301 Horror Movies to See Before You Die

Sorry for another list but I have these sitting on my computer so figured I would keep sharing. I am not sure the history or qualifications of this list but I believe it was something members of the IMDb horror board came up with.

[REC]
28 Days Later
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Serbian Film
A Tale of Two Sisters
A Warning to the Curious
A Whisper in the Dark
Alien
Altered
Altered States
American Psycho
An American Werewolf in London
Angel Heart
Angst
Antibodies
April Fool's Day
Army of Darkness
Assault! Jack the Ripper
Audrey Rose
Bad Taste
Basket Case
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Belve Feroci
Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Black Christmas
Black Sabbath
Black Sunday
Blind Beast
Blood and Roses
Blood Feast
Blood for Dracula
Blue Sunshine
Body Double
Brain Damage
Bug
Burial Ground: Nights of Terror
Caligula
Candyman
Cannibal Campout
Cannibal Holocaust
Cape Fear
Carnival of Souls
Carrie
Cat People
Chaos
Chute de la Maison Usher
Creepshow
Cube
Curse of the Werewolf
Dance of the Damned
Dark Water (2002)
Dark Waters (1994)
Daughters of Darkness
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Day of the Dead
Dead Alive
Dead and Buried
Dead Heat
Dead of Night
Death Bed
Deathdream
Dellamorte Dellamore
Demon Seed
Demons (1985)
Demonsamongus
Dog Soldiers
Don't Look Now
Dracula (1931)
Duel
Dust Devil
Ebola Syndrome
Eden Lake
Equus
Eraserhead
Eugenie D'Sade
Event Horizon
Evil Dead II
Eyes Without a Face
Face of Another
Faces of Death
Faust
Fido
Flesh and the Bloody Terror
Frankenstein
Freaks
Friday the 13th
Fright Night
Frightmare (1974)
From Beyond
Funhouse
Gin Gwai
Ginger Snaps
God Told Me To
Gojira
Gremlins
Grindhouse
Halloween
Halloween II (1985)
Halloween II (2009)
Hangover Square
Hard to Die
Hardware
Hatchet
Hausu
Hellraiser
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
High Tension
Hostel
Hour of the Wolf
House by the Cemetery
House of Mortal Sin
House of Usher
House with Laughing Windows
I Drink Your Blood
I Walked with a Zombie
In a Glass Cage
In the Mouth of Madness
Inferno
INLAND EMPIRE
Inside
Intruder
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Jacob's Ladder
Jaws
Kill, Baby, Kill
King Kong
Korkarlen
Kwaidan
Last House on the Left
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Let the Right One In
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Lisa and the Devil
Litan
Long Weekend
Luther the Geek
Mad Love
Man Bites Dog
Maniac
Mannequin in Red
Marebito
Mark of the Devil
Martin
Martyrs
Masque of the Red Death
May
Mill of the Stone Women
Murders in the Zoo
Murder-Set-Pieces
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Near Dark
Nekromantik
New York Ripper
Night of the Demon (1957)
Night of the Demon (1980)
Night of the Demons (1988)
Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Werewolf
Noroi: The Curse
Nosferatu (1922)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Onibaba
Open Water
Opera
Pan's Labyrinth
Paranormal Activity
Perfume of the Lady in Black
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pieces
Piranha
Pitch Black
Planet of the Vampires
Possession
Predator
Prince of Darkness
Profondo Rosso
Psycho
Ravenous
Razorback
Re-Animator
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Repulsion
Return of the Living Dead
Ringu
Ringu 0
Rosemary's Baby
Salo
Santa Sangre
Satanico Pandemonium
Saw
Scanners
Scream
Scream of Fear
Se7en
Session 9
Shaun of the Dead
Shivers
Silence of the Lambs
Singapore Sling
Slither
Slumber Party Massacre
Snuff 102
Sommarens tolv manader
Spider Baby
Spoorloos
Straw Dogs
Suspiria
Tenebre
Tetsuo
The Beyond
The Birds
The Black Pit of Dr. M
The Blair Witch Project
The Blob
The Body Snatcher
The Boxer's Omen
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Centerfold Girls
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Descent
The Devil-Doll
The Devils
The Devil's Rejects
The Evil Dead
The Exorcist
The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Flesh and the Fiends
The Fly (1986)
The Fog
The Grapes of Death
The Haunted
The Honeymoon Killers
The Howling
The Human Centipede
The Innocents
The Invisible Man
The Killer Snakes
The Killing of Satan
The Last Broadcast
The Last Horror Movie
The Last House on Dead End Street
The Living and the Dead
The Living Skeleton
The Lodger (1944)
The Man They Could Not Hang
The Manson Family
The Mephisto Waltz
The Mist
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy (1932)
The Nanny
The Ninth Gate
The Old Dark House
The Omen
The Orphanage
The Others
The Reflecting
Skin
The Ring
The Ruins
The Sect
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Stepfather
The Stepford Wives
The Tenant
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing
The Thing from Another World
The Thrill Killers
The Toxic Avenger
The Ugly
The Unknown (1927)
The Vault of Horror
The Virgin Spring
The Wicker Man
The Witchfinder General
The Wolf Man
Them!
Thirst
Through the Looking Glass
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Torso
Tourist Trap
Triangle
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Vampyr
Videodrome
What Have You Done to Solange?
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
When a Stranger Calls
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Who Can Kill a Child?
Wolf Creek
Yngsjomordet
Young Frankenstein
Zombi

