The Best of Horror
Included here are many of the top 100 critically acclaimed horror films by filmmakers from around the world representing over one hundred years of the genre and are all the horror titles in my still growing collection.
Hollywood dominates my collection but only just.
International film charaterizes the other half of this list: Onibaba and Kwaidan head the Japanese entries; the 2008 vampire film "Let the Right One In" by Tomas Alfredson leads a small contingent of Scandinavian films; British horror is well represented, as are the Italians and the rest of Europe. One of my personal favorites is a Spanish horror film call "El Dia de la Bestia" directed by Alex de la Iglesia, released in 1995.
I don't much care for gore porn or torture flicks like Hostel and the Saw series, so you won't find any of that here. I do, however, include progenitors of the gore genre, like Carpenter's slasher, Halloween, the zombie films of Romero and the Italian giallos of Fulci and Argento who, in turn, were influenced by the very first gore innovator, the original Mario Bava.
I will admit some films in my collection don't qualify (they may have come in a set) but the majority make up what I feel are the best of the genre.
Enjoy.
Hollywood dominates my collection but only just.
International film charaterizes the other half of this list: Onibaba and Kwaidan head the Japanese entries; the 2008 vampire film "Let the Right One In" by Tomas Alfredson leads a small contingent of Scandinavian films; British horror is well represented, as are the Italians and the rest of Europe. One of my personal favorites is a Spanish horror film call "El Dia de la Bestia" directed by Alex de la Iglesia, released in 1995.
I don't much care for gore porn or torture flicks like Hostel and the Saw series, so you won't find any of that here. I do, however, include progenitors of the gore genre, like Carpenter's slasher, Halloween, the zombie films of Romero and the Italian giallos of Fulci and Argento who, in turn, were influenced by the very first gore innovator, the original Mario Bava.
I will admit some films in my collection don't qualify (they may have come in a set) but the majority make up what I feel are the best of the genre.
Enjoy.
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