dfiant Wrote:Incubus (1982), Poltergeist (1982) and The Exorcist (1973)
Good choices, but there are several others woth mentioning:
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Rosemary's Baby- this is my favorite movie of all-time, I'm not quite sure why, my mother says that as a kid I used to watch this movie with a smile while everyone else shivered.
I just love the scary atmosphere Polanski creates. Mia Farrow was excellent (and deserved an oscar), Ruth Gordon was terrific too and actually won an Oscar. I can't say enough good things about this movie.
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Halloween (the original) probably one of the best independent movies of all time. A critic once said "you feel this movie more than see it". It made Jamie-Lee Curtis the original "Scream Queen".
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An American Werewolf in London my favorite werewolf movie ever. James Naughton is so good. The transformation scenes by the inimitable Rick Baker have yet to be topped!
-I have a soft spot for all "Hammer Horror" films, especially those starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. The
Dracula films with Christopher Lee as Dracula are my favorites.
Dracula or
The Horror of Dracula as it's known in the U.S. is my favorite film adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and it has many sequels.
Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein (the first name here changed to Henry) in
The Curse of Frankenstein and its sequels are also good.
It's such a pity few people know about Hammer Horror films in the U.S. :frown:
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Nosferatu: The Vampyre is an excellent Dracula film too and one of my favorite silent films, it manages to bee creepy and silent! It doesn't strictly count as a Dracula film because Florence Stoker (Bram's Widow) was still alive and refused to allow her late husband's novel to be filmed by F.W Murnau, the director, so the main character is called Count Orlok and there are some plot changes. Max Schreck is the most visually frightening vampire ever!
-Universal's Val Lewton produced horror films such as
The Cat People and
I Walked with a Zombie are also excellent.
Finally:
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Basket Case and it's two inferior sequels are hilarious horror movies