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Here is Cinema Blend's definitive, once and for all comment on the 30 greatest horror films of all time. Will you agree with all of our choices? Probably not, but we. Break out the pigtails and set your inner wild child free–Anne of Green Gables, the beloved novel by Canadian author L.M. Montgomery, is coming to Netflix as a two. The trailer for Dark Signal piqued our interest for two reasons: one, it’s produced by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Game of Thrones). And two, we can’t resist. These are the all-time scariest movies ever made. Many of these movies have become part of the pop culture lexicon due to their popularity. This list features movies. An early sketch of the Countess's bedroom, by Mark Worthington. The hotel at the center of American Horror Story: Hotel has yet to reveal all of its mysteries to us.
Things to Know About Internet's Creepiest Creation (Video)The new HBO documentary “Beware the Slenderman” released its first trailer this week and it is most definitely creepy. The documentary explores the rise in popularity of the monstrous creature known as Slenderman, a tall, thin apparition with ghost- white skin and no face who is said to abduct and kill children. If you weren’t freaked out enough already, The.
Wrap has rounded up several facts to know about the online phenomenon you should know before the documentary premieres on HBO. Also Read: 1. 5 Scariest Horror Movies Streaming on Netflix, Amazon. Check out the list below.- Meme Goes Viral. Eric Knudsen is credited with creating Slenderman back in 2. Taking part in a Photoshop contest on the Something Awful message board, Knudsen submitted two photos of groups of children with Slenderman in the background wearing his trademark black suit.
Other users quickly seized on the figure and began creating stories centered around him.- creepypasta. Slenderman stories became incredibly popular online, with people posting fan fiction about the character in stories known as creepypastas. These were horror stories that often featured Slenderman being involved in all kinds of ghoulish acts meant to terrify readers.- Powers and Abilities.
There is no official list of powers attributed to the supernatural figure, but stories about him have given Slenderman a wide range of abilities. Typically, he is said to have very long arms or even tentacles that he uses to capture his victims.
It has also been written that he can drive people insane or to kill simply by being close to them. Also Read: 'American Horror Story' Will Feature a 'Murder House'/'Coven' Crossover Season, Ryan Murphy Says- In the Media. Slenderman has moved beyond the internet into various other mediums.
The character himself or one very similar has been featured as an antagonist in numerous supernatural television shows like the Canadian series “Lost Girl” and “Supernatural.” There has also been talk of Slenderman movies and TV shows, but these projects have yet to see fruition.- Fantasy Becomes Reality. The world took notice of Slenderman in 2. Waukesha, Wisconsin, attempted to stab one of their classmates to death in order to impress the fictional character. The victim survived and managed to crawl onto a bike path, where she was discovered by a passing cyclist. Both perpetrators are currently on trial.“Beware the Slenderman” premieres Jan.
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The 3. 0 Best Horror Movies Of All Time. Almost as long as there has been cinema there have been horror movies. While the genre is often branded with the stigma of being low- brow, cheap, and only for hardcore fans of jump scares and gore, it is also responsible for some of the greatest films of all- time, and certainly many of our favorites fall somewhere along the horror spectrum. Just as there are trashy, forgettable, throwaway horror films every year, there are also those that that play upon our greatest fears to create tension, an ominous atmosphere, and to terrify us to our very core. The history genre is full of monsters, both human and otherwise, horrific events, and chilling scenarios that thrill us, scare us, keep us on the proverbial edge of our seats, and stick around to haunt our nightmares long after we leave the theater.
The list that follows is Cinema Blend’s definitive, once- and- for- all comment on the greatest horror movies ever made, though we can’t help but wish there was room for 5. Will you agree with all of our choices? Probably not, but we’re willing to bet that some of your favorites made the cut.
Friday The 1. 3th. A franchise most known for it’s hulking, un- killable, hockey- mask- wearing, machete- wielding villain Jason Voorhees, it’s easy to forget that this iconic antagonist isn’t really a part of Sean Cunninghams’s 1. Along with the likes of Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 1. Full of tension and shocks and a very young Kevin Bacon getting speared through the neck, Friday the 1. Shaun Of The Dead. Shaun of the Dead is the one movie on this list that works as a comedy first and as a horror second, but it does both so exceedingly well that there was no way this slice of fried gold could be ignored. From the minds of star Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright, 2.
Shaun of the Dead gave the zombie genre the . With homages galore and weapons ranging from rifles to cricket bats to the Batman soundtrack on vinyl (but not Purple Rain), the movie wisely balances the narrative spotlight between imaginative zombie kills and the pub- loving Shaun fighting to keep his life from spiraling away. As quotable as it is blood- soaked and hilarious, Shaun of the Dead is boosted by a stellar supporting cast of talented Brits, including Bill Nighy, Dylan Moran, Kate Ashfield and Lucy Davis (among many others).
Fuck- a- doodle- do, this movie is fantastic. Suspiria. With the giallo subgenre, Italian filmmakers put their own unique, memorable stamp on horror. None of them left quite the mark that Dario Argento did, and none of his impressive body of work stands quite as tall as 1. Suspiria. When an American ballet student enrolls in prestigious German dance academy, she finds much more than she bargained for, as sinister supernatural forces leave a trail of violent, grisly murders. Glossy and blood- spattered, Suspiria is visually stunning—a virtual nightmare captured on film—violent, shocking, and with a score by the legendary prog rock band Goblin, the finished product is a hallucinatory sensory overload. And I mean that as the highest compliment.
