61 thoughts on “John Charet’s Official Top 10 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time”

1. The most intriguing title from you list for me is The Seventh victim, which I found to be so realistic that it actually scared me. I would like to see the original Midsommer before including the remake as a favorite, although i think that remake was the best horror film of the last several years, with the colour out of space a close second. I find it hard to narrow down a best ten, as there is such variety in horror films that i would have to break them down into seperate categories, and my personal favorites are in large part subjective, as their effect on an individual often outweighs their aesthetic value. nonetheless, here are the ten films that scared me the most. The first and last titles on my list scared me because I was just a child. The Tingler when the film changed from black and white to color,

   1. Mask of the Devil
   2. Inferno
   3. Repulsion
   4. Salo
   5. The Colour Out of Space
   6. Red Cherry
   7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
   8. Hellraiser
   9. Baskin
   10. The Tingler

2. An interesting list, John. I have to disagree about Midsommar, which I found to be terrbily derivative, transparent, and far too long.

   I will give you a top 3 for me. ‘Martyrs’ (2008 original), ‘Ringu’ (1998 original) and ‘Hellraiser’ (1987). Best wishes, Pete.

3. You dont consider Day of Wrath a horror film? Also Leaves from Satan’s Book is more fantasy than horror. but does touch on some of the horror tropes. For me, Performance is, in every respect, more of a horror film than Dont Look Now. In fact, the more I think about it, I am replacing Red Cherry, a horrifying if not an actual horror film, with it. While The Shining is the best horror films of its era, I find Eyes Wide Shut more frightening,

4. Interesting choices you have as well Pete 🙂 I love all three of your choices and you will love the blog entry I will do next week regarding my top 100 favorite horror films of all time 🙂

5. Nosferatu is my favourtie vampire as well, so creepy!

6. As you probably know Bill, The Seventh Victim is my number one favorite Val Lewton production 🙂 Who can forget that bleak ending as well. Lewton is a producer who never really got the credit he deserved. I mean, he was the man who gave the horror genre a touch of maturity (or at least American horror). He achieved all of that with the low-budgets he was working with.

   Midsommar is not a remake of The Wicker Man, If that is what you are trying to say. I believe the latter served more as an influence. As for Color Out of Space, you can’t go wrong with Nicolas Cage.

   You have a great list as well 🙂 Interesting to see Black Sunday at numbre one and Inferno at number 2 🙂 I see you sometimes flip flop on which Roman Polanski horror film to choose and I think last year it was Rosemary’s Baby and this year, it is Repulsion 🙂 The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers came out a year after Diabolique revitalized the genre and a year before Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon. Of course, Hammer was making the rounds with Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula. Interesting to see Hellraiser on here because Pete chose that as one of his favorites 🙂 As for The Tingler, I am a huge fan of both William Castle and Vincent Price 🙂 Thoughts? 🙂

7. As for Day of Wrath, which is a film I love, I see it more as a historical drama than a horror film. Same for Ken Russell’s The Devils. Leaves from Satan’s Book does touch on some horror aspects as you say. I still think that Don’t Look Now is more of a horror film than Performance, but the latter does have some aspects to it. I mean just check out that Memo from Turner sequence. As for Stanley Kubrick, I love every single film of his. As for Eyes Wide Shut (great film btw), I see that more as a psychological drama and thriller than an outright horror film 🙂 Thoughts? 🙂

8. It most certainly is June 🙂 Speaking of which, I hear that remake is coming out in December 🙂

9. first off, Wide Shut is a horror fil about mans fear of female sexuality. Secondly, it exposes some horrific activity among New York’s upper class perverts, and some say Kubrick was murdered for fictionalizing their rituals, the same way Mozart was financially abandoned by the masons for incorporating their rituals into The Magis Flute. Mozart had been conned by his enemies into thinking he was honoring his benefactors by including such scenes in his opera. Performance is all about demonic possission as an inspirational force in both the entertainment field and the porno industry. i think Dont Look Now would have been scarier had the ending not been so ambiguous and the small creature in the red coat had actually been a demon. many of Dreyers films have a horrific religious element, but Day of Wath is just as much a horror film as any of the witch burning classics. i agree about the devils though. Nothing really exploitative in the horror film sense at work there. Its more of a lunatic viewof history than nunsploitation. Russell would do anything to hold an audiences attention. He learned that by making biographies of composers for the BBC. He was afraid that viewers would change the channel at the first dull moment

