Wolfy Jankp's 10 Favorite Horror Flicks/TDOH W/O
Oct 31 '03
The Bottom Line I feel like howling at the moon.....
I never realized until I created this list that I have a thing for werewolves, hehe. I haven't seen some of the classics unfortunately, but have enjoyed many of the ones on peoples' lists like The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Psycho and The Shining. I've, though, decided to share other horror flicks I love that shouldn't be overlooked. With a movie from each decade starting with the 30s, it's a fun, classy, intriguing, horrifying collection I hope you'll enjoy!
In order of theatrical release:
1933: The Invisible Man (James Whale, director): Claude Rains is a scientist who discovers how to make himself invisible, who tries it without an antidote to realize it's making him insane. His demented laughter as he has invisible fun with the poor landlady, police and villagers rings as clear as if I were watching it now. His scientific partner and fiancée must choose to expose him before he kills more-maybe them!
1941: The Wolf Man (George Waggner, director): Lon Chaney Jr. took over a star-making role from what was intended to be for Boris Karloff. He plays a man returning to his homeland Wales only to be attacked by a gypsy turned werewolf (Bela Lugosi). At every full moon he too will become a werewolf; now will his dad (Claude Rains) accept him back into the family? Eerie dark woods combined with howling made sure I didn't twice watch this alone.
1958: The Blob (Irvin S. Yearworth Jr.): Teenager Steve MacQueen discovers some gooey stuff in the country while on a date and upon investigating it they notice it's grown and moving towards town. Nothing will stop it and no one in town believes the kids' warning. Won't they be sorry! This alien has a voracious, sickening appetite.
1962: Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, director): Candace Hilligoss seems to have drowned with her two girlfriends, but suddenly she stumbles out of the river and has no idea what happened. Soon she makes plans to move on and becomes an organist in the new town, but with strange zombies appearing and feeling like she doesn't belong in our world, she's compelled to check out an abandoned carnival. Note how the organ music reveals her soul's descent into hell.
1974: Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, director): This inimitable horror-comedy needs little introduction. Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle as the misunderstood monster wonderfully spoof the Mary Shelley story. My favorite scene is when the mad doctor is locked in with his monster and has to make him feel loved.
1981: An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, director): After my first viewing, I found this movie simply hilarious with its horrorific make-up effects. David Naughton and male friend are attacked by a vicious werewolf while walking at night in...Germany? David's friend becomes a walking dead while David becomes a werewolf every full moon. It takes visits from his hellish-looking friend and waking up naked in the zoo to convince David all is not right. The story has a spoof edge to it and I love it!
1982: The Thing (John Carpenter, director): A shape-shifting alien invades a scientists' compound in Antartica through a dog and before long everyone's wondering who has become the alien. Kurt Russell tries to keep things under control, but there's only so much a man can do. Spellbinding horror with quite a payoff at the end.
1997: Event Horizon (Paul W. S. Anderson, director): Like a horror-ified Solaris, a crew from a spaceship travel to Neptune with the creator of the Event Horizon to discover why it disappeared seven years ago. The creator (Sam Neill) knows just what happened to it, but the crew, led by Laurence Fishburne, have the sorry task of finding it out for themselves before they die. A manmade black hole causing hallucinations...or are they real? Yikes! This is what hell looks like!
2000: Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, director): Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabel play sisters fascinated with death. When the older one gets her period and is bitten by a werewolf as the full moon beams, the younger must save her from becoming one before Halloween and the next full moon. Becoming a woman is even more horrifying than she could have imagined. Gruesome effects are nothing to laugh about.
2002/1998: The Ring/Ringu (Gore Verbinski and Hideo Nakata, directors): In both a woman investigates the sudden deaths of teenage friends after they watched a videotape. When she finds it and watches the strange images, she realizes that she and her ex have only a week to live. The source of the curse is different in the movies, as well as style and the foreign one with subtitles, but both are gripping, involve a son and a mysterious little girl, and delivered the horror through a TV!
Runner-ups include Le Pacte des Loups or Brotherhood of the Wolf and I Was A Teenage Werewolf (with Michael Landon). Told you I have a thing for wolves, hehe. I already mentioned Killer Klowns From Outer Space in an earlier list. You may enjoy this list also:
http://www.epinions.com/content_3492782212
I also have full reviews of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and House of Wax/The Mystery of the Wax Museum found in my profile pages.
This has been an eleventh hour submission to JiggyJay's Ten Days of Halloween write-off. Please see his profile for more horrifying entries. http://www.epinions.com/user-jiggyjay
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