Repulsion. With movies like Knife in the Water and Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski has shown that you don’t necessarily need monsters and jump scares to make a truly terrifying film. Case in point: his first English- language feature, 1. Repulsion. Starring Catherine Deneuve, the story follows her character, Carol, a woman repulsed by all things sexual, who, when her sister leaves her alone for a holiday, comes unwound, sinks into a depression, and is tormented by horrific visions and hallucinations, all of which culminate in shocking real- world violence. Repulsion is widely regarded as one of the all- time greats in the realm of psychological horror, and that acclaim has rightly remained for more than half a century. Don’t Look Now. When a married couple (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie), attempting to come to terms with the death of their young daughter, travel to Venice, they’re haunted by a series of mysterious occurrences and reminders of death after an encounter with two elderly sisters comes with warnings from beyond.
Clearly wearing Hitchcockian influences on his sleeve, Nicolas Roeg’s 1. Don’t Look Now employs occult sensibilities, explores the impact of grief on a relationship, and delivers a chilling, menacing story, tinged with melodrama and the supernatural, that sticks with you long after watching. Psychologically and thematically dense, it’s an examination of the human psyche as filtered through the lens of a tense, tight horror thriller.
The Thing. Like many great horror movies, the ones that endure over the years, John Carpenter’s 1. The Thing From Another World, The Thing, was initially dismissed by most critics as being nothing more than an excessive gross- out schlock film. However, in the decades since its release, it has been reappraised and become recognized as one of the great offerings of the genre. A jagged sci- fi thriller that continually creates a tense, taut atmosphere of paranoia and doubt, The Thing follows the rugged crew at an isolated Antarctic research facility as they’re besieged by an alien presence that can assume the form of anything it touches. Playing to gut- level fears and using grotesquely memorable practical creature effects, this is Carpenter, one of the masters of horror, working at the very top of his game.
And the ambiguous ending is still the subject of great conversation and debate. Days Later. No one can argue that George A. Romero is the godfather of zombie movies, but with 2. Days Later, director Danny Boyle became the cool uncle of zombie movies that would show up with a case of beer and a couple of sledgehammers. Headed by Cillian Murphy at his most hypnotic, and from a script penned by future Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, 2. Days Later technically replaced the undead kind of zombies with fast- moving abominations fueled by a rage virus, but it still fits into (and sits near the top) of the subgenre. What starts as a stunning and contemplative look at a London mostly devoid of people turns into a rapidly worsening slide into terror as Murphy’s Jim and his fellow survivors come face to face with the somewhat predictable but still hideous outcome of such a population- depleted planet.
Winning performances from Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson and Christopher Eccleston only add to its superiority. Scream. In the current landscape, it’s practically impossible to have a horror movie that doesn’t have meta, self- referential elements. You can thank horror master Wes Craven and his 1. Scream for that. As annoying as this trope has become in recent years, as handled by Craven, Scream was a game changer.
Using comedy, a whodunit- style mystery, and every slasher clich. Beyond any academic praise you want to heap on the film, at the same time Scream is all of these things, it’s also a great horror film, one that is inventive and funny and harrowing all at the same time. The Blair Witch Project.
Similar in spirit (if not style) to producer/director William Castle’s attempts in the 1. The Blair Witch Project was bolstered by fairly extensive pre- release buzz that sold the central story of three missing documentary filmmakers as genuine truth.
It’s safe to say that approach was effective, as the film eventually grossed almost $2. By choosing indirect and abstract scares to keep viewers unsettled, and letting . Rarely has a less- is- more strategy panned out so successfully.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. An argument can be made that only bad films should get the remake treatment, but 1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a monolith of an exception. Perhaps it isn’t better in every way than the 1.
Jack Finney’s novel), but it’s one hell of a lot more effective as a horror film. Kicking off a solid run of films for director Philip Kaufman, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the pod people movie to rule them all, and its legacy is cemented by stars Donald Sutherland, his mustache, and Brooke Adams (not to mention Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy), as well as some of the most fabulously disgusting special effects of the decade. The film also exhibits its 1. Or wherever you want to call that psyche- shattering mutant dog. A Nightmare On Elm Street.
The only franchise I can recall that made jumping rope unnervingly creepy, the Nightmare on Elm Street films remain championed more than most genre series for never fully settling into haphazardly conceived dreck. And it all started with Wes Craven’s 1. Freddy Krueger. Everything a horror fan could hope for is in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Freddy is the greatest movie monster of all time, the cast (including an infant Johnny Depp) is perfect, the backstory is chilling and the kills. Freddy’s glove is a masterpiece of weaponry, but this movie’s best deaths were Tina’s, in which her bleeding body is dragged all over her bedroom’s walls and ceiling, and Glen’s, whose murder results in a wonderful geyser of blood shooting up from his bed. Depp’s character said it best: .
Baseball bats and boogeymen. Bride Of Frankenstein. When Bride of Frankenstein was first released in 1. Internet where people could argue over the value of movie sequels. Acclaimed but not entirely beloved upon its release, James Whale’s follow- up to his own 1.
With Ernest Thesiger eagerly welcomed as Henry Frankenstein’s former mentor Doctor Pretorius, Bride of Frankenstein tells the ghastly next chapter in the story of Henry and Boris Karloff’s Monster, treating viewers to visual and aural splendor for a grisly tale that climaxes in the creation of the Monster’s Bride, played with magnificence by Elsa Lanchester and her unforgettable hair. The Bride is sadly only in the movie for a brief period, but her . One can only wonder what the film would have been like had it not been a big target for censorship. Evil Dead 2. Rare is the sequel that surpasses its predecessor in almost every way, but hail to the king of modern horror follow- ups, baby.