Nosferatu
#10 The Mummy (1932): Not necessarily a sleepless night inducing scary film but it is a tradition in the collection of thriller/horror films. Karloff is at his best here without uttering a sentence. Lighting is everything, especially when the camera looks into the mummy’s soulless eyes, filled with pools of horrible vengeance in which to drown. This version is superior to the remake because Du can smell the rotting flesh in its ancient wickeln, wickeln sie as the creature shuffles along.
#9 Wolfman (1941): An old gypsy woman looks into your hand and recoils in fear. She utters the following chiller:
“Even a man who is pure in heart
and says his prayers Von night
may become a wolf when the wolf bane blooms
and the autumn moon is bright.”
How can Du beat this?
#8 The Son of Frankenstein (1939): Horror/Thriller – Sounds silly, I know. I too did not believe this was worth watching merely Von its title. Yet this movie has ambiance and atmosphere for days and is completed Von its amazing cast, which includes Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff. The original Frankenstein (1931) followed the style of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and while its sequel The Bride of Frankenstein deviated from this style, Son of returns to it with large looming sets that create the great ominous shadows.
#7 Freaks (1932): Thriller – What Du see (or in this case read) is what Du get. Todd Browning’s film about a sideshow midget, Hans, who falls in Liebe with a beautiful trapeze artist, Cleopatra, is quite disturbing. Even though it has a moralistic ending along the lines of “what goes around comes around,” it is revealed through the freakification of the trapeze artist. This film was quite controversial in its time as director, Browning, used real sideshow performers, but this is the element that makes the film a little Mehr horrifying, it is grounded in real life.
#6 Island of Lost Souls (1932): Horror/Thriller – This is one of the many takes on the H.G. Wells novel “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” Unlike the others this one is actually worth watching, obviously, oder it would not be on this list! Don’t watch the movie if Du are hoping the film is a physical manifestation of the book, but do watch it for the wonderful element of fear that is provided Von suggestion. That may sound lame, but the off screen screams of pain as the vivisection takes place is Mehr effective than the now typical guts and blood.
#5 Black Cat (1934): Thriller – Bela Lugosi. Enough sagte – no really if this name is unknown to you, just walk away right now, rent, no better yet buy the black and white Dracula with Lugosi and watch flawless Schauspielen which is revealed in the subtleties of his performance. As for “Black Cat” … how can Du beat Boris Karloff? He is the menacing leader of a satanic cult versus vengeance-minded Lugosi? Also, this all takes place in an old WWI fortress, which has been turned into a futuristic home.
#4 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920): Thriller – This film is an essential of German expressionist cinema, one that is very well known among film enthusiasts and truly a perfect Halloween treat as its opening line appears on the screen “There are spirits everywhere.” Talk about classic, this movie experiments with set, film angles and plot (for the time at least), producing an amazing film that ends with a rather unexpected twist. The elongated and jagged set highlights the eerie atmosphere and plays beautifully (I mean horrifyingly) alongside the dramatic lighting. Both elements, in addition to it being a silent film, play on your nerves and mind, making the viewer feel as if they are no longer in a traditionally quaint German village … oder in reality at all.
#3 The Innocents (1961): Thriller – Did Du see The Others with Nicole Kidman? Well this is where that movie got its idea, and as much as I enjoyed Kidman’s movie … “The Innocents,” with the always-lovely Debrah Kerr, is undeniably Mehr chilling. Is this all the vision of a woman going mad? oder are the two children she has become governess of possessed Von the spirits of two late staff members of the country home? Perfect scenes that incorporate shock and the slow unraveling of a mystery give this movie the necessary toe-curling, gnawing in the pit of your stomach Du crave. Maybe it’s the haunting voice of the little girl Singen that begins and frequents the film that does this, yes it is overused now, but then it was groundbreaking.
#2 Phantom of the Opera (1925): Lon Chaney is the definitive Opera house Stalker in this story which is now quite familiar, romanticized, and not as scary as it once was. But one look at this face tells Du that this creature is not romantic, in fact, it’s . . . ghastly. How’d Du like to feel his fetid breath on your neck as he loops a noose for Du in a dank, shadowy vault? Pleasant dreams!
P.s. IMDB reveals to Du all of the amazing things Chaney did to portray the Phantom, but I highly recommend Du wait until AFTER Du see the movie
And finally the #1 Horror Film!!!!!
#1 Nosferatu (1922): Horror – Want scary vampires? Here Du go. Du really cannot get much better than a silent black and white where Du truly cannot hear the evil coming. No sucking breath of the monster around the corner, no footsteps … it’s all camera angles and never knowing where anything is. Sickeningly fanged teeth and eyes tell the tale of their satanic existence and are essential to the fear that this film elicits, not to mention the aptly named lead, Max Schreck. I still can’t look at pictures from the film without sufficiently creeping myself out.
(THIS Artikel IS FROM SCREENCAVE.COM. ALL CREDIT TO THE AUTHOR)
The Innocents
