Horror Films. Horror Filmsare unsettling films. Horror films effectively. The fantasy and supernatural film. Horror films are also known. See also Scariest.
Film Moments and Scenes (illustrated) - from many of the. Greatest Horror Films ever made, Best. Film Death Scenes (illustrated), and Three Great Horror. Film Franchises. Introduction to Horror Films Genre: Horror films go back as far as the onset of films themselves. From our earliest days, we use our vivid imaginations. Watching a horror film gives an opening. Weird as it sounds, there's a very real thrill. Watch free Horror movies online at Popcornflix. Popcornflix has hundreds of Horror movies to watch for free online. Japanese horror movies that are crazy. This is a daunting task, considering crazy Japanese horror movies are easy to find. However, there are ten crazy Japanese. Horror films, when done well and with less reliance on horrifying. Of necessity, the earliest horror films were Gothic in style. Their main characters have included . Oscar Wilde's 1. 89. Faustian tale The Picture of Dorian Gray and H. G. Wells' 1. 89. 6 story of The Island of Dr. Moreau were adapted into early film versions. In many. ways, the expressionistic German silent cinema led the world in films of horror. Many. of the early silent classics would be remade during the talkies era. The Earliest Horror Films: Vampires (Vamps), Monsters, and. More The vampire character has been one of the most ubiquitous. Dark, primitive, and revolting characters. At first, bloodsuckers (leeches). Demonic or supernatural possession was often juxtaposed with. Many religions, myths, folk- tales and. Vampires began to emerge in popular fiction of the. Anglo- Irish writer Bram. Stoker's 1. 89. 7 vampire novel Dracula was written. It has. become the most popular, influential and preeminent source material. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1. Carmilla came. a close second to Stoker's writings. Stoker's seminal book hatched. Count who vied for their prey, and a vampire hunter with garlic to. It appeared that Quasimodo, from Victor Hugo's Notre- Dame. Paris 1. 83. 1 novel, became the first horror figure in the 1. Alice Guy titled Esmeralda (1. Fr.), and soon after was seen in the full- length horror. Notre- Dame De Paris (1. Fr.) (aka The Hunchback of. Notre Dame). In the French silent film. Les Vampires (1. 91. Fr.). (aka The Vampires) by director/writer Louis. Feuillade, subversive vampire thieves sucked the blood out of sleeping. Parisian society, and stole their jewels. The villainous. leader of the vamps was Irma Vep (Musidora), an anagram for VAMPIRE. One. of the more memorable and influential of the early films was Germany's. Das Kabinett des. Doktor Caligari (1. Ger.) (aka. The Cabinet of Dr. The shadowy, disturbing, distorted, and dream- nightmarish. Caligari,' with twisted alleyways. It was brought to Hollywood in. This made the film. Francis) dream, thereby diluting the subversive nature of the. Early Vampire Films: Female vamps made an appearance in Robert Vignola's melodramatic The Vampire (1. Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1. The. earliest significant vampire film was director Arthur Robison's German silent film Nachte. Grauens (1. 91. 6, Ger.) (aka Night of Horror) with strange, vampire- like. Until recently, the lost Hungarian film Drakula halala (1. Hung.) (aka The Death. Dracula), was widely assumed to be the first adaptation of Anglo- Irish writer Bram Stoker's. Dracula, and featured cinema's first Drakula. The first genuine vampire picture. European filmmaker - director F. Murnau's feature- length Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1. Ger.) (aka Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des. Grauens). Shot on location, it was an unauthorized film adaptation of Stoker's Dracula with Max Schreck in the title role as the screen's first vampire. Count Graf Orlok living in the late 1. German town of Bremen. Because of copyright problems, the vampire. Nosferatu rather than Dracula, and the action was moved from Transylvania. Bremen. In the film's. Nina. (Greta Schroder) into remaining past daybreak, so Orlok met his fate by. German. director Werner Herzog's faithful shot- by- shot color remake Nosferatu the Vampyre (1. Klaus Kinski as the nauseating Count Dracula and beautiful Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker. Producer/director Augusto Caminito's sequel was Vampire in Venice (1. It.) (aka Nosferatu a Venezia) with Kinski as Nosferatu and Christopher Plummer as inept vampire hunter Professor Paris Catalano. At the turn of the century, Shadow of the Vampire. John Malkovich. as obsessive director F. W. It asked the question: . Wegener directed the first. Golem legend by Gustav Meyrinck - Der. Golem (1. 91. 4, Ger.) (aka The Monster of Fate), and then remade it a few years. Der Golem Und Die Tanzerin (1. Ger.) (aka The Golem and the Dancer) - notably the first horror film sequel. He remade the film a third time. Karl Freund as cinematographer, again titling it Der Golem (1. Ger.). (aka The Golem: or How He Came Into the World). The expressionistic film. Central European myths and influenced later 'Frankenstein'. The Golem, played by Wegener, was an ancient clay figure from. Hebrew mythology that was brought to life by Rabbi Loew's magic amulet to. Jews from a pogrom in the 1. Rudolf II of Habsburg. The earliest horror pictures were one- reel or full length features. US from 1. 