That film with that bloke who was in that other fi

What was it? It had that guy in it who was in that other film. American he was, spoke with a deep voice. In this film he talks to this woman and says something about his job or something. The woman is also American and she giggles a lot.

Anyone know what the film is?

Burial Ground (1981)



Incest is funny to me. Out of all the taboo subjects I can think of, incest definitely makes me laugh the hardest. It's a nasty, fucked up thing that I don't quite understand. But it is reality. That we can all agree on. Brother and sister, father and daughter, maybe even grammy and grampy get involved from time to time, but to me, nothing seems quite as awkward and uncomfortable as mother on son love. Or in this one case, son on mother. Today, I want to talk about a movie that is very dear to my heart. A movie that shamelessly, and very randomly, adds a tasty little sub plot involving incest. One boy's dream of someday sticking it to the woman who shat him out into the world. Or at least copping as many feels as he can get away with. Maybe he's sick, but in his defense, little Michael's mom is still pretty hot. Just sayin'

But what's Michael's deal? Well, I don't know, exactly. But he's not at all normal. That's established before he even says anything. Michael is being dragged by mother and her new husband out to the country to stay in an old mansion with two other couples, who all enjoy flirting with each other very much. The only thing worse than being a third wheel is being a seventh wheel, says Michael. Or I'm sure that's what he was thinkng. He doesn't seem very happy about this vacation, and it's made obvious that he feels threatened by the new step father, as he tries to horn in every chance he gets, which is usually successful. But back to how not normal this "kid" is. Little Michael's lack of normalness and his flat out creepiness is partly due to the fact that he is being portrayed by an adult. A pale, little man named Peter Bark. And his voice is dubbed in English by another adult trying in vain to sound like a child. Also, Michael looks a bit like a mini-Dario Argento. Or maybe Argento looks like a jumbo Peter Bark. There's really no way of telling. Welcome to Burial Ground!

So, yeah. This is a zombie movie. "The professor", who lived in this mansion, decided to resurrect the dead for some reason and ended up paying for it with his life, presumably, the night before everyone showed up. And as we now wait for the giddy couples to get torn apart, we're treated to plenty of filler, involving these people frollicking about in the garden, and making out. Eventually, zombies emerge from the caves and invade the countryside, ruining an otherwise pleasant weekend for all. The zombies are here, and they're not going away. And some of them even look like The Toxic Avenger.



