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13 Great Horror Movies for Friday the 13th
13 Great Horror Movies
John Doe usually has a horror movie marathon every year with a gal pal of his whenever Friday the 13th or Halloween clocks around, but she’s away on business. So in honour of her absence I thought it would be fun to list off 13 of our favourites that tend to be worshipped, maybe more than they should in this house.
In no order and with little fore-thought, here are 13 great horror movies. Some classics and others that just aren’t talked up enough. Entertaining and frightening some will make you giggle, some will make you gasp but all have celluloid imagery to scar the psyche..
1. David Cronenburg’s Shivers (1975) or Rabid (1977)
2. Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973)
3. John Carpenter’s Into The Mouth of Madness (1995)
4. Lucky McKee May (2002)
5. Richard Donner’s The Omen (1976)
6. Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead (1981)
7. Neil Marshal Dog Soldiers (2002)
Here is a nicely gruesome scene from Dog Soldiers to get proceedings off on the right foot.
8. Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973)
Below you can watch the blood curdling and emotionally crippling opening to Don’t Look Now
9. Adrian Lynne’s Jacobs Ladder (1990)
Heres a demonic scene from Jacobs Ladder where Tim Robbins may be seeing creatures from hell.
10. Alan Parker’s Angel Heart (1987)
Here’s a smokin’ scene of Mickey Rourke back when he was pretty, playing the Private Eye Harry Angel.
11. Herk Harvey Carnival of Souls (1962)
Watch the twisted trailer below
12. Don Coscareli’s Bubba Ho Tep (2002)
Click below and let the contagious comedy work its mojo
13. Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Spoilers Below: If you haven’t seen Rosemary’s Baby then you should wait to witness the memorable finale below.
So what are you watching tonite?
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In no order and with little fore-thought, here are 13 great horror movies. Some classics and others that just aren’t talked up enough. Entertaining and frightening some will make you giggle, some will make you gasp but all have celluloid imagery to scar the psyche..
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2. Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973)
3. John Carpenter’s Into The Mouth of Madness (1995)
4. Lucky McKee May (2002)
5. Richard Donner’s The Omen (1976)
6. Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead (1981)
7. Neil Marshal Dog Soldiers (2002)
Here is a nicely gruesome scene from Dog Soldiers to get proceedings off on the right foot.
8. Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973)
Below you can watch the blood curdling and emotionally crippling opening to Don’t Look Now
9. Adrian Lynne’s Jacobs Ladder (1990)
Heres a demonic scene from Jacobs Ladder where Tim Robbins may be seeing creatures from hell.
10. Alan Parker’s Angel Heart (1987)
Here’s a smokin’ scene of Mickey Rourke back when he was pretty, playing the Private Eye Harry Angel.
11. Herk Harvey Carnival of Souls (1962)
Watch the twisted trailer below
12. Don Coscareli’s Bubba Ho Tep (2002)
Click below and let the contagious comedy work its mojo
13. Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Spoilers Below: If you haven’t seen Rosemary’s Baby then you should wait to witness the memorable finale below.
So what are you watching tonite?
Maybe the tv execs are scarred
Maybe the tv execs are scarred
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what can I say ...
Sensational list.
Sensational.
What resonates most stongly from your list is rather subliime mix of the visceral and the intellectual ...
Images from all the films you selected come flooding to mind ...
My only tiny gripe ... is that I wasn't grabbed by Bubba Ho Tep like you were ... odd, since Coscarelli's Phantasm is, for me, a truly seminal horror film.
But still ... rockin' selection.
Take care,
Nick
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Rosemary's Baby is quite funny, actually...
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Totally with you , it is silly that commercial Tv would not screen any horror on Friday the 13th..at least a midnight special or something..
Bryn, from you that is the highest compliment.....glad you dig em.....Bubba aint for everyone but the way ot plays with the Elvis mythology is enough to keep me comigh back time and again....Don Coscarelli's Phantasm is a horror delight and I also enjoyed his tacky z grade fantasy Beastmaster
Hi NickOfTime's Sanity Corner,
Is that the Forgotten with Julianne Moore? If so I see the similarities between that and Dont Look Now, but still wasn't overly impressed with the film.
Glad you enjoyed the list and please come back soon.
Hi Cib,
Rosemary's Baby is funny??? I find a lot of supposed horror films highly amusing but Polanski's gem ain't one of em. The drenched atmosphere and manipulative sound do a number on me every time.
Oh well as we have discussed Horror is the most subjective genre next to comedy so I understand.
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Tanya gets her Queens of the jungle out and Marc Singer is dressed in his best soft porn garb too.
Its an utterely crap movie, a great laugh...we all have our weaknesses. Not one that I would recommend to the uninitated.
Im rightfully ashamed that i like it, there is no defence.
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Haha Shivers, nice. I remember getting that movie not knowing what i was getting into. It does have one of the greatest horror movie scenes of all time too. I always hated when people get infected and then the lover or supposed love like gets eaten by him/her because they don't have the guts to kill him/her. And while this doesn't happen here, right when she gets infected he gives her a good whack to the face, knocking her out. I swear i flung my hands up and shouted "That's how it's done!"
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I can get the criterion collection release of Salo now I am in the U.S...but then so can you online
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Shivers is still a top flight Cronenberg nightmare for its cold treatment...have you seen Rabid, more of the same and equally intense.