10. i was not confusing idsommer with the wicker man, but referencing the original midsommer from 2003, which when the remake was released, was mentioned as the original swedish film on which the 2019 film was based. but with time and the 2019 films growing reputation, most references to the original have disappeared, and when a reference is found, the claim is made that it is an entirely diffferent story..but you can read the synopsis on imdb to see this is not true. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339385/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_mdsommer%25202003

    i still prefer rosemarys baby to repulsion, but rosemarys baby did nto scare me. after seeing repulsion for the first time, i was afraid to go home alone to my apartment. i based this years list on the movies that actually scared me on the first viewing. i was 12 years old when i saw Black Sunday, and it was restricted to people 12 or older, so it was the first semi restricted movie i got to see..and ill never forget some of those images. inferno is simply a terrifying nightmare. i like suspiria better aesthetically. I suppose Diabolique cn be seen as horror movie. I just never thought of it that way. Great film whowever you slice it.

    With the exception of the film that cannot be criticised, and i can neither praise nor criticise it because i have not seen it, all the fims on your list are masterpieces. they would all have a place on my top 100 horror films list, as would all the films you referred to in your comments.

11. I hear ya Bill 🙂 I do agree with your assessment of Eyes Wide Shut 🙂 Where I get information about what is and is not a horror film, I go to not only Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, but Letterboxd as well. I am aware that that is kind of simplistic, but at least I get somewhere in figuring out what is and is not officially a horror film. I do agree with you on Performance as well, but maybe there is a reason it is not labeled as horror, but once again, I agree with your assessment on that great film. Actually the murderous dwarf in Don’t Look Now scared the hell out of me. I do not know why Day of Wrath is not labeled a horror film, but maybe it is one in spirit, but I love the film nonetheless 🙂 I agree with you on Ken Russell as well – he was always self-aware. His television work is also interesting because creatively speaking, he made fireworks next to nothing because those composer TV films were on low-budgets and it was miraculous how inventive he was 🙂 Thoughts? 🙂

12. Gotcha Bill 🙂 I did read about the original 2003 Midsommar and it is actually not related to the 2019 film, though the 2003 film did spawn a 2007 American remake entitled Solstice. In my personal opinion, I do not think Ari Aster ripped that off because for starters, the 2003 MIdsommar is not a folk horror film – it is a horror, but not a folk one like that or The Wicker Man. I read that Ari Aster cited a painful breakup that partly inspired him to write and direct the film. He also wanted to envision it as a folk horror film.

    Your thoughts on both Rosemary’s Baby and Repulsion (both great films) are fascinating 🙂 You can’t go wrong with either Roman Polanski or Mario Bava 🙂 If Inferno is not Dario Argento’s number one greatest film, it certainly comes close. While Suspiria is my number one favorite of his, Inferno is his second greatest and yes, it plays out like a terrifying nightmare. Simply put, anyone who dismisses Inferno does not understand supernatural horror. I think one of the reasons that Diabolique is seen as a horror film is because until the climactic twist, all of us assume that it is a supernatural revenge story. That and the fact that it was enough to incite Vera Clouzot’s to die of a heart attack made it all the more terrifying. An argument can be made that Diabolique has influenced everything from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho to Robert Aldrich’s Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte to Roman Polanski’s Repulsion and beyond 🙂

    As for my Top 100 Favorite Horror Films of All Time, I will be posting that midnight Thursday in time for Halloween 🙂 You are going to love that 🙂 Thoughts? 🙂

13. i cannot speak from personal experience about the 2003 Midsommer because it has bcome impossible to see. But when the 2019 Midsommer was released, it was cited as a remake of the 2003 film, and IMDB’s plot outline of the 2003 film is similar enough to the 2019 film that (if it is accurate) there is a solid case for litigation against the 2019 on the basis of copywrite infringement. Of course, the more powerful usually win these, and a small Swedish film hasnt a chnce against an big American production. Mel Brooks is an example of a content thief who has won court cases brought against him. He gave no credit or financial renumeration for to Bernard Pomerance, author of the play The Elephant Man, On a more personal note, he outright stole my friend Bill Arnold’s novel Shadowlands, which was the source of his production of Frances. rooks had offered Arnold a hefty sum for the screenplay that was circulating at the time, whichhad already gone through many production deals that had fallen through, and when Arnold turned down his offer, Brooks told him he was going to make the film anyway, with or without his permission. Although many fictional scene from the book were used in the screenplay, the judgement of the court was in favor of Brooks as the material was deemed historical and therefore Arnold had no ownership over it. I mention these two cases because I think it very possible that Carsten Myllerup and Rasmus Heisterberg were paid off to support the assertion that the 2019 film was not a remake of their own work. The purpose in disassociating the relationship between the two films would be to ensure Ari Aster’s reputation as a creative artist. As i said in the beginning, since i have not seen thhe 2003 film, I may be wrong about all this, and I am still searching for a copy of the Swedish film before making any public statement on the matter.

