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Horror Movies | Other Movies | TV DVDs
This is by no means a complete list of my favorite films,
but a few of them off the top of my head. Here goes…
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THE BROOD (1979)
Written and Directed by David Cronenberg
Starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar
My favorite of all of Cronenberg's films.
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THE FLY (1986)
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by David Cronenberg, Charles Edward Pogue, and George Langelaan
Starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis
Brand new 2-disc edition. Goldblum should have won the Academy Award for his performance.
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THEY CAME FROM WITHIN (A.K.A. SHIVERS) (1975)
Written and Directed by David Cronenberg
Starring Paul Hampton
This is the film SLiTHER is most indebted to. Technically, it's a bit more awkward than Cronenberg's later films, but it has a magic to it I love. I had the editor of Slither, watch all these old Cronenberg films, and this was the only one he hated, so who knows.
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A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003)
Written and Directed by Ji-woon Kim
My favorite horror film of the past few years.
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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
Written and Directed by George A. Romero
Starring Duane Jones and Judity O'Dea
The key film that made me want to direct horror movies, and still the best of the Dead quadrilogy.
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MARTIN (1977)
Directed by George A. Romero
Written by John Russo and George Romero
My second favorite Romero film after NIGHT.
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THE DARK HALF (1993)
Written and Directed by George A. Romero
Starring ROOKER
Rooker told me Timothy Hutton and Amy Madigan were bastards to him on this movie. Fuck them. Where are you now, Hutton? And, Madigan, I'm glad Carnivale was canceled. Fuck you. Still, your movie's good. Thanks for that.
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ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
Written and Directed by Roman Polanski
Based on the novel by Ira Levin
Starring Mia Farrow
The greatest horror film of all time.
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HAXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES (1922)
Written and Directed by Benjamin Christensen
I love this silent film so much I want to keep it to myself and not even share it with you. It's an early mockumentary of sorts, only the Satanic ritual scenes are scary as hell. Who thought that a witch riding a broomstick could be so damn freaky?
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AUDITION (1999)
Directed by Takashi Miike
Written by Daisuke Tengan
Starring Ryo Ishibashi
Brutal and lovely. By the way: I'm just putting down random horror movies I love on this list, and find it interesting that this is the first movie that wasn't directed and at least co-written by the same person. I really love movies that come from a singular, united vision, and I think most often that comes from writer-directors.
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ALIEN (1979)
Directed by Ridley Scott
Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon
Starring Sigourney Weaver
All that hype about ALIENS being better than ALIEN? Total fucking bullshit. This was the first R-rated film I ever saw. The second was THE SHINING. The third was CHEECH AND CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE, which I thought was the funniest movie I ever saw. Obviously, as a young boy my taste in horror was far more advanced than my taste for comedy.
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THE THING (1982)
Directed by John Carpenter
Written by Bill Lancaster
Starring Kurt Russell
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THEY LIVE (1988)
Directed by John Carpenter
Screenplay by Frank Armitage
Starring ³Rowdy² Roddy Piper
THEY LIVE lacks the elegance of THE THING, or even HALLOWEEN, but it's just as, if not even more, fun.
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BASKET CASE (1982)
Written and Directed by Frank Henenlotter
Starring Kevin Van Hentenryck
The grimy grit, over-saturated colors, and Times Square locales in this film make me feel what it must have been like trolling for hookers and drugs on 42nd street back in the day. Oh, if only I was a few years younger!! When I moved to New York in the Œ90's I looked up Henenlotter in the phone book and saw he was listed. I wanted to call but was too frightenedŠ instead I named a bar after him in SLiTHER, the Henenlotter Saddle Lodge.
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BRAIN DAMAGE (1988)
Written and Directed by Frank Henenlotter
Starring Rick Hearst
There were six years between Henenlotter's first and second features. Now there's been 14 between BASKET CASE 3 and the long-discussed, is-it-ever-coming SICK IN THE HEAD.
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RE-ANIMATOR (1985)
Directed by Stuart Gordon
Written by Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon, and William J. Norris
Starring Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbot
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THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985)
Written and Directed by Dan O'Bannon
Starring Clu Gulager
When this came out I thought it was going to be the biggest rip-off in the world, just from the title alone. But I had more fun watching it than any horror film in a long time, and it was a great new twist on the zombie mythos. By the way, THESE are the guys who invented the running zombies, not me, nor Zack, nor Danny Boyle. Okay?
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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
Directed by Don Siegel
Written by Daniel Mainwaring
Starring Kevin McCarthy
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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Written by W.D. Richter
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NEEDFUL THINGS (1993)
Directed by Fraser Clarke Heston
Written by W.D. Richter
Starring Max von Sydow and Ed Harris
Although I may be alone in this assessment, this, along with THE SHINING, is probably my favorite adaptation of a Stephen King novel (and yes, that's including fucking SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION).
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THE SHINING (1980)
Written and Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Starring Jack Nicholson
I've got a thing for creepy, undead little girls not a sexual thing, but they freak me out thus, the appearance of creepy little girls in both DAWN OF THE DEAD and SLiTHER. THE SHINING and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD provided the creepy little girl template.
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BATTLE ROYALE (2000)
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Screenplay by Kenta Fukasaku
Starring Beat Takeshi
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NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Written by Charles Bennett and Hal E. Chester
Starring Dana Andrews
I don't know which Tourneur film I love best. Probably this one and CAT PEOPLE.
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SUSPIRIA (1977)
Written Directed by Dario Argento
Starring Jessica Harper
I'm not big on Italian horror, but the last fifteen minutes of this movie are some of the scariest and freakiest of all time. The best of a genre that overall makes me a little dizzy.
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BRAINDEAD (1992)
Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair, and Frances Walsh
Starring Timothy Balme
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YEKU SAAT (RED TO KILL) (1992)
Directed by Hin Sing ³Billy² Tang
I saw this movie at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal when I was there with TROMEO & JULIET. Some movies are great, some suck, some are in a whole other category, like this one, that, although a mess on some levels, totally blew my mind. Completely offensive.
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CABIN FEVER (2002)
Directed by Eli Roth
Written by Randy Pearlstein and Eli Roth
Starring Jordan Ladd
Nightbird from The Specials gets a terrible disease and her vagina falls apart. I saw this movie and tried to get Universal to hire Eli to direct DAWN OF THE DEAD, before we had met Zack.
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FRANKENSTEIN - THE LEGACY COLLECTION
Directed by Various
Okay, I think all of these Frankenstein movies are worth having, but, especially, James Whale's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935).
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THE CURIOUS DR. HUMPP (1971)
Written and Directed by Emilio Vieyra
One of the weirdest sexploitation-horror-monster-movie-brains-in-jar hybrids of all time. Not a great movie by any means in fact it's God awful. But, since giving up drugs, I need to trip occasionally, so I stick old Humpp in the VCR.
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CARRIE (1976)
Directed by Brian De Palma
Written by Lawrence D. Cohen
Starring Sissy Spacek
Wait, I changed my mind. This is the best Stephen King adaptation.
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EVIL DEAD II (1987)
Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Sam Raimi and Scott Spiegel
Starring Bruce Campbell
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SAW (2004)
Directed by James Wan
Written by Leigh Whannell
Starring Leigh Whannell and Cary Elwes
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THE BLOB (1958)
Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Written by Kate Phillips and Theodore Simpson and Irving H. Millgate
Starring Steve McQueen
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