Not in any particular order:
1. Dawn of the Dead - Romero's original of course. Still a film I can't watch before bedtime.
2. Night of the Living Dead - again, not the pointless remake.
3. The Wicker Man - the film that Christopher Lee considers the best he's ever been in. The director's cut, natch.
4. The Woman in Black - a fairly recent Hammer entry.
5. Dead Silence - from the people who brought you Saw. The last horror that Sam and I watched together, and I wrapped my arms around her to comfort her during some pretty genuinely creepy scenes.
6. Frankenstein - the classic Karloff original and never done better.
7. Haunter - a recent interesting twist on the haunted house genre. What is it like actually to find out you are a ghost?
8. The Marsh - very, very creepy.
9. Mama - another creep show with a very neat ending.
10. Patrick - another big favourite of Sam and I. This ingenious 1978 horror, starring Susan Penhaligon and the Childcatcher himself, Robert Helpmann, walks firmly in the footprints of Hitchcock. Well worth checking out.
Couple of honorable mentions:
Conspiracy - not a horror in the accepted sense, but this adaptation of the infamous Wansee meeting of top Nazi staff to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" is a showcase of how evil minds can change the world.
Ghostwatch - a TV movie and rather obscure. Shown on the BBC for Hallowe'en in 1992 and never repeated in this country since, this mockumentary starring Michael Parkinson, Sarah Green, Mike Smith and Craig Charles is believed to have been watched by the producers of the Blair Witch Project and may have been partly the inspiration for it. It's since been released on DVD and is sitting on my shelf, though most of it can be found on youtube; DMCA permitting.
1. Dawn of the Dead - Romero's original of course. Still a film I can't watch before bedtime.
2. Night of the Living Dead - again, not the pointless remake.
3. The Wicker Man - the film that Christopher Lee considers the best he's ever been in. The director's cut, natch.
4. The Woman in Black - a fairly recent Hammer entry.
5. Dead Silence - from the people who brought you Saw. The last horror that Sam and I watched together, and I wrapped my arms around her to comfort her during some pretty genuinely creepy scenes.
6. Frankenstein - the classic Karloff original and never done better.
7. Haunter - a recent interesting twist on the haunted house genre. What is it like actually to find out you are a ghost?
8. The Marsh - very, very creepy.
9. Mama - another creep show with a very neat ending.
10. Patrick - another big favourite of Sam and I. This ingenious 1978 horror, starring Susan Penhaligon and the Childcatcher himself, Robert Helpmann, walks firmly in the footprints of Hitchcock. Well worth checking out.
Couple of honorable mentions:
Conspiracy - not a horror in the accepted sense, but this adaptation of the infamous Wansee meeting of top Nazi staff to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" is a showcase of how evil minds can change the world.
Ghostwatch - a TV movie and rather obscure. Shown on the BBC for Hallowe'en in 1992 and never repeated in this country since, this mockumentary starring Michael Parkinson, Sarah Green, Mike Smith and Craig Charles is believed to have been watched by the producers of the Blair Witch Project and may have been partly the inspiration for it. It's since been released on DVD and is sitting on my shelf, though most of it can be found on youtube; DMCA permitting.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
