Not quite my upcoming Top 10 Favorite of All-Time list, but equally interesting. This post is dedicated to what I consider to be my Top 10 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time 🙂 Once again, everyone’s personal favorite list is subjective (mine included), the following choices are my preferences and nobody else’s unless you completely agree with them 🙂 Also, sorry for the decrease in posts recently, I have just been so busy 🙂 Anyway, Happy Halloween to my dear readers and have a Happy Halloween 🙂 Now, without further ado, here are my following Top 10 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time below 🙂
-John Charet’s Top 10 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time-
- Night of the Demon (1957) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur) (United Kingdom)
- The Seventh Victim (1943) (Dir: Mark Robson) (United States)
- Eyes Without a Face (1960) (Dir: Georges Franju) (France/Italy)
- Vampyr (1932) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer) (Germany/France)
- The Fury (1978) (Dir: Brian De Palma) (United States)
- The Black Cat (1934) (Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer) (United States)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) (Dir: David Lynch) (France/United States)
- The Shining (1980) (Dir: Stanley Kubrick) (United States/United Kingdom)
- Midsommar (2019) (Dir: Ari Aster) (United States/Sweden)
- The Devil’s Backbone (2001) (Dir: Guillermo del Toro) (Spain/Mexico)
Click here to view Night of the Demon’s original theatrical trailer, which was released here in the US under the title Curse of the Demon
Click here to view The Seventh Victim’s original theatrical trailer
Click here to view TCM’s Noir Alley host Eddie Mueller’s intro and outro to the film
Click here to view what may or may not be the French trailer for Eyes Without a Face
Click here to view British film critic Mark Kermode’s BFI Player choice of the week commentary
Click here to view Kermode’s Kermode Uncut commentary on it
Click here to view Mark Kermode’s Cult Film Corner entry on it from the mid-1990’s
Click here to view Vampyr’s 90th anniversary trailer
Click here to view Kermode’s BFI Player choice commentary on it
Click here to view The Fury’s original theatrical trailer
Click here to view British director Edgar Wright’s Trailers from Hell commentary on it
Click here to view The Black Cat’s original theatrical trailer
Click here to view Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me’s original theatrical trailer
Click here to view another trailer for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Click here to view The Shining’s original theatrical trailer
Click here to view the 2016 BFI re-release trailer
Click here to view Midsommar’s original theatrical trailer
Click here to view The Devil’s Backbone’s original theatrical trailer
Click here to view Kermode’s BFI Player choice of the week commentary on it
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Nice list. I recently watched Eyes Without a Face again. Awesome film.
Cheers.
Good choices, John. Great to see Night Of The Demon featured. I might add ‘Nosferatu’ (1922) as Murnau’s film is still very effective 100 years later.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thank you Pete 🙂 Did you have a Happy Halloween? 🙂 I love F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu as well 🙂 Anyway, thanks for dropping by 🙂
Welcome back Pam – did you have a Happy Halloween? 🙂 I too love Eyes Without a Face 🙂 Anyway, thanks for dropping by 🙂
I did have a happy Halloween. Nothing major. We just stayed in, had a few trick or treaters. Hope you had a good one, too.
I don’t celebrate Halloween, John. Just a normal Monday evening in our house. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
Love your list! Mostly because I’ve only seen two of them (Shining and The Fury) and haven’t heard of the rest. Well, I remember hearing about the Twin Peaks movie. Don’t know how we missed Guillermo’s Devil’s Backbone. He’s one of my favorite directors. I looked up Midsommer and am intrigued. Thanks for sharing, and now I have viewing tips!
Thank you for the kind words Stacey 🙂 It was a hard list to compile especially when one is limited to 10 choices 🙂 I think If I had an 11th choice, I would have put Videodrome in there – I am a huge David Cronenberg fan 🙂 Glad to see someone else on here who has seen The Fury – they shot that in the home state I live in (Illinois in this case) 🙂 Also, who can forget that final scene? 🙂 I am also a huge David Lynch, but you probably knew that already 🙂 What I really loved about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is how far Lynch went with it. The film is basically a prequel to the original television series and it depicts the last days of Laura Palmer. What I really loved about it is that it makes you look at the television series in a whole new light. She is depicted in the film as a complex and tragic character. As a result, Dale Cooper’s investigation of her demise is given meaning instead of her serving as just another statistic. I also have a crush on the actress who played Laura Palmer, which was Sheryl Lee in this case 🙂 As for Midsommar, please do check that out and The Devil’s Backbone 🙂
Great list, lots of diversity, and each influential in their own way. I was hoping The Thing or Halloween might sneak on to the list!
Sorry for the late response 🙂 Thank you for the kind words and I too wished that I could have included The Thing and Halloween on there, but I had to limit it to ten – that is why I love doing my favorite ones all together 🙂 I might update it in the future and have Videodrome replace The Shining 🙂 I love them all though 🙂 Anyway, keep up the great work as always 🙂