90. 9 to the early 1. Many of them are now- forgotten . The first Frankenstein monster film in the. US was Frankenstein (1. J. Searle Dawley, a 1. Edison Studios and starring Charles Ogle as the monster. In this early. version, the Monster was created in a cauldron of chemicals rather than by a bolt of lightning. Two other silent. Frankenstein films were Joseph W. Smiley's Life Without Soul (1. German film Homunculus (1. Before the 1. 93. Hollywood was reluctant to. Instead, the studios took. The Miser's Conversion (1. The Miser's Reversion) was the first film to depict a screen transformation by using a series of dissolves with footage of the character's different stages of makeup, rather than a single jump- cut. This was later used to great effect in many films including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1. The Wolf Man (1. 94. In the film, the title character miser (Sidney Bracey), 7. John Grisley, obsessed with the idea of evolution, acquired a rejuvenation serum that transformed him into a 4. To intensify the effect, he drank the entire bottle of serum and reverted into an ape. Man of a Thousand Faces - Lon Chaney: The First. American Horror Film Star. One. actor who helped pave the way for the change in outlook and acceptance of. Lon (Alonso) Chaney, Sr., known as . He was soon to become the first American horror- film star and Hollywood's first great character actor. His first grotesque character role as a fake cripple (a contorted figure named the Frog), his breakthrough role, was in The Miracle Man (1. Chaney's films, collaborating with director Tod Browning on ten feature films over a decade, included these examples of lurid melodrama (and horror) and crime: Universal's The Wicked Darling (1. Chaney's first film partnering with Tod Browning, portraying a thief named Stoop Connors Universal's Outside the Law (1. Chaney in a dual supporting role as Black Mike Sylva and Ah Wing. MGM's The Unholy Three (1. Chaney as a criminal ventriloquist named Professor Echo; it was later remade by MGM in 1. Jack Conway (again with Chaney) - it was Chaney's first and only talkie before he died of throat cancer MGM's The Blackbird (1. Chaney portrayed the dual roles of Dan 'The Blackbird' and The Bishop. MGM's The Road to Mandalay (1. Chaney took the role of Singapore Joe MGM's London After Midnight (1. Browning's first Hollywood vampire film (a lost film) in which. Chaney starred as a sunken and dark- eyed vampirish character. MGM's The Unknown (1. Chaney portrayed Alonzo the Armless Knife- thrower, a circus performer, with an obsession for a carnival girl (Joan Crawford in an early role) in its tale of a love- triangle MGM's West of Zanzibar (1. Chaney was cast as English magician named Phroso, now crippled and bald- headed and known as 'Dead- Legs' in . This film was a technical achievement. Technicolor 'Bal Masque' sequence, the falling chandelier. Its dark expressionistic tones helped set the. Its most famous scene was ingenue Christine's. Mary Philbin) unmasking of Lon Chaney's mask - revealing a hideous skull- face. Arthur Lubin. Universal's Technicolored version with Claude Rains as the title character. Nelson Eddy as Raoul, the Phantom's rival. Christine's (Susanna Foster) love. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Terence Fisher. with Herbert Lom (of Pink Panther fame) in a UK Hammer Films production. Professor Petrie/the Phantom and Heather Sears as Christine Charles. The Phantom of the Paradise (1. Brian De. Palma. a rock- opera musical version (and cult favorite) starring Paul Williams. Svengali impresario named the Swan. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Robert Markowitz. TV movie starring a miscast Jane Seymour and Maximilian Schell. Phantom, set in Budapest. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Andrew Lloyd Webber theatrical musical show, featuring Sarah Brightman The Phantom of the Opera (1. Little. with Robert Englund (horror movie villain Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare. Elm Street series) as the Phantom and Jill Schoelen as Christine. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Tony Richardson. a two- part NBC- TV mini- series, with Burt Lancaster starring as the Baron. Phantom's father (in one of his final film appearances), Teri Polo. Christine, and Charles Dance as the Phantom. The Phantom of the Opera (1. Darwin Knight. a theatrical musical created by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopil and filmed. David Staller and Elizabeth Walsh. Il Fantasma Dell'Opera (1. It.) (aka The Phantom. Opera), d. Dario Argento, a loose adaptation with daughter Asia. Argento as Christine and Julian Sands as the nameless Phantom (without a. Ennio Morricone. The Phantom of the Opera (2. Joel Schumacher. with Gerard Butler as the lead character, and starlet Emmy Rossum (a trained. Christine; also with Minnie Driver and Miranda Richardson . Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Films: There were a few very early renditions in the 1. Robert Louis. Stevenson's story . Jekyll and Mr. Jekyll and Mr. The first filmed version was also the first American horror film - director Otis Turner's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1. The Scariest Horror Movies Every Man Should Watch. We asked our fave horror fans and practitioners—including Eli Roth, Mel Brooks (!), John Carpenter, Guillermo del Toro, and the Human Centipede guy—to compile the most terrifying movies you probably should see. Bring your blankie. Don’t get us wrong: the full- length movie is still a verifiable pants- pooper. Imagine: You and your twin brother live in the Austrian/Czech countryside, which is beautiful but so remote that even the sweet summer breezes are creepy. Then, your mom leaves you there, in your big, empty house, completely alone. Then, she comes home, but her face is covered in bandages, her eyes all bloodshot. Then, you wonder, what if this isn’t really my mom, just someone pretending to be my mom? Scary, indeed. The difference between the trailer and the movie, though? In the film, you get a resolution. Yes, that resolution is certifiably fucked. But at least you get one. The trailer version instead gives you all the makings of a nightmare—cockroaches, masks, fires, mirrors—but without ever getting to the part where you wake up. Clay Skipper. The scariest thing about Robert Eggers' The Witch is that nothing is a metaphor; the goat in the yard actually is Satan, and the titular witch is not a figment of a colonial town’s nightmares—she’s a scary crone who lives in the forest. The Witch is more like spooky folklore than horror, validating Puritan fears about evil. But there’s an eeriness that lingers long after the movie’s over, and you won't even jump out of your seat. Unless you are, in fact, a Puritan. Lauren Larson. The scariest part of this 2. Australian horror film isn’t the monster. It’s the feeling that the shadowy monster might actually be real.. I wanted the audience to feel like they had a pair of hands wrapped. And then an. explosion of everything crushing down on them. Suspense has more to do. Jennifer Kent, Writer/Director. BONUS! John Carpenter on spooky sounds. When I wrote the theme from Halloween, it was a rhythm my. I just walked it up an octave on piano, then. There’s no more to it than that. It’s repetitive. We know they’re being exploited for sensationalism’s sake, but that’s how they earned a living in those rubbernecking times; in its opportunistic, semi- documentary way, Tod Browning’s film preserved a carny subculture that nobody belonged to by choice. The frequently crude filmmaking, artless dialogue, and tinny soundtrack augment the queasy effect, but there’s nothing inept about the movie’s showpiece sequences: the . The sugary ending with Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and the little kid. Empire State Building is nightmarish. Happy. endings only exist at Amsterdam massage parlors. Tom Six. Poltergeist (1. But it’s actually a rare example of a fiendishly efficient all- ages horror movie, blending the stuff that frightens kids (thunderstorms, monsters in the closet, clown dolls) with the stuff that frightens mortgage- holders (children in peril, sudden collapses in property values, clown dolls). It’s effectively a war movie about a family defending itself against an uprising of lost souls, and part of its genius is that the battlefield isn’t, say, a creaky Gothic mansion or a haunted hotel complex in winter but a cookie- cutter suburban- California house where even the most mundane objectsthe TV set, chairs around the kitchen tablecan be recruited to the dark side. Jessica Winter. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY SCARE O. SIMPSON? You want to have fun while you’re being scared. Like a roller. coaster ride, your heart should be in your mouth but you need to be. The biggest Oh my God!- scary movie is Alien. I. watched it at an industry screening two rows behind O. I would’ve been embarrassed if Simpson hadn’t jumped much. If it could scare the Juice, I was okay. It still causes major problems in my personal relationship with Joshua Leonard, one of the movie’s stars. I have a hard time being around him whenever he’s facing a corner. Like, We can hang out; you just gotta stay in the middle of the fucking room, dude. That image was ingrained in my subconscious forever. The feeling behind the movie was very realistic. Something about the way the movie is shot, with the lo- fi camera, gave a bit of intimacy to it all. It was just unique and unsettling. There was no thinking; it was mostly just urinating. Mark Duplass, Actor/Filmmaker. Holy crap, The Exorcist (1. I was 1. 