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Best of horror

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

1247

8.2

8.1

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover

Story: Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Log Lady's rating:

355

8.2

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

Log Lady's rating:

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

467

7.6

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

Director: Benjamin Christensen
Cast: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt

Story: A documentary about the history of witchcraft, told in a variety of styles, from illustrated slideshow to dramatised events of alleged real-life events, right up to the early twentieth century.

Log Lady's rating:

1742

7.9

Nosferatu (1922)

Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach

Story: Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok's castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase an isolated house in Wisbourg.

Log Lady's rating:

1060

7.9

Freaks (1932)

Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates

Story: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

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The Unknown (1927)

Log Lady's rating:

450

7.8

7.4

Vampyr (1932)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz

Story: A traveler obsessed with the supernatural visits an old inn and finds evidence of vampires.

Log Lady's rating:

494

7.4

7.2

Cat People (1942)

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph

Story: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.

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I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Log Lady's rating:

669

8.1

Diabolique (1955)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel

Story: The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.

Log Lady's rating:

542

7.8

7.6

Eyes Without a Face (1962)

Director: Georges Franju
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob

Story: A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane, whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash.

Log Lady's rating:

4208

8.3

8.5

Psycho (1960)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh

Story: A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

Log Lady's rating:

458

7.8

The Innocents (1961)

Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave

Story: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Log Lady's rating:

381

7.4

7.1

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Director: Herk Harvey
Cast: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison

Story: After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Log Lady's rating:

532

7.4

The Haunting (1963)

Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn

Story: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit the house, the mysterious and clairvoyant Theodora and the insecure Eleanor, whose psychic abilities make her feel somehow attuned to whatever spirits inhabit the old mansion.

Log Lady's rating:

1057

7.7

Repulsion (1965)

Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux

Story: Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a young beauty finds herself besieged on all sides by the demons of her past.

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Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

Log Lady's rating:

561

7.8

7.6

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg

Story: An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.

Log Lady's rating:

1775

7.9

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman

Story: A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.

Log Lady's rating:

1936

7.4

7.5

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, Gunnar Hansen

Story: Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.

Log Lady's rating:

2760

7.2

7.4

Carrie (1976)

Log Lady's rating:

1841

7.5

7.4

Eraserhead (1977)

Director: David Lynch
Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates

Story: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Log Lady's rating:

1232

7.8

7.3

Suspiria (1977)

Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé

Story: A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the staff of the school are actually a coven of witches bent on chaos and destruction.

Log Lady's rating:

439

6.9

6.8

The Brood (1979)

Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman

Story: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.

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The Fly (1986)

Log Lady's rating:

6531

8.2

8.4

The Shining (1980)

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers

Story: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Log Lady's rating:

315

6.9

6.7

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Sarah Patterson, David Warner, Graham Cowden

Story: A bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotation. Granny tells her granddaughter Rosaleen strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smoldering look in their eyes.

Log Lady's rating:

816

7.3

7.2

Re-Animator (1985)

Log Lady's rating:

1342

7.5

7.4

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven

Story: A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.

Log Lady's rating:

3225

7.2

7.4

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves

Story: The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiancée and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

Log Lady's rating:

338

8.2

The Kingdom (1994)

Log Lady's rating:

377

6.6

6.9

Ravenous

Log Lady's rating:

527

6.8

6.9

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Director: E. Elias Merhige
Cast: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes

Story: The filming of Nosferatu is hampered by the fact that the star is taking his role far more seriously than what seems humanly possible.

Log Lady's rating:

3918

7.3

7.6

The Others (2001)

Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann

Story: A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.

Log Lady's rating:

2263

7.8

7.9

Let the Right One In (2008)

Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl

Story: Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

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