14. i recently read an academic paper that addresed the simpacato relationship between antonioni and hitchcock. for examble, in 1960, both killed off their leading actress within the first 45 minutes. both north by northwest and the passenger feature the lead character following the itinerary of a non-existent character. and the replacement woman figures heavily in both vertigo and l’aventurra. i bring this up because i dont find a lot that is hitchcockian in diabolique, although i have read many essays by writers to do see an influence of diabolique on psycho. i just dont see it. i see more influence of clouzot on chabrol than on hitchcock.

15. Hey Bill, so sorry to hear about all that stuff between your friend and Mel Brooks. I guess the business does tear one apart. Do you remember the Buchwald v. Paramount lawsuit regarding Coming to America? Another example is when Sci-Fi author Harlan Ellison sued Orion Pictures regarding The Terminator for plagiarism and won. He felt that the film was too similar to an episode he wrote of The Outer Limits entitled Soldier. Ellison would be acknowledged during the end credits of the film for all home video releases of The Terminator.

16. Very interesting Bill 🙂 With the exception of Vertigo (or at least in one way) and Psycho, Clouzot never really influenced any of Hitchcock’s other films. I think it was just Diabolique that influenced (partly or otherwise) those aforementioned films of his. I understand the Claude Chabrol connection – L’Enfer was based on an unfinished film of the same name written and directed by Clouzot himself. Speaking of Hitchcock and Antonioni, did you know that Hitchcock was planning on making a radical serial killer film back in the mid-60’s under the working title Kaleidoscope? The heads at MCA Universal reportedly turned it down due to it’s graphically violent and sexually explicit sequences. The film was reportedly going to be done in a style similar to that of the European New Wave. It would shot on location (New York in this case) on a low-budget and with a cast of unknowns. Thoughts? 🙂

17. he did make that film, Kaleidoscope. it was relesed under the title Frenzy

18. Yes, I was quite excited to hear about the remake…and then laughed as it’s a Christmas release 🙂

19. Actually Bill, Frenzy only shares superficial similarities to the unrealized Kaleidoscope. For starters, Frenzy was shot on location in the UK, whereas Kaleidoscope would have been shot on location in the USA (New York in this case). Second, Frenzy is presented in a classical style as opposed to the European New Wave influenced one of the unrealized Kaleidoscope. While Frenzy is shocking compared to Hitchcock’s then previous films, standing on it’s own, it plays out more or less as a traditional Hitchcock murder thriller, If one takes away the shock value on display. In the end, Frenzy features none of the radical ideas that would have shaped Kaleidoscope. Here are a few video links that go into more detail on it.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-55062763

    Here is an excerpt from a 1999 episode of the BBC series Reputations on Hitchcock concerning the unrealized Kaleidoscope

    A Youtuber known as “The Geek Informant” breaks down it’s history in this link below

    Also, If the links do not work, click on these two below for more information on the unrealized Kaleidoscope

    https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Kaleidoscope

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock%27s_unrealized_projects#Frenzy_(a.k.a._Kaleidoscope)_(1964%E2%80%931967)

    So, what are your thoughts on the links Bill? 🙂

20. I hear ya June 🙂 I can’t believe it was not released now for Halloween 🙂

21. do any of these links contain quotes directly from hitchock about the project, in particular explaining that Frenzy is a completely different project from Kaleidoscope? You know that is is the norm for a project to go through a lot of changes before the film finally goes into production. also telling is the fact that Universal removed its logo from the opening credits. Aso, an alternative title for kaleidoscope was Frenzy….so in my view, Hitchcock was eventually able to make the film he wanted to make , with some drastic changes of course. Hitch was involved in many unrealized projects as well as films that he was slated at some point to direct but ended up either withdrawing from or being withdrawn from. As far as the new wave goes, Truffaut was instrumental in his being revered as an artist rather than respected as a craftsman, so its possible that they talked of working together or at least hitch being welcomed into the new wave society of auteurs. Had that film been made under Truffaut’s influence, I dont think he would have been making films like Topaz and Torn Curtain in his later years.

