We’re already in the most wonderful time of the year…for horror geeks, of course!One month left halloweenthe spookiest month where fans of the horror genre take the opportunity to watch scary movies.
In fact, horror movies always win, and there are movies every month of the year. It’s become less popular to accumulate horror films these past few months, and while there’s always more than usual, it’s not always the best.
Take 2023, for example, which is littered with horror movies throughout the year: from Smile arrive No.
You always want to see each other in October horror classic. If you’ve never been encouraged to watch a horror movie, there’s no better time than now.These are the movies you should start watching: they’re safe bets, and some of them best movies in history:
Must-see horror classics before Halloween:
Psycho(1960)
It’s very difficult to choose just one movie. alfred hitchcock, Master of Suspense.But if we stick to the horror genre, the key movies are mental illnessis considered the first film in the horror genre.
mental illness Starring Anthony Perkins like norman bates and Janet Leigh Like Marion Crane, he is a motel owner and she is an ill-fated guest.
Today, the shower scene is widely known as one of the most famous scenes in film history, but even with “spoilers”, viewing it is essential due to Hitchcock’s brilliant stage performance and twists and turns in the script. There are still surprises today.
- where to see mental illness? Can be used as film
The Exorcist(1973)
William Friedkin’s film caused a lot of controversy upon its release, including calls for it to be banned for being too scary and disgusting, and “2001” went down in history as a horror movie. That said, this is a movie that showed that horror movies are more than just B-movies.
yes The first horror film to be nominated for an Oscar (“Psycho” was nominated for best director).Now, thanks to the Warren Files movies, demonic possession movies have become so popular that they’re almost a daily occurrence, but The Exorcist Still absolutely terrifying: Linda Blair was nominated for an Oscar at just 12 years old.
- where to see The Exorcist? Can be used as Prime Video and HBO Max
Jaws(1975)
Do you want to watch a horror movie but can’t stand the scary and dark environment?put shark…You may never go to the beach the same way again. Modern Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster, jawAdapted from Peter Bentley’s novel, it remains one of Spielberg’s best works.
Few monster movies are scarier than this shark: A shark appears rarely and fleetingly, but you never know when it will appear, a nearly invisible menace to a seaside town whose economy would be ruined without tourism. Will perish…even though the threat lurks beneath the water.
- where to see shark?Can be used as High quality video
Halloween Night(1978)
John Carpenter He is one of the masters of horror, science fiction and action films, having created films such as Fog, that thing anyone 1997: New York Rescuethough we’re particularly interested in the Halloween saga that introduced one of the most famous serial killers in film history, Michael Myers…
…and the remarkable “Final Girl,” Jamie Lee Curtis.Although Psycho is considered the first horror film, it halloween night This movie defined the game for dead teen movies and was extremely popular in the 1980s.
- where to see halloween night? Can be used as High quality video
Alien, Passenger Eight (1979)
The Alien saga has gone through a host of directors, including David Fincher and James Cameron, who for many signed on for the saga’s second-best entry, Alien: The Return. It’s a brutal action film, but we can’t forget that this legend was born in the form of a horror film by someone who was virtually unknown at the time. Ridley Scott1979.
Alien, eighth passenger It only has one alien, who appears in a gruesome scene (“The Chest Blaster”) and hides in the Nostromo’s ventilation ducts, hunting down the crew one by one.
A nearly invisible monster that can appear when you least expect it, with a nightmarish design created by HR Giger. A horror classic that still gives people chills today…
- where to see Alien, eighth passenger? Available on Disney+
The Shining(1980)
brilliance is the most famous adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, although it was so different from King’s original work that the author refused to accept the adaptation, and is ultimately remembered as one of Stanley Kubrick’s best films, despite It’s on its premiere.
Jack Torrance (jack nicholson) is a writer who goes with his family to a remote hotel in the mountains to work out his creative block, where he suffers a nervous breakdown. There are no horrors or ghosts here, most scenes take place in daylight or in well-lit and eerily symmetrical corridors… which adds to the overwhelming feeling until the blast ends.
- where to see brilliance? Can be used as HBO Max.
Poltergeist(1982)
The summer of 1982 was the “Spielberg Summer”. ET extraterrestrialfrom Universal Pictures, and poltergeist (Strange phenomenon), produced by MGM and released at about the same time. In fact, although Tobe Hopper, also known as ” Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is a laudable one, with many crediting Spielberg with directing much of the film.
For Spielberg, both as director and producer, you wouldn’t expect a horror movie, and Poltergeist is certainly not the most extreme on the list, and it doesn’t have gore either (it earned a PG rating, equivalent to suitable for ages 13 and up), so it did give many kids nightmares about the haunted house, which seemed to be a rebellion against the owner. they are already here…
where to see poltergeist? Can be used as HBO Max
Scream(1996)
Wes Craven, Creator A Nightmare on Elm Streetwas one of the major teen horror series of the 80s, creating another equally if not more influential saga in the 90s: scream.
scream This is a legend defined by slashers. It didn’t skimp on the horror and brutal murders, but combined them with plenty of satire, playing with the genre’s clichés and creating the perfect blend of mystery, horror, and humor for a saga that remains popular to this day.
where to see scream? Can be used as sky show time
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
This isn’t a groundbreaking film using found footage (Ruggiero De Dodato had already done so almost 20 years earlier with Cannibal Holocaust), but Blair Witch Yes, it’s what popularized it in digital video. Some young men disappear into the forest, and the only thing they find is a digital camera, showing what they experienced from their own perspective, without camera tricks or obvious montage: a real-time nightmare.
A very reasonable premise (some people believe this is a real case, which adds to the incidence), and the limitations of the camera (unseen, but something lurking is hinted at) makes it creepy to watch. .
The Blair Witch Project It could easily be considered a modern classic, a precursor to a subgenre that has been imitated countless times.
- where to see The Blair Witch Project? Can be used as film
Others(2001)
many people think other As Alejandro Amenabar’s best film, even the best Spanish horror film. This modern classic had a brutal international impact and revived the genre during Spain’s glory days.
Paradoxically, it was filmed in English, and Nicole Kidman As the protagonist, after Tom Cruise (starring vanilla sky, American remake open your eyes) produced it.
The Others is set in a post-World War II mansion in Jersey, England, but was actually filmed in Spain Las Fraguas, Cantabria. Kidman plays the mother of a child who is sensitive to light, so the home is always in darkness…
where to see other? usable Prime Video and Disney+.