4 when I saw it, permanently scarred for life. Thereafter, for many years, I wouldn’t, couldn’t, be left alone in a room at night. My bad dreams revolved around scenes in the movie, of green puke and the voice of Beelzebub, saying really really inappropriate stuff. If I became feverish, I was pretty sure it was Pazuzuthe evil spirit who inhabits Linda Blaircome to mess me up. And Ouija boards? But the real horror is the horrible realization that darkness may really win out over good, that our universe is bursting at the seams with violence and entropy. It’s the horror of a really sweet, loving, decent kidjust like all of us, for fuck’s sake! It’s the horror of possession and the proximity of chaos and a glimmer of that unconscious force that might unravel all of us. The Exorcist is a game of chicken for our souls, and you know from early on, that someone’s gonna end up dead. You just keeping hoping it won’t be you. Michael Paterniti. Easily the most traumatizing aspect of The Omen (1. It’s a noisy film replete with bloodcurdling screamsbut what really gets under your skin is the cacophony of dog attacks, baboon creeches, and sheer ghoulishness of happy kids shrieking and then going silent for the ropy recoil of a noose. Zero suspension of disbelief required. It was to me entirely plausible that Lucifer’s son was a podgy English boy in a spread- collar, bell- bottom pile- fabric suit, and a kid being diabolical scared me as a non- practicing baby Catholic. I was trapped in the catch- 2. Choi. I showed Who Can Kill a Child? Island of the Damned; 1. Quentin Tarantino, and he said it was the best horror movie that he hadn’t seen before. It’s like a Hitchcock moviebrilliant and so simple. A guy and his pregnant wife go on vacation to this island off the coast of Spain; they get there, and the adults are gone. Just very, very creepy kids. They realize that something infected the kids and they all went crazy, killed the adults. So he’s got to defend himself, but how do you kill a 3- year- old kid? Like, you can’t. It’s your instinct to protect children, but these are amazing killer kids. There’s a scene where they’re trapped in a jail cell, and they look up, and there’s a 3- year- old, and he’s got a gun and starts pointing it at the couple in the jail cell. And the kid’s just smiling. Totally nuts. Eli Roth, Writer/Director, Hostel, Cabin Fever. The films that have really scared me give me the feeling that whoever made it is dangerous and crazy. Like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1. I really, literally, thought that was made by a Manson Family- like group in Texas somewhere. As a filmmaker, you have to cross those lines, as I did in my first couple of films to the point where people spurned my company. The audience has to feel like the director is dangerous: He crossed lines he shouldn’t cross, and he might put anything up on the screen. Wes Craven, Filmmaker, Scream series, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Last House On The Left. David Lynch taps into something unexplainable. Like the scene in Mulholland Dr. It’s one of the scariest scenes ever committed to film, but it shouldn’t be. Nothing about that scene should be scary at all. Lynch is able to tap into something that’s scary for human beings: fear of the unknown. A big clich about Lynch is that his films are dreamlike, but it’s true. Dreams follow weird logic. Lynch’s films are like that: feels like a nightmare. Leigh Whannell, Writer, Saw and Insidious series. In 1. 97. 4, with the bad half of a marijuana cigarette in me, I experienced this film on Hollywood Boulevard that just rocks my world: Sisters (1. Siamese twins. The Brian De Palma film stars Margot Kidder, in French- Canadian lushness. And there’s a phenomenal mad doctor played by William Finley. He’s like a giant sweating grasshopper. It’s just an incredible performance; he literally cuts the Siamese twins in half so that he can fuck one of them. That’s what he’s after. I would love to see it correctly projected, although I’m sure there’s a Blu- ray out. It would look great on a fifty- inch flat- screen with curvature in the goddamn man cave.** Robert Englund, Actor (Freddy Krueger)**I jumped up and ran screaming to the back of the theater but eventually sat back down, because I was fascinated. Horrified, but fascinated. I saw It Came from Outer Space (1. D, which was not a good thing for a young kid. A meteor (we find out later it’s a spaceship) streaks across the desert night sky. Cut to an angle where the burning ball of fire comes hurtling straight into the camera and explodes. I didn’t understand anything. Why is this meteor blowing up in my face? Horror works best when you’re young, when we have these imaginations that are still very active. As you get older, your knowledge of your own limits, and of death, sometimes takes away from horror’s appeal. John Carpenter, Creator, Halloween. The reason I made Young Frankenstein was because when I was 5 or 6 years old, I was scared out of my wits by James Whale’s Frankenstein. I could not get images of Boris Karloff’s face out of my head. I would see him in every alley and around every dark corner. One very hot night in July, I asked my mother to close my bedroom window. In Brooklyn in 1. I explained that Frankenstein (that is what we mistakenly called The Monster) was out to get me! And since my bedroom window was on the fire escape, it would be easy for him to climb up and crush me like a bug. My mother patiently explained that he would have to crawl out of his burning cellar in Transylvania and find the money to buy a railway ticket to get a train to take him to Hamburg.
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