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This story originally ran in 2018 and is being republished for Halloween.
For nearly as long as there have been movies, there have been horror movies.
But theyre all worth revisiting this Halloween season.
Fortunately, a few copies of the film survived.
Browning was fresh off of the success ofDraculawhen he madeFreaks.
It continues to serve as one of the most effective scares in horror history.
The women are strong-willed, mouthy, and uncharacteristically bold in this pulp staple.
Even today, the cold, dead eyes of the sinister dummy serve as nightmare fuel.
Having that isolated moment of Technicolor heightens the horror of seeing Dorians painting age while he himself remains youthful.
However,The Night of the Hunteris compelling, visually stimulating, and downright thrilling.
With sex appeal, Bava builds a horrific landscape enhanced with slick camera work and intense black-and-white contrasts.
Psycho(1960)
Yes, its most influential horror film of all time.
But it bears repeating: Alfred HitchcocksPsychowas a true game-changer in horror cinema.
Its also one of the earliest and best examples of the creepy children subgenre.
The first of his Apartment Trilogy,Repulsionis a psychological torture chamber of hallucinatory exploration.
Every minute of this film is drenched in ominous dread, frequently crossing into the supernatural.
It examines the psychological breakdown of men completely destroyed by war under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs.
