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F.W. Murnau – Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Quote: Based illegally on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, F. W. Murnau’s film is undeniably the best and probably the most faithful of the myriad of films based on the novel. Naively, the film’s producers...
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Harry Kümel – Malpertuis [Extras] (1971)
Quote: This film has been more talked about than seen since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972, when it was shown in a hastily shortened English-language version which distributors...
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Takashi Miike –Ôdishon AKA Audition [+Commentary] (1999)
Quote: Audition is Takashi Miike’s neo-Darwinian exercise in terror, playing out like a comfy companion piece to Shall We Dance? before evolving into a torturous freakshow not unlike Baise-moi. Miike...
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James Quinn – Flesh of the Void (2017)
Flesh of the Void is a terribly disturbing experimental horror film about what it could feel like if death truly were the most horrible thing one could ever experience. It is intended as a trip...
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Umit Unal – Ses AKA The Voice (2010)
Derya (Selma Ergeç) works in a bank’s call center to support her elderly mother. One day her life is suddenly turned upside down as she begins to hear a strange voice whispering to her. The source of...
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Claire Denis – Trouble Every Day (2001)
Quote: Trouble Every Day is a 2001 French erotic horror film directed by Claire Denis and written by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau. It stars Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle and Alex Descas....
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Brian De Palma – The Fury (1978)
Summary: Loosely adapted by John Farris from his 1977 novel, the film opens on an Israeli beach, where retiring “government agent” Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) is enjoying an afternoon with son Robin...
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David Lynch – Eraserhead (1977)
Quote: Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable,...
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William Castle – The Tingler (1959)
IMDB: Dr. Warren Chapin is a pathologist who regularly conducts autopsies on executed prisoners at the State prison. He has a theory that fear is the result of a creature that inhabits all of us. His...
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Roy Ward Baker –— And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Summary: England 1795: the young Catherine just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes victim of an old curse that lays on the family. In her wedding night she’s raped by a...
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Janusz Majewski – Lokis aka The Bear (1970)
Synopsis: Lokis is a dark Gothic romance, a faithful (though expanded) adaptation of Prosper Merimee’s famous story, and the creme de la creme of the small horror niche dealing with the Eastern...
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Stanley Kubrick – The Shining [+Extras] (1980)
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” – or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick’s eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son...
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Pierre Chenal – La foire aux chimères aka Carnival of Illusions (1946)
A word from an expert on the area: dbmonteil of the IMDb: “La Foire aux chimères” is a jewel, a sparkling diamond. It would deserve one hundred comments, and that would not be enough. Pierre Chenal...
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Carl Boese & Paul Wegener – Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam aka The Golem:...
Classic Horror Review : Emanating from Jewish folklore, the legend of the “golem” has transfixed audiences for centuries. Although when used pejoratively the word “golem” describes a moronic person...
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Jennifer Kent – The Babadook (2014)
THE BABADOOK was the breakout horror hit of Sundance 2014, and has been terrorising audiences around the world ever since. This creepy, expertly crafted feature has been a critical and audience scary...
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Ferdinand Diehl – Die Sieben Raben AKA The Seven Ravens (1937)
A peasant father sends his seven sons to fetch water for their sickly young sister but when he curses them for not returning soon enough, they turn into ravens and disappear. Many years later when the...
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Ewald Andre Dupont – The Neanderthal Man (1953)
Wheeler, a tourist-hunter in the California High Sierras, is not believed by the patrons of Webb’s Cafe when he claims to have run across a live tiger with tusks. Among the scoffers is game-warden...
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George Waggner – The Climax (1944)
In old Vienna, Count Seebruck (Thomas Gomez) is the impresario for the Royal Theatre. His biggest headache is his soprano diva, Jarmila (Jane Farrar). That’s why he’s more than willing to listen his...
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Terence Fisher – The Brides of Dracula (1960)
The vampire Baron Meinster (David Peel) terrorizes a girl’s academy, and it’s up to Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) to stop him… Following the phenomenal success of their 1958 version of Dracula...
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D.W. Griffith – Edgar Allan Poe (1909)
Quote: The life of Poe (Herbert Yost) shows the author suffering as the woman he loves is slowly dying. Poe goes out to try selling his stories. 76MB | 7mn 6s | 576×432 | avi...
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