22. I do not know what more proof you need Bill? Though a lot of what you heard has been reported in books about Alfred Hitchcock by close associates. I am also aware about changes before something goes into production. I am aware that Truffaut’s book of interviews between himself and Hitchcock is responsible for making the case (and rightfully so) that Hitchcock was not only a master showman, but a cinematic artist in his own right. As for more info on Kaleidoscope, did you ever read Dan Auiler’s 1999 book entitled HItchcock’s Notebooks. The book contains authorized access to Hitchcock’s files and notes within his filmmaking career. Kaleidoscope is given detail there. While it is undeniably messy chronologically, it is worth a read. Also, by the time Frenzy was in production, it was too late for Hitchcock to reinvent himself because what he wanted to do with Kaleidoscope had now been touched upon. In other words, younger American filmmaker or younger compared to him, by now, had already introduced American audiences to European New Wave filmmaking techniques. Some of the books detailing the Kaleidoscope incident reported that Hitchcock’s failure to get it green lighted, reduced him to tears shortly afterwards. Now, I do not know how true that is, but I do believe that HItchcock wanted to be remembered even in the years where his health was declining, as an innovator. I think MCA Universal’s then head Lew Wasserman’s refusal to greenlight Kaleidoscope deprived Hitchcock of continuing to do that.

23. 10 excellent picks. I often wonder what our favourite horror films say about us… If there’s any underlying connection between most of your (or my) favourites. I’m looking forward to the new Nosferatu – vampires haven’t been scary on the big screen for some time now.

24. Why thank you for the kind words Carlosnightman 🙂 As for the underlying connection, I wonder the same thing 🙂 In fact, I find it surprising that all ten of my choices come from different decades – a little bit of something for everybody 🙂 I too am looking forward to the new Nosferatu and it is surprising that the studio did not decide to release it now for Halloween 🙂 Given how hideous the character of Nosferatu looks, that factor alone is bound to scare us 🙂

25. Great list, john. Happy to see Val Lewton represented.

    I have a few horror films that are essential to my Halloween celebration: Carnival of Souls, Horror Hotel, Kwaidan and Island of Lost Souls

    happy Halloween!

26. you are right about everything, and i have to admit that if someone told me pat garrett and billy the kid was peckinpah’s realization of one eyed jacks i would think they were ill informrf. seeing some of the footge from kaleidescope shows the different direction hitchcock would have taken. one thing ill add though. when frenzy was released, it was greeted with the same disgust that kaleidescope would have received. everyone was saying hitchcock had sunk to a despicabl level wiht his explicit ssexiness and violence.

27. You are right about all of that Bill 🙂 While Frenzy did get acclaim here and there, it was not without it’s detractors. While Frenzy does pale compared to what Kaleidoscope would have offered, standing on it’s own, it features enough sequences of graphic violence and sexuality to turn off a fair share of viewers. As to how Hitchcock got Frenzy made at Universal (despite the MCA Universal logo not appearing at the beginning) is as much a mystery to me as it is to you. Standing on it’s own, Frenzy is the most shocking Hitchcock film to date, but compared to the unrealized Kaleidoscope, it arguably remains a pal shadow. Given the absence of a European New-Wave influenced style further confirms this. Believe it or not, the comedic mystery thriller Family Plot (1976) was not intended as Hitchcock’s last film. Before his death in 1980, he tried to get another espionage thriller off the ground entitled The Short Night, which would have featured Sean Connery as the protagonist and Walter Matthau as the antagonist. Considered for the female supporting character would have been either Catherine Deneuve or Liv Ullman. Hitchcock originally tried to get The Short Night made after Topaz, but the commercial failure of that film, prompted him to go in another direction. Along with Torn Curtain, Topaz was Hitchcock’s second espionage thriller in a row. One thing I often hear about The Short Night when it is discussed is that it would have served as Hitchcock’s third attempt at a more realistic James Bond-like story after those previous two espionage thrillers. Interesting isn’t it? Bill 🙂

28. Why thank you for the kind words Mitchell 🙂 That is not all though because on Halloween, I will be posting a blog entry regarding my Top 100 Favorite Horror films of All Time 🙂 The titles you mention are fantastic as well 🙂

29. i wish he could have done the short night instead of the family plot, which i think he slept through. the actors are out of control in that one. they seem to have been given no direction, and are just running amuk. by the way, i love topaz and torn curtain is pretty good as well….you know my favorite of his is the birds, and marnie was a decent follow up to that, if not in the same league.

