Showing posts with label Genre: horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genre: horror. Show all posts

The Awakening (2011)

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Rebecca Hall stars as Florence Cathcart, a professional debunker of supernatural phenomena, who is sent to a school where spooky goings on h...

Magic (1978)

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Anthony Hopkins is at his absolute best in this riveting drama about a ventriloquist, Charles “Corky” Withers, whose dummy (“Fats”) appears ...

The Thing (1982)

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Directed by John Carpenter, this is an intriguing mixture of horror, sci-fi and psychological drama. Kurt Russell stars as one of a group of...

Dead of Night (1945)

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Extremely unusual Ealing Studios curio. It features a series of short stories framed within one wider narrative. Each of these tales deals w...

The Shining (1980)

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Stanley Kubrick's terrifying, mesmerising classic both adapts and adds to the Stephen King horror novel. Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson) ...

Christine (1983)

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John Carpenter's superb adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel about a haunted car. It also functions as a teen drama. It's sc...

The Wolfman (2010)

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1891. A mysterious attack takes place in the woods... This is a less-than-inspired retelling of the standard werewolf myth starring Anthony ...

Gremlins (1984)

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Comedy-horror.  A boy is given a small, furry creature for Christmas. But his new pet spawns further little cuties that become a lot less ap...

Apollo 18 (2011)

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“Found footage” horror sci-fi directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego.  Three astronauts are sent on a secret Apollo mission, and the two men that...

The Others (2001)

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Deeply creepy supernatural thriller.  Nicole Kidman is a mother of two children living in Jersey in 1945. The family begin to hear strange ...

Misery (1990)

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Brilliant adaptation of the Stephen King novel.  A writer ( James Caan ) crashes his car in a snowstorm and is rescued by his “number-one f...

It Follows (2014)

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Rotten Tomatoes: “After carefree teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), for the first time, she learn...

Morgan (2016)

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Grisly sci-fi/horror drama directed by Ridley Scott ’s son Luke.  A “risk-management specialist” (Kate Mara) is sent to a scientific facilit...

What Lies Beneath (2000)

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Claire Spencer ( Michelle Pfeiffer ) and her husband Norman ( Harrison Ford ) appear to have an ideal marriage and an ideal home. But the s...

Jaws (1975)

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I’ve seen this gem several times now and never tire of it. Steven Spielberg lost his way in later years, but with this film and Duel (197...

Don't Look Now (1973)

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Based on the story by Daphne du Maurier, Nicolas Roeg’s psychological thriller verges on horror and is genuinely terrifying.  Donald ...

Alien Covenant (2017)

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Ridley Scott ’s follow-up to Prometheus (the second in the Alien prequel saga) is an all-out space-action-horror affair. Michael Fassbend...

Prometheus (2012)

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Ridley Scott ’s prequel to his Alien series is a philosophical sci-fi/horror hybrid. It looked beautiful at the cinema – the storm rollin...

Aliens (1986)

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Ridley Scott ’s original 1979 Alien film managed to be amazingly subtle for a space-monster horror film. It was built on excellent pacing,...