Instead of spouting off what I in person think is the pretty horror movie to ever talk pink blood on the CRT screen , I reached out to various moving picture nerds , filmophiles , and io9 staffers , and cribbed the words of a few famous critic — because horror is really at its best when you ’re sharing it with others .
This vampire westerly meat around a pack of wild , stray vampires and the modest - town farm boy they ’ve lately snatch .
The female person - led film focus on a potent gang of spelunkers and adventure junkies , who descend into an uncharted , Appalachian spelunk only to discover horror . Director Neil Marshall used the space ( and sometimes miss thereof ) to his advantage , trammel the audience in their own claustrophobic terror . But there ’s also no want of expansive , blood - tinged cave injection that hit you with the type of apprehension one would face while looking out into hell itself . A beautiful hell .
“ The Descent work ( and play ) not only with picture show imaging , but with the stuff of myth and dreams as well . It evokes hellish visions , from famous picture ( Goya ’s Black Paintings , Fuseli’sThe Nightmare ) to mediaeval gargoyle and Dore ’s engraving for Dante ’s Inferno . These almost subliminal reference aid labor The Descent , and give it a sinewy mythologic muscularity . It dig when and how to draw upon these images to create just the veracious tone of voice of hallucinatory fear , and gear up it reverberating in your head . The movie ’s not pretentious or derivative , it ’s just uncanny about have sex what to borrow and how to use it . ” – Roger Ebert
If you have n’t seen this picture , please do so , because even the succinct summary of this bonkers horror picture show is wonderful and like no other : “ Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with roue money obtained from shipwrecked leper but no one consider it . On the evening of the town ’s centennial many plan to attend the celebrations , including the murdered leper . ” The lepers do BACK !
“ It ’s funny ; John Carpenter has become a “ Master of Horror ” primarily through films with claustrophobic elements : people trap in an Arctic Qaeda or an erstwhile church service , Laurie Strode hiding from Michael Myers in progressively small spaces , etc . – but one of the most striking shots in his career is also peradventure one of his most wide undefendable . It ’s from his 1980 religious cult fave The Fog , and it ’s nothing more than a revulsion - free ( and daytime ! ) shooting of Adrienne Barbeau take the air down the interminable path to the lighthouse where she works , with the sparkling Pacific Ocean fill up his wonted widescreen frame . There ’s something so gorgeous and yet ominous about the prototype that it remain one of my favorite moments in the picture and his career as a whole ; it ’s almost deserving watching the film for no other reason than to appreciate it . ” — Brian CollinsBadAss Digest writer , and a repugnance movie ( a solar day ) watcher .
The Hunger (1983)
Catherine Deneuve , David Bowie , and Susan Sarandon are all in a vampire motion-picture show — but it ’s really so much more than that .
“ The scuttle credit to The Hunger , ostensibly a music video for Bauhaus ’ “ Bela Lugosi ’s Dead , ” is the finest matter Tony Scott ever did . ( Sorry Maverick and Goose , go huckster your Cold War paranoia elsewhere ! ) The color impregnation , start cuts and loping , demonic bass against that aspersion guitar scratch – the form of music that only got played on the far left of your FM telephone dial – was one hell of a way to commence a movie . That this opening scene , which is schizophrenically intercut with the “ beginning of the literal movie , ” grow as much VHS rewind play as the film ’s afterwards Deneuve - Sarandon lovemaking says quite a snatch . ” — Jordan Hoffman , Critic for The Guardian & New York Daily News .
Guillermo del Toro sets up a spectre story from the POV of a young male child pin down in a obsessed orphanhood .
Possibly one of the peachy “ He ’s right behind you ! ” household encroachment horror flicks .
“ The ocular charm of Bryan Bertino ’s The Strangers , which blow a mostly unappealing color pallette and a setting so circumscribed as to be choking , is all in the framing , which is impeccable and makes for a serial of scenes so well made that they ’d make stills suitable for literal framing , as long as you like portrayal of murderers and dupe embellish your walls , and who am I to judge?The first appearance of the picture ’s master mask killerwas foretold throughout the film ’s marketing , come along in both both posters and trailer , but that does n’t dilute its terrifying power when it at long last occur in the celluloid . Suddenly , a boring suburban tableau is transmute into a crackling vista of powerful , terrible beauty , sharply compose and filled with horrific theory . ” — Kate ErblandEntertainment diary keeper
Let The Right One In (2008)
The original , not the remake ( which is also quite beautiful in its own right hand ) rework the classic lamia story with child .
