![]() | Carnival of Souls
Buy used from: $0.58 Great story with quick glimpses of bizarre dead man that are effective in creating sence of terror and madness. Fantastic editing techniques and cinematography. Eerie film about being alone.
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![]() | I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher
Buy used from: $5.63 Val Lewton is little known today, but he was a great producer who created a number of fantastic films. I Walked with a Zombie is a tale of voodoo and zombies set against a backdrop of a dysfunctional family with terrible secrets in the closet--jelousy, murder, slavery--with a tremendous voodoo dance scene at the end. The Body Snatcher is great too, dark and sinister, Karloff is show stopping.
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![]() | An American Werewolf in London
Buy used from: $4.69 The ultimate werewolf flick, not only is the lycanthrope costume well done and frightening, but this movie is also sprinkled with flecks of humor and some great settings. Watch out for the Nazi-demons, best scene of the film!
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![]() | Last Man on Earth
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $0.85 Price is a classic actor and cripples anything Will Smith has done (remake I Am Legend). Fantastic movie about earths last surviver beseiged by vampires when the sun goes down. Your sence of isolation and helplessness will soar in this one.
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![]() | Arsenic and Old Lace
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.50 One of the best cast films of all time, this comedy relies greatly on the element of horror to both make you laugh and cause your skin to crawl. Grant discovers his sweet aunties have been murdering old men and burying them in the basement! The Johnathan Brewster character is a villian to the extreme! A solid cast.
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![]() | The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.44 Everyone has seen this, but its the best in the catagory. Both visual and audio elements are exploited to the max to create an atmosphere of the bizarre. Some deep ideas about personal spiritual dillema.
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![]() | Psycho (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $8.50 Perkins steals this film with his psychotic portrayal of Bates. Cinematography is stunning, as well as psychological portraits of characters. Hitchcock was a master of symbolism, and there are a number of scenes that you'll never forget.
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![]() | Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $14.07 Its not gory, and a bit slow, but it is the classic Dracula. Bela's portrayal of the count stands to this day as the common perception of what Dracula looks and acts like. Worth it just for Legosi.
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![]() | Nosferatu
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.44 The original vampire flick, its a touch better than Dracula, and Schreck's Count Orlo is quite frightening. Interesting vampire. Personally, I like the sets better too. The castle and shots of the surrounding forest really make it known that this is an evil, isolating place.
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![]() | The 'Burbs
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.85 Comedy, true, but a great horror film, too. That Klopek family is creepy to the bone and its setting in America suburbia brings it home for a lot of folks. Dern steals the movie as crazy vet, as well as Gibson as the Doctor Klopek.
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![]() | The People Under The Stairs
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.20 Underrated in my opinion. Craven scored in every catagory. Its scary, tense, and filled with social-political commentary (its essencially about Reagan and his crew, and what's scarier than that!).
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![]() | Martin
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.68 Innovative, about a boy who thinks he's a vampire. No easy way to look at this film--pseudo-vampirism a parallel to americas urban decline of the 1970's for sure, but how you read into all the various symbolic elements will be up to the individual. Truelly surprising end!
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![]() | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2-Disc Ultimate Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.53 A terrifing classic which oozes creepiness. Great setting and imagery, the murdering family was cast perfectly. A film about vegetarianism being that its BBQ is made from people slaughtered in cattle-like fashion.
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![]() | House On Haunted Hill + Horror Hotel
Buy used from: $1.94 Haunted Hill is superbly led by Vincent Price. A great ghost film, Castles use of the house is grade A in building parranormal suspence. Story of 7 people locked for a night in allegedly haunted house creates grand feelings of isolation and terror. Horror Hotel is about a small New England town whose inhabitants practice the dark arts of satanic ritual and sacrifice.
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![]() | 28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.48 This movie blew me away when I saw it. A real feeling of fear in this one. Great twist too, and good commentary about authority and mans state of nature.
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![]() | The Crazies
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $10.98 Townspeople are infected by government experiment. Once infected they wig-out and turn into crazy murderers. Cool movie all around with typical Romero gore.
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![]() | The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $13.80 A must have classic. Kubrick always delivers, but Nicholson plays the part of a madman falling down the road of violence and alcohol perfectly. Exploits the 2 keys to good horror--isolation and helplessness.
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![]() | Plan 9 from Outer Space
Buy used from: $2.70 Without Wood, we would not have a lot great film makers who decided to follow suit and make movies on small budgets with few extravegant perks. A bad film, its fun to watch and in all truth, with a little imagination, its really not bad.
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![]() | Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Manos, the Hands of Fate
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $6.72 I prefer it with the robots. A great laugh, another cheaply produced film that does in fact have some pretty effective moments of horror. Unforgetable.
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![]() | The Mummy (Special Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $6.63 Its been a long time since i've seen it, and honestly, I can't remember why I liked it, but I know I did. I'll have to catch it again.
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![]() | Spider Baby (Directors cut)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $9.54 Weird! Family is cursed by disease which adults revert back to infantile mental state, then murder people as part of their play games. Seduction scene both alluring and chilling. Great use of setting.
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![]() | The Wicker Man (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $44.79 A missing girl, a dedicated cop, an isolated island in Scotland, and a people practicing pagan rites sets the scene for this one. A gem. Ending will leave you shocked for quite a while.
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![]() | Homicidal
Buy used from: $7.33 Not the best film made, but pretty cool with a few tense scenes. Surprise ending not entirely a surprise, but its well worth seeing. Explores some ideas of identity, but plays off Psycho too much.
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![]() | The Hills Have Eyes
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.22 Hmm...this is probally the last place in the world you want to find yourself, because if you are, then you'll be at the mercy of this deranged family of cannibals. Talk about having to fight for your life!
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![]() | Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $17.49 Wicked movie about man who murders in a most peculiar fashion which allows him to record his victums final moments of fear. A lost treasure of film.
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![]() | The Legend of Hell House
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.81 A bit silly here and there, but a good movie with great atmosphere. Four people take over a haunted house in order to drive off its many demons, but there is a twist at the end. Great dialoge from wife possessed by orgy driven demon!
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![]() | Young Frankenstein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.99 A true classic, better than any other frankenstein movie out there. Some memorable lines from a great cast--Boyle is perfect monster.
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![]() | The Fall of the House of Usher
Buy used from: $2.52 Cool movie based on Poe. Very well shot, its not for everybody, just fans of old film.
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![]() | Night of the Living Dead
Buy used from: $5.85 The one that started it all--low budget, small cast, creepy zombies. what more could you want?
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![]() | The Devil & Daniel Webster - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $24.39 Man sells his soul to the devil, who's minion on earth is played by the ever so hot Simon Simon.
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![]() | Two Thousand Maniacs
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.77 Not entirely horror, this is a really cool movie about hillbillies who capture and mutilate northerners to celebrate their centenial.
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