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For horror lists I really like Kimberley Lindberg's blog Cinebeats and her 31 Films That Give Me the Willies.
Excellent mix of classic and contemporary, known and obscure but with a distinct, personal taste. I found her blog by searching reviews on early sixties horror (which I'm writing about currently) and she's a huge fan of that era.
Her list was a meme for several hardcore horror film bloggers, which was compiled into this very intriguing master list of scary movies.
Sadly, The Ice Storm is actually a pretty good choice for CT.
I saw that in an air conditioned theatre when it was over 40 degrees outside. Worth the price of admission for that alone.
does a double-take, remembers about Celsius, understands
does a double-take, remembers about Celsius, understands
ohhhhhh.
For horror lists I really like Kimberley Lindberg's blog Cinebeats and her 31 Films That Give Me the Willies.
Deep Red over Suspiria is an interesting choice. I favor Suspiria, but probably because I saw it first at a very impressionable age, and it was far less edited to incoherence than the US version of Deep Red. Ultimately, I think Tenabrae is the best Argento movie, over both (or any), but Deep Red is pretty amazing.
I'm just going to double down on what Frank said. With the exception that I saw Suspiria at the impressionable age of 30-something, and it was still highly effective.
And from Hec's link to Shoot the Projectionist:
17. (TIE) Nosferatu (1922; F.W. Murnau) 413 pts.
The Descent (2005; Neil Marshall) 413 pts.
That's right, Murnau's insanely creepy vision of the vampire--the most animalistic and downright scary bloodsucker ever put on film--received exactly the same amount of votes as that movie about the spelunking girls from a few years ago.
LAME!
I can see it though. It's such an early film, the stylization (not to mention the silence) is really a barrier to getting into the story for a modern audience. I caught a broadcast of Nosferatu on AMC or TCM the other day and dozed off in the middle of it, and horror enthusiasts more biased toward classic films than I aren't exactly thick on the ground.
Filmmaking had advanced enough by the 30s that I don't think the Universal horror greats have the same problem translating for modern tastes. Those movies are still damn entertaining, if you can only find a channel that broadcasts them these days.
I thought The Descent was really great.
Me too. Haven't seen Nosferatu, though.