Not my opinion. Fact. The Best. THE BEST. You can’t argue with science:
1. Haute Tension, 2003
This is why you shouldn’t repress your feelings.
2. Pan’s Labyrinth, 2006
Somebody said Guillermo Del Toro’s gorgeous, heartbreaking tale of cold realities, and the lengths an imaginative young girl goes to in order to escape them, isn’t a horror film. Somebody is thinking way too literally.
3. Let The Right One In, 2008
Have you met ANYONE yet who’s seen it, and wasn’t completely floored? Apparently, there’s an American remake in the works. Obviously, it’s going to suck donkey bladder.
4. Otis, 2008
Horror-comedy actually done right, which is to say with a mix of wit both super-broad and bone dry.
5. The Descent, 2005
Yeah, they should’ve gone with Marshall’s clearer downer ending, but still, the tension and the fight scenes are aces.
6. The Ring, 2002
The ONLY PG-13 horror film worth a damn so far. (I haven’t seen Drag Me to Hell yet. Fingees crossed.)
7. Dark Water (Honoguarai mizu no soko kara), 2002
The remake, featuring Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth and Pete “Kobayashi” Postlethwaite, isn’t bad, but it can’t touch the climax of the original.
8. Slither, 2006
Another example of how deft writing, acting and direction can produce something that rides the line between horror and comedy, and not come off as obvious, self-conscious suckage.
9. The Orphanage, 2007
Producer Del Toro’s influential fingerprints are all over director Juan Antonio Bayona’s heart-wrencher, and that’s totally fine.
10. Coraline, 2009
Not a horror movie? What? Sure it is – it’s a horror movie for kids. Some of the best fairy tales are. Unnerving and absolutely stunning.
Looking forward to Pontypool and Raimi’s Return more than anything else right now.
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Now I want to watch every one of these again and soon!