30. regarding hitchock and european films. i do think he achieved that with The Birds, which i find to have such kinship with antonioni that i paired it with red desert when i was programming double features.

31. As you are probably aware Bill, I love every single film by Alfred Hitchcock 🙂 As you are probably aware by now (based on my top 100 favorite films of all time list), Marnie is the second Hitchcock title mentioned on there 🙂

32. Wow you got to program double features in the past? Awesome 🙂 Was it at a theater house (the type that shows both old and new films)? 🙂 That is the type of job that I always wanted to do 🙂

33. i managed the harvard square theatre in cambridge MA . we showed a different double feature every day, it was an independent theatre owned by fred taylor, and tony mauriello, who also had a jazz clb and brought miles davis out of retirement in the 80s. when they sold the theatre to a chain, i went to work for the orson welles cinema, which burned down in 1986 and i spent five years in court defending myself against charges of negligence because i decided to evacuate the theatre rather than fight a rapidly spreading fire with an extinguisher.

34. Oh my God, I am so sorry to hear that Bill 😦

35. i won the case, but the myth survives that the fire started in the popcorn machine. had tha been the case, it would have been easy to extingish. but it was an electrical fire that spread through the wires throughout the building. i grabbed the extinguisher but within seconds the whole ceiling in the lobby was on fire, so i threw it down, called the projectionists to evacuate the three auditotiums, and then the fire department. everybody got out safely and by the time everyone was out, the whole building was in flames. working in movie theatres was a lot of fun mostly, but not nearly as rewarding as writing about movies for the daily newspaper, which i did from 1999-2009.

36. It always makes me sad when something burns down 😦 It has been said many times before and I will. repeat it, I wish nothing burned down. I knew you were a film critic for 10 years – it was for one of the newspapers in the state of Washington If I am not mistaken? 🙂

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38. Seattle PI. went out of business in 2009. several buildings on that block were burned down to make way for development. as aside, after the trial i was told by the prosecutor that he knew i was innocent all along. the snag was that the owner of the building was contractually forbidden to sue the leasees (the cinema owners) but were allowed to sue one of their employees. since i was the manager on duty, i drew the short straw.

39. Great to see Twin Peaks on the list and a personal fav in Devil Backbone along with his Pan’s Labyrinth (yeah might be concidered a fantasy but man it’s as close as fanasy meets horror as you can get!!
    Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In (2008) would make a list if I ever did one along with the Cremator (1969). TBH I’m not a real horror guy (yep shocking with my background I know). But I do love loads of 80’s VHS horror classics and sci-fi action horror of course.

40. Only have seen The Shining and The Devil’s Backbone, John. Although I do think I remember seeing Nosferatu on TV as a kid. That vampire, of course, was terrifying! We love del Toro, hubby and I. He did such a great job with Pacific Rim. His monsters are always so creepy and horrible.

    Curious why you put a warning about Twin Peaks. Do people dislike it or just not consider it horror?

    Some of my horror favs are: The Exorcist (because the acting’s so great, especially from the priest and the detective, and I love the slow buildup) 30 Days of Night (which we just watched tonight, in honor of Halloween) the first 3/4 of Silent Hill, Misery (no monsters, but horror of a different kind), Sixth Sense, and It. Most of the kids in It were really good and the clown is the stuff of nightmares….

