‘Re-Animator’ is a prime example of the home video horror boom in action: it’s weird, wild, unpredictable and frequently very silly, the kind of imaginative but slickly constructed offbeat horror film which seems to have gone entirely out of fashion.
Actor-turned-first-time-director John Krasinski shows an almost Hitchcockian command of tension as the slightest creak or spillage can bring slathering hell-beasts raining down from the surrounding countryside. TH, Buy, rent or watch 'The Night of the Hunter', Schools out forever There’s much fun to be had with French filmmaker Clouzot’s boarding school-set puzzler from 1955, a suspenseful comic tease with added frights. | $31.77M, PG-13 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), 16.

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Still, the movies always manage to take it a step further. Director:

This is a film of lurking shadows and creeping gloom, unfashionably cosy in its dedication to the Victorian tradition of ghostly goings-on. But forget all the masked wannabes and knife-wielding suburban loonies that came after, and marvel at the streamlined power of Carpenter’s film: the gliding camera, the concealing shadows, the single-minded presence of masked villain Michael Myers, as perfect a killer as the shark in ‘Jaws’. Stars:
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NF, Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, The pods next doorIt’s time to get beyond the tired political allegories always trotted out for this classic – is it red-baiting or stealth anti-McCarthyism?

In cutting from the clanging bazaars of Iraq to the quiet streets of Georgetown, in blending dizzying dream sequences with starkly believable human drama, Friedkin created a horror movie like no other – both brutal and beautiful, artful and exploitative, exploring wacked-out religious concepts with the clinical precision of an agnostic scientist.

Possessing a truly ghastly appearance, the monstrous Atlantic Goosefish grows up to 6 feet in length and weighs over 70 pounds. The shark looked fake, the effects were terrible.

A group of five college kids are forced to match wits with unwelcoming residents when they fly to a "deserted" island for a party weekend.

A tale of hypnotism, hysteria and multiple murder set in a twisted, folksy German landscape filtered through the disturbed imagination of a madman, its fractured landscapes reflect the shattered psyche of a nation in defeat, but they also prefigure the greater horrors to come. Eugene Byrd, 124 min | Throw in Hammer grandee Christopher Lee and some campy tunes, and the whole thing could have ended up as a kind of ‘Carry On up the Maypole’. For concealed in their tail is a naturally evolved switchblade, which the surgeonfish will not hesitate to use as it “operates” on intruders into its territory. Upstairs, their 101- year-old dad is bedridden and Saul their pyromaniac brother is locked in the attic, while Morgan the mad butler (Karloff) is getting fighting-drunk in the kitchen. Bill Pullman, Ferocious ramming and biting attacks have resulted in drownings, while attempts to capture the fish have proved fatal to anglers who were badly bitten and speared by their fishing rods when the aggressive fish turned to ram them. It’s impressive enough that Lee managed to step out of the shadow of the immortal Bela Lugosi, crafting a Count who was virile, sexy and vicious. |

For this story, a husband (Michael) is possessed, dragged into the mirror and inspired to try and kill his wife (Withers). It’s a complete absence of pleasure that Pasolini provokes in this disturbing portrait of a society gone to the dogs.

3. CC, Vote for the green party It’s gratifying to see both ‘Body Snatchers’ movies on this list: Don Siegel’s 1956 original may be punchier and more bracing, but Philip ‘The Right Stuff’ Kaufman’s ’70s remake is funnier and more self-aware.

It's actually one of the better King movies of the era, successfully translating the book's claustrophobic terror, as ET's Dee Wallace is trapped in her car with a rabid St. Bernard snarling and slobbering outside. ‘Jaws’ broke box office records, but the production had been such a disaster the crew renamed it ‘Flaws’.