These are some extremely old corpses. And slow ones. They really shouldn't be a problem to avoid, but somehow, end up being a huge one for these people who all manage to do everything wrong when attemtping to flee these things. In fact, stupidity has rarely been so abundant in a Horror film as it is in Burial Ground. Looking back, nobody should have had to die in this film, but they certainly did, and things get really gory. Meanwhile, little Michael never seems to give up on this thing with his mom. No matter how bad things get, or how scared he gets, it's always in the back of his mind. I can tell.

Directed by Giallo master, Andrea Bianchi, Burial Ground is one of the first bad Horror films that I fell in love with, and to this day, still my all-time favorite Italian Horror film. And it may sound a bit excessive, but I'm proud to say that this is one of the few films I own on vhs, dvd and blu-ray. The blu-ray looks fantastic, but I seem to always find myself going back to my beloved Vestron copy whenever I feel the urge. Technically, this is a terrible way to watch the film, as it's dark, grainy and just plain awful looking. But somehow, this only adds to the nightmarish tone of it all. The gore mixed with the glorious stupidity, and of course the thick layer of sleaziness that you could cut with a knife, makes Burial Ground one of the all-time great bad/WTF movies. As a zombie film, it's not the best thing ever, but the dark atmosphere and constant sense of dread makes this not only hilarious, but a pretty decent Horror film on top of it. Best of both worlds.

But back to the one thing this film will be remembered for. Little Michael. This freak of nature is something to behold. A character that seemingly exists just to fuck with our heads for all time. A boy who knows what he wants and goes for it, a character with a built-in sub plot that will go down in B-movie history as one of the most random and creepy qualities ever put to film. With all the chaos involving the dead, Michael's hardon for his mother is simply just there. Never really the point, but always there. Clearly, the boy had a lot of issues. Some of which maybe not even mother-related. Issues we could have even seen explored had the dead not gotten involved. But, unfortunately, we'll never know what evil or insanity was behind those cold, dead eyes. Maybe we're better off not knowing. 8/10



#Review

Amicus films and other horror anthology films.

I love horror anthology movies. They're up there with slasher and zombie movies for me.

I think 'Creepshow' is probably the most well-known horror anthology film. Written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero, it's a fun ride with a lot of cool actors, all to the music of John Harrison (who also did the soundtrack for 'Day of the Dead'). It was followed by a not-so-well-known and not-as-good-but-still-fun sequel, 'Creepshow 2'. There's also a 'Creepshow III', but it apparently really sucks, so I've never bothered with it.

Between the first two 'Creepshow' movies, a series was started called 'Tales from the Darkside'. It's a lot like 'Tales from the Crypt' in how its episodes are. A different story of terror with each episode. But originally, it was going to a 'Creepshow' TV series. Several years later however, after 'Creepshow 2', came a movie called 'Tales from the Darkside: The Movie'. So that's pretty much the real third 'Creepshow' movie.

Enough on the history lesson though. I'm a big fan of the first two 'Creepshow' movies, as well as 'Tales from the Dark: The Movie'. How I feel about most anthology movies is, even if one segment kind of sucks, it won't be long before you get a different, and hopefully better, segment. But to me, it's not just about each individual story. It's also about the wrap-around story and how it's presented. Is there a 'host' of some kind, a character that knows each person's story in the movie or something along those lines? If so, that can make the wrap-around story even more enjoyable.

Well, years before the first 'Creepshow' movie, Amicus started putting out there own horror anthology films, starting with 'Dr. Terror's House of Horrors'. Then there was 'Torture Garden', 'The House That Dripped Blood', 'Asylum', 'Tales from the Crypt', 'The Vault of Horror', and 'From Beyond the Grave'. I won't really go into each film individually, though I will say my personal favorites are 'Asylum', 'Tales from the Crypt', and 'From Beyond the Grave'.

What I like about them most I'd say is the overall feel of them. It's hard to describe. It's a feel that I never get with any newer horror movie though. I guess just because of time those were made in. The settings and stories somehow just usually went together perfectly. Nothing really felt forced or out of place. Compared to the more recent 'Trick 'r Treat', which isn't nearly as smooth or intriguing. I don't hate 'Trick 'r Treat', but it's definitely a shell of what horror anthology films used to be.

