3th (1. A second terrorized teen. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), a year after her mother's. Sidney's. psychotic boyfriend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and his flunky. Stuart . The total domestic gross. Scream series (1. Scream 2 (1. 99. 7) - grossing $1. In the film, Sidney went away to Windsor. College in Cincinnati with long- time friend Randy (Jamie Kennedy). Mrs. Loomis, Billy's mother (Laurie Metcalf). Mickey (Timothy Olyphant). Loomis'. motive for attempting to kill Sidney and her friends was revenge. Sidney killing her son in the first film. Sidney survived. by the film's end, while both Mrs. Loomis and Mickey were shot. Scream 3 (2. 00. 0) - grossing $8. The traumatized Sidney was working in California as a hotline crisis intervention. She learned that she had a long- lost half- brother named Roman. Bridger (Scott Foley), her mother Maureen's (Lynn Mc. Ree) son from a previous. Maureen had met but abandoned. Roman was the director of the. Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, being. Los Angeles, and characters were being murdered. Roman admitted. that he was ultimately responsible for all the murders in the previous films. Billy about his father's affair with Sidney's mother. Nightmare on Elm Street's (from 1. The films in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. In Red Eye (2. 00. Craven. added to his horror repertoire this psychological thriller set on. Miami, with Rachel Mc. Adams. as the terrified passenger Lisa Reisert taken 'hostage' by stranger/passenger. Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy). Blaxploitation Horror Films: The first of the so- called exploitative 'blaxploitation' films. African- American casts, music and themes) was Melvin Van. Peebles' controversial independent film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It jump- started a whole series of similar films about black private. As the movement progressed, it merged with. William Crain's Blacula (1. William Marshall as the accursed African. LA as a vampire; and its sequel Scream, Blacula. Scream! Hyde (1. 97. Abar, the First Black Superman (1. The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger (1. Later blaxploitation films in the 9. Def by Temptation (1. Clive Barker's The Forbidden about a hook- handed murderer summoned by speaking . Most of these sequels or imitators were exploitative and featured. Many of these films told tales of. Friday. the 1. 3th (1. It ripped off more original films of the 7. Mario Bava's definitive R- rated slasher/gore film A. Bay of Blood (1. 97. It.)) with tales of terrorized. It also inspired a TV series and several. Jason Voorhees, like the psychopathic Freddy Krueger. Nightmare on Elm. Street series, became a landmark name, although the machete- wielding. Jason, but his vengeful mother. Pamela (Betsy Palmer). She was seeking revenge for the drowning of. Crystal Lake when sexually- promiscuous. Although Pamela was beheaded in the film's climax. Various locales for. Camp Crystal Lake, to. Manhattan, to outer space in Jason X (2. Child's Play (1. 98. It was followed by two generic horror sequels in. Bride of Chucky (1. Tiffany (voice of Jennifer Tilly) to. The fifth film in the series, Seed. Chucky (2. 00. 4), directed by series screenwriter Don Mancini. Scream. (1. 99. 6), featuring numerous in- jokes (the gender- confused child. Chucky and Tiffany was named Glen/Glenda, a reference. Ed Wood film; and Jennifer Tilly played herself, making references. Bound (1. 99. 6) (with co- star Gina Gershon. Fantasy Author H. P. Lovecraft and His Horror Tales: Stuart Gordon's gory, cult- classic comedy about re- animated. Re- Animator (1. 98. H. P. Lovecraft serial. Herbert West - Reanimator. The twisted film was shot in only a little over two weeks, and told the outrageous tale of a demented medical student named Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) who was experimenting on regenerating dead bodies. After experiments on a dead cat with a reanimating, luminous green serum, the research went awry as West's megalomaniac teacher Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale) was reduced to a severed head on a platter and he attempted to perform oral sex on a screaming and naked Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton) amidst a scene of lobotomized zombies stumbling around in a morgue - the film's most controversial scene. The original film was followed by. Jeffrey Combs: The Bride of Animator (1. Brian Yuzna. Beyond Re- Animator (2. Brian Yuzna. Another Lovecraft short story, From Beyond, was the. Gordon/Yuzna collaboration, appropriately titled From. Beyond (1. 98. 6) - with the tagline . Many films have. either been based upon or inspired by H. P. Lovecraft tales, such as the following: The Haunted Palace (1. The Case of. Charles Dexter Ward, from director Roger Corman - one of his ! The low- budget, cult horror series was composed of the following trilogy of films: The Evil. Dead (1. 98. 1) - a gorefest about a remote Tennessee backwoods cabin possessed by evil spirits (after the discovery of the book of the dead, the Necronomicon), and haunting five college students by turning them into zombies. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1. Army of Darkness (1. Raimi's more mainstream film Darkman (1. Invisible Man, the Wolf Man, and the. Phantom of the Opera) and featured Liam Neeson as the tortured, vengeful. Peyton . He also directed the major. Spider- Man (2. 00. Spider- Man/Peter. Parker (Tobey Maguire) battling his evil nemesis, the Green Goblin/Norman. Osborn (Willem Dafoe). Director Raimi's sequels were equally successful both. Spider- Man 2 (2. Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina), and Spider- Man 3 (2. Tim Burton: Tim Burton contributed his unique and original vision to the. Beetlejuice (1. 98. Batman films (the blockbuster original Batman. Batman Returns (1. Edward Scissorhands (1. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1. Christmas. by Jack Skellington. Burton's biographical horror film Ed Wood (1. Bela Lugosi (played by Oscar- winning Martin. Landau), and his light- hearted, campy, escapist satire about Martian invaders. Mars Attacks! The famed director also retold and updated the. Washington Irving legendary fable of The Headless Horseman in his Sleepy. Hollow (1. 99. 9) with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane. Remakes of Classic Vampire, Wolfman, and Frankenstein. Films in the 8. 0s and Beyond: Classic. Wolfman, Dracula/Vampire, and Frankenstein films were also resurrected and. A few of the. more accomplished but cliched horror films involving werewolves included John. Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1. An American. Werewolf in Paris (1. Paris), Joe Dante's horror/comedy The Howling (1. Mike Nichols' Wolf (1. Jack. Nicholson as the afflicted individual, and the R- rated The Wolf Man (2. Benicio del Toro as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man and Anthony Hopkins as Sir John Talbot - these films featured stunning metamorphosis. Other recent werewolf films included: Michael Wadleigh's classic werewolf. Wolfen (1. 98. 1),Neil Jordan's fairy tale- monster film The. Company of Wolves (1. Silver Bullet (1. Stephen. King's Cycle of the Werewolf, the spoof Teen Wolf (1. Back to the Future's Michael J. Fox - and its sequel Teen Wolf Too. In the early 8. 0s, Tony Scott filmed the glossy. The Hunger (1. 98. Catherine Deneuve. Susan Sarandon. The campy teen/horror spoof Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kristy Swanson as the improbable cheerleader and Valley Girl. LA vampires. The popular TV series of the same. Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Sunnydale, conveniently. Hellmouth. Writer/director Stephen Sommers resurrected The Mummy as a. Mummy films, starring Brendan Fraser as the character. Rick O'Connell - a take- off on Indiana Jones, with a pretty. Egyptologist archaeologist Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz), and the 3,0. Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo): The Mummy (1. The Mummy Returns (2. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2. Rob Cohen (but produced by franchise founder Stephen Sommers), focused on the resurrected terra cotta . Bloody Disgusting - The best horror movies, news, videos, and podcasts. Exclusives. Way back in 2. Warner Premiere had announced plans for a Deep Blue Sea sequel, which eventually drown in development hell...
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