41. Thank you for the kind words Wolfie 🙂 If Don’t Look Now is the most subtly emotional horror film ever made, then Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is the most openly emotional horror film ever made. I see Pan’s Labyrinth more as a dark fantasy, but I can see where the horror comes in for you 🙂

    As for Let the Right One In, that one is on my top 100 favorite horror films list that I posted yesterday 🙂 As for 1980’s horror, are you familiar with legendary New Zealand director Peter Jackson’s 1987 debut Bad Taste? The film is almost like a dress rehearsal for 1992’s Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead) 🙂

42. Hey there Stacy 🙂 As you can see I love The Shining, The Devil’s Backbone and Nosferatu 🙂 I too love anything directed by Guillermo del Toro 🙂

    The reason I warn others not to say anything negative about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is because I can’t ever imagine anyone disliking it because it so emotionally powerful. I have not encountered any intense dislike for it today and while it did open to scathing reviews at the time, it has since been reassessed as a misunderstood masterpiece – in fact, 50% of those who originally gave negative reviews to it have since gone on to champion it as a great film 🙂 Believe it or not, John Carpenter’s 1982 version of The Thing initially opened to bad reviews, but has since gone on to be reassessed as one of the greatest horror films of all time 🙂

    As for 1973’s The Exorcist, let us not forget the fear expressed by Ellen Burstyn as the mother of Linda Blair’s character:) 30 Days of Night had Josh Hartnett in it and Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead films) served as a co-producer on that 🙂 I am aware that Silent Hill was based on a video game series and Misery was good 🙂 The Sixth Sense is very good and 2017’s It is a great one 🙂 I hear ya about Pennywise as well 🙂

43. Ah, I gotcha John. About the Twin Peaks warning. Very interesting! You have a super strong connection with it. Man, I know I’ve seen at least some of it… I just don’t remember! But hearing about it from you, I really have to seek it out now, John.

    Oh, and I forgot The Thing! That’s definitely one of mine and hubby’s favs. And you’re right about the mother in The Exorcist–she was great too. Very, very convincing.

    Horror is my husband’s favorite genre next to sci-fi. We just saw two meh ones this weekend–M. Night’s latest, Trap, and a really bad Netflix one called Don’t Move. Actually, they seem more like thrillers than horror. Maybe a mix. 🙂

44. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is one of the most emotionally powerful horror film ever made – in fact, Sheryl Lee (who played Laura Palmer) has said that over the years, she has gotten thank you letter or has gotten hearfelt thank you’s from domestic abuse survivors, who remarked that she accurately captured their pain – you can’t get higher praise than that.

    The Thing is undoubtedly a masterpiece as well 🙂 Originally, Donald Pleasance was supposed to play Wilford Brimley’s role, but I think scheduling conflicts forced him to turn it down or something, but I could not imagine anyone else playing Brimley’s role, but Brimley 🙂

    I have to check out those two films one of these days, but given your thoughts on it, I will either skip it or wait in the future 🙂

    Given that horror is your husband’s second favorite genre after sci-fi (is it yours too?), I recently posted a blog entry regarding my top 100 favorite horror films of all time – click the link below 🙂

    John Charet’s Top 100 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time

45. Oh my god, that’s a lot! I’m gonna save this post and check some of those out. I know I must have seen at least a handful out of your 100.
    And no, horror is NOT my favorite genre, lol. It’s kinda weird, actually. I used to read Stephen King and Dean Kuntz and others as a kid. But now I’m not into horror at all, really. I don’t know what happened, John! lol Maybe I was braver when I was younger. Who knows! 🙂

46. Amazing list of great horror films, John and beautifully written. We will all have our opinions on our favourite horror films and cinema is general. I do agree that Don’t Look Now is one of the finest works of cinema of all time, and definitely one of the scariest films ever. Great article, John.

47. Yes seen both the cult NZ mayhem movies. However, both are in much need of a re-visit. Just not enough time in the universe to see everything. Though I think you might be almost there JC LOL

48. Interesting thoughts Stacy 🙂 I love every single genre 🙂 I focused on horror last month because October is the month of Halloween 🙂 Do you love comedies? 🙂

49. Why thank you for the kind words Paul 🙂 Great to hear that you love Don’t Look Now as well 🙂 If A24 had existed during the 1970’s. they would have undoubtedly financed that film 🙂

50. As with Guillermo del Toro, I am a huge fan of the work of Peter Jackson Wolfie 🙂 I love Dead Alive and Bad Taste every bit as his other work 🙂 The only misfires of his were The Lovely Bones and The Hobbit Trilogy, but to be fair on the latter, Jackson did not get the kind of freedom he had when he made his masterful Lord of the Rings Trilogy. For example, Jackson reportedly did not get the time to storyboard The Hobbit films whereas he got to storyboard the LOTR Trilogy. Jackson has also made some great documentaries like that 2021 Beatles documentary 🙂