I guess a big part of what made those Amicus ones work is also the actors that were involved, mainly Peter Cushing, who was in more of them than anyone else. Maybe it was something about UK actors from that era? Because I can't imagine those movies turning out quite the same if US actors/producers/directors had been involved. There would have been a very different feel.

Not to come off as some kind of pretentious snob who thinks only films made outside of the US are best (which would completely conflict with my 'Maximum Overdrive' article anyway), but in the case of horror anthology movies from that era, Amicus and all the people in the UK involved with those movies knew their shit. That said, I do think it's funny how most of the sources for their movies' stories came from US sources, like EC Comics and Robert Bloch.

There were a couple non-Amicus movies from then too. One was 'Tales That Witness Madness' and the other was 'The Monster Club'. Both involved people who were also involved with the Amicus movies though, so they also have a similar feel to them. However, 'The Monster Club' has a much cheesier vibe to it also than the others. Not sure if that's because it was made in the 1980s or because it had two US actors, Vincent Price and John Carradine. Of course, those two alone make the movie worth seeing.

I personally doubt that horror anthology films will ever make any kind of real comeback, but I'll always have an interest in them.

#Amicus #Anthologies #Creepshow #TalesFromTheDarkside

Who're your favorite companies to buy movies from?

These days, I buy a lot of Shout Factory's releases. They aren't quite as expensive as some other companies and they're usually full of special features. I've also recently gotten into Arrow and Lionsgate's Vestron series. Too bad it's taken Lionsgate so long to realize that releasing VHS rips on DVD isn't what collectors want.

I used to be heavily into Anchor Bay, but they've lost a lot of their catalog, holding onto only a few big titles like Halloween and Evil Dead. Their spinoff, Blue Underground, seems to be faring slightly better. I figure streaming has hurt some of these companies, but business must not be too bad with the amount of new titles Shout Factory announces weekly.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

What happens when best selling horror author, dreamweaver, visionary (plus actor), Garth Marenghi turns his power to terrify to the small screen in true auter fashion?



Darkplace. That's what happenes!

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Sadly, Marenghi's magnum opus was simply too terrifying to viewers to watch and retain their sanity, and he, and producer/publisher Dean Learner, we're cut off in their creative prime. Audiences (except for those who saw the small run in Peru) would have to wait over 20 years for the series to see the light of broadcast, complete with interviews from the key players.

So what is Darkplace?

Darkplace Hospital, Romford, is no ordinary hospital. It it home to the gates of hell (in the canteen), telekenetic rage and attacking office equipment, mutants, ghostly tartan mists, and space brocolli. But only one man can take this in his cowboy-booted stride, and fix it with his magnum .44. Dr Rick Dagless, MD (Marenghi).

Ever under the watchful gaze of Thornton Reed (Learner), the hospital's manager, Dagless must battle the forces of darkness, and be the world's most best surgeon, while raising money to complete the kiddie wing.

Rounding out the cast are Todd Rivers, as Dr Lucien Sanchez, Dagless' good buddy, and Madeline Wool as a... woman.

If you needed any reassuring of the horrificacity of Darkplace, here's a mutant eyeball raping a man...


No expense was spared on high calibre actors


special effects


and slow motion.


Darkplace is a must for any true horror fan.

At least that's what it appears to be.

Darkplace (2004) is, in fact, a comic masterpiece from Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade. A perfect parody of preachy, pompous perversity. Garth Marenghi is part Stephen King, part Ramsey Campbell, part James Herbert and completely terrible. He is a comic misanthrope almost on par with Basil Fawlty, albeit in a very different mold. His fauxlosophic narrations, casual bigotry, and constant explanation of foreign words have endless comic possibilities - French for possibilities...

