Thursday, October 28, 2004

Not another scary movie (list)

Have I mentioned that I enjoy lists? Just in time for Halloween, film critic Leonard Heldreth (co-editor of The Blood is Life: Vampires in Literature) has released his list of "15 films guaranteed to bring the chill of Devil’s Night into your living room." Heldreth cautions that these rankings are rough, not definitive:
  1. Psycho (1960)
  2. The Innocents (1961)
  3. The Haunting (1963)
  4. The Others (2001)
  5. The Changeling (1979)
  6. Carrie (1976)
  7. Dead Ringers (1988)
  8. Halloween (1978)
  9. Horror of Dracula (1958)
  10. Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  11. American Werewolf in London (1981)
  12. The Exorcist (1973)
  13. Freaks (1932)
  14. Night of the Hunter (1955)
  15. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Heldreth also recommends four non-English language films (though I'm not sure why they're segregated from the main list): Eyes Without A Face (1960); The Devil's Backbone (2001); Onibaba (1964); and Diabolique (1955).