“ Let the Right One In realize all other horror movies await like a joke . The perpetual transgression of hollywood to heavy hand everything made these days just produces an attack of middling film . What people forget is that a horror movie is made by showing the hearing as little as potential , and the entirety of permit The Right One In is just that . The commencement of the movie found an older man off someone and perform a ritual - like function on the drained body when a poodle find him and begin bark loudly . The whole scene is shot on a retentive lens system in one shot and is blocked like a scene on the point . It plays out in three colour amidst the snow address Mrs. Henry Wood . The trees are a light chassis coloring John Brown and the basis is white . The thespian in the scene are wear upon flesh coloured clothing , and the dog that put down is a white poodle dog . The manslayer bear a crimson scarf and the dupe bleed crimson blood . The aspect utilize one light to illustrate the location and action occurring . What makes the moving picture awe-inspiring is it ’s minimal storytelling- but what makes the movie beautiful is it rival minimal art in motion-picture photography . ” – Nicholas StangoAssociate Master of Video at Gawker Media
Black Narcissus (1947)
Tarsem Singh ’s trip into the mind of a serial killer took the dreamscape to the next point . There ’s yet to be a flick to top this film ’s ocular splendour — and flippant disregard for physics , sound , lifespan , and world because you ’re inside someone ’s mind . And to top it all off , it ’s stunning . Who knew the inside of a character so foul could be so horrifically terrific ? But it is — The Cell catapult the hearing inside the brain of a giant … and you kind of desire to bide . Especially when the villain descends his monumental steps with a mantle ( attached to his hide ) that also drapes across the paries of his opulent throne way .
“ John Carpenter ’s 1978 slasher is prototypal , though its aesthetics remain unmatchable . In a subgenere know for its crassitude , Halloween remains a paragon of taste . refined in composing and camerawork , Halloween ’s expression render lurid , b - movie cloth into art . It makes watching nitwitted murder make sense , starting from its blindsiding first scene , in whichwe follow young Michael Myers ’s first slaying through the eye pickle of his Halloween mask . ” — Rich JuzwiakSenior Writer Gawker
Gozu (2003)
What start off as a Yakuza reach story turn into something much , much darker .
Byzantium (2012)
Two distaff vampires are on the run from an immortal boys ’ club . Together they take resort in a desolate , off - season beach recourse townspeople and provender . Neil Jordan ’s blue - grey and red hues really bestow out Moira Buffini ’s words ( Buffini adjust her fun for the celluloid ) . The return of these two gorgeous colors not only looks marvellous ; it also really helps play into the life - versus - undead - lifetime conflict the two mains are facing , from Saoirse Ronan ’s Red Riding Hood look to her blood - streak boldness in an lift . But my favorite spectacle of color hit early on in the celluloid when the two women tip through kip blasphemous shekels , trying to retrieve a young position to cover out . It ’s just shockingly gorgeous .
Ringu (1998)
Before there was the American Ring , there was Ringu , the tale of the VHS tape that was also a murderer . It was great , and it was chilling , and it touch off a whole mess of imitator US films .
The Shining (1980)
A flick so beautiful , not even Stephen King ( the author of the film ’s inspiration who splendidly abominate Stanley Kubrick ’s adaptation ) could deny its mouth - drip spectacle of symmetry and vividness . Quoted in Stanley Kubrick , a Biography ( by Vincent LoBrutto ) King said :
“ There ’s a lot to care about it . But it ’s a slap-up big beautiful Cadillac with no motor inside . you may sit in it , and you may enjoy the look of the leather upholstery – the only thing you ca n’t do is drive it anywhere . So I would do everything unlike . ”
Not of necessity a compliment , but we ’ve all seen this film . It ’s gorgeous . And not even King could side step that .
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