Final Lists: Top 100 Horror Movies of All-Time

Now that the countdown is over, here are the top 100 lists from each of us. Use this comment section of this post to display your own top 10/20/50/100 horror movies!

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1 of 4. Psycho

(Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) (essay by Troy) Psycho, simply put, is the most influential horror movie of all-time.  Here we have the film that took horror from being generally a genre with supernatural and gothic traditions, making it popular to place the emphasis on the modern, the domestic, and the psychosexual.  Or, as Jamie has stated [...]

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1 of 4: A Nightmare on Elm Street

(Wes Craven, 1984) (essay by Robert) 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street is a film that explodes beyond its slasher framework by transgressing the boundaries of reality and imaginary.  The film makes no apologies for its preponderance of blood and abruptly challenges us to look hard at the psychological and sociological burdens of the characters.  Craven [...]

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1 of 4. Don’t Look Now (aka ‘Can the Small Faces explain the greatest Horror film I’ve ever seen?’)

Nicolas Roeg, 1973) (essay by Jamie) “Things are clearer than before Showing me the way Asking me to stay I’ll never close the door To all this things and more In my mind’s eye” Existence as that dreaded physics reality; where an action always causes an equal and opposite reaction. The oscillation of force, Donald [...]

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Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo – 1935, Sadao Yamanaka

  by Allan Fish (Japan 1935 92m) not on DVD Aka. Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo It‘s not worth three mon d  Sadao Yamanaka  w  Shintaro Mimura  ph  Jan Yasumoto  m  Goro Nishi  art  Kohei Shima Denjiro Okochi (Sazen Tange), Kiyozo (Ofuji), Kunitaro Sawamura (Genzaburo Yagyu), Reisaburo Yamamoto (Yokichi), Minoru Takase (Shigeju), Shoji [...]

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A Colloquy of the Bobs: Driven to the Point of Schizophrenia by Godard’s “Film Socialisme”

Very often when I see a movie I find myself conflicted as to whether or not I actually like it very much. Over the course of this year I’ve seen a number of films that I’m more or less 50/50 on– the beautifully shot, but dramatically laughable I Am Love; the dramatically intense but more [...]

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1 of 4: Halloween

(John Carpenter, 1978) (essay by Kevin) Much like my dilemma with what to write about in regards to Alien here I am again faced with an even more canonized film; a film that has been written about ad nauseam to the point where anything I say in this essay is going to sound cliché. Halloween [...]

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The “Wednesday Evening Show” – Before the Revolution

(Originally an entry in the “Sunday Matinee” series) by Joel Bocko Before the Revolution, Italy, 1964, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci Starring Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli Story: In Parma, a young Communist feels torn between his romantic hunger for life, the security of his bourgeois background, and his ideological duty to the cause. Meanwhile, he carries on [...]

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5. Blue Velvet

(David Lynch, 1986) (essay by Kevin) [This is a repost of an entry I did on the subgenre of Neo-Noir a while back…I am leaving it untouched here for one purpose: I have not added any addendums to this essay about whether or not Blue Velvet is a ‘horror’ film; so, let’s discuss whether it [...]

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Body Armor: Catherine Breillat’s ‘Anatomy of Hell’; Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Cries and Whispers’

Copyright © 2010 by James Clark       Regarding the reception of her Anatomy of Hell (2004), soon after the shooting of which she underwent a major stroke, from which she has recovered, Catherine Breillat remarked, “I hope they won’t kill me.” She might have found solace in the fact (undoubtedly known to her) that Ingmar [...]

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