Coupled with this is the sub-plot of Dean Learner's apparent psychopthay, and, in the DVD extras Darkplace Illuminatum and Horrificata Illuminata, Todd Rivers (Matt Berry) alcoholism (and apparent fact that he's never actually watched the show).

There is also a loving devotion to all the bad soap operas, cheap horror series, and so on, and so many background jokes, that rewatches are mandatory - each new viewing uncovers a new, hilarious detail - particularly look out for the continuity, lip-synch, sound dubbing, and so on - and pay special attention to the music - there are a few recognisable horror influences in there.

It is a loveletter to trash, TV, pop-culture, and epic horror and so, belongs right here on Trash Epics.

The thoroughness of the homage, and the skill with which it has been put together are marvelous. Sadly, for TV channel related reasons, Darkplace only lasted for one 6-episode series, but perhaps that's for the best. I think more would simply spoil the joke. So enjoy it for what it is, and also seek out the spin off series "Man to Man with Dean Learner" from the same team.

Luckily for you, Darkplace is available in its entirity on YouTube.


So sit back, be it on your sofa, armchair or beanbag if that's how you choose to live your life. Dim the lights (or switch them off if you don't have dimmers), put conventional logic to oneside and prepare yourself to enter the world of Garth Marenghi.

Enjoy. I say enjoy...



#Comedy

Jim Parsons, in The Signal (2007)

This movie really runs the gamut, from really demented and disturbing to really demented and hilarious. The Jim Parsons scene was the funniest, I thought. You could definitely argue about that, because there are several extremely funny scenes, but this is the one that my mind goes back to the most, as the one that cheers me up and just makes me laugh. It might not be funny unless you have watched the scenes leading up to it, because there's just so much carnage and mayhem in the preceding scenes that it makes this hapless, cheerful, horny partygoer just ten times funnier than he might have been otherwise.

Electric Boogaloo (2014)

Anyone here seen Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films yet? If not, you must! It's quite the excellent documentary on Cannon Films and Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, the two men who ran it. Sure, a lot of what they distributed was considered trashy and their repuation in Hollywood was poor, but the doc makes apparent their love and passion for film and the industry as a whole. While Golan and Globus themselves aren't featured in it, a lot of people who worked with them are and they give a lot of insight into Cannon Films and how the bubble burst with them so to speak.

Trash Epics Rec Challenge?

Word up, homos. With the rec challenge nearly finished over on IMDb, I was wondering who'd be up for something similar here? You'd be up for it, that's who.

There's a couple of advantages to having a challenge here rather than IMDb:
1. Less participants. Prolly only a half dozen or so of us would join in. Dat means, with 5 or 6 recs each, there'd only be a max 25-30 movies to watch over the span of a year. Easy peasy.
2. We all have fairly similar taste, meaning a high hit-rate for movies you enjoy. I mean, we all love boobs and gore and rape and trannies, right? So long as we all keep our recs trashy and epic, it's a guaranteed good time for all.

Sounds amazing, right? Hell, you'd have to be a weak-willed, syphillis-riddled, dog-fucking loser to not take a shot at a challenge this awesome. You're not one of them, are you? ARE YOU?

So if you're interested, say so here. If there's enough interest, then we'll probs kick off around mid January, so's everyone can get their recs in. If noone's up for it, that's cool. I'll just edit this post and thread title, and turn it into a thread full of piccies of Japanese chicks pissing on each other. Win-win!

Who the fuck knows what God wants?!?

I was just thinking, over the past few days, what a great line that is. Most of you probably already recognized it, from.... wait for it... the Aileen Wuornos movie Monster, in which Charlize Theron proved that she is not merely a paltry, run of the mill mega-babe, but one hell of an actress.

Seriously, isn't that a great line? It is under-appreciated, I think. There should be t-shirts and coffee mugs with that line, all over the place, even now, 12-14-ish years later, or whatever. In fact, maybe there are, in communities where that sort of thing is tolerated. I would get a lot of LOOKS if I walked around in a t-shirt like that, where I live. But, whatever.