Halloween

Halloween Post: John Charet’s Top 10 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time

by John Charet

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-

  1. Night of the Demon (1957) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur) (United Kingdom)
  2. The Seventh Victim (1943) (Dir: Mark Robson) (United States)
  3. Eyes Without a Face (1960) (Dir: Georges Franju) (France/Italy)
  4. Vampyr (1932) (Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer) (Germany/France)
  5. The Fury (1978) (Dir: Brian De Palma) (United States)
  6. The Black Cat (1934) (Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer) (United States)
  7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) (Dir: David Lynch) (France/United States)
  8. The Shining (1980) (Dir: Stanley Kubrick) (United States/United Kingdom)
  9. Midsommar (2019) (Dir: Ari Aster) (United States/Sweden)
  10. 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

Horror Films That I Love to Watch Each Year in October

by John Charet

First off, Happy Halloween to my dear readers and second, I would love to share with you all a list of horror films that I love to watch during the month of October. Now these are not the only horror films that I love, these are just the ones I love to watch during the aforementioned month. Anyway, enjoy the list below 🙂

Horror Films that I love to watch during the month of October (in chronological order)

  1. Cat People (1942) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur)
  2. The Ghost Ship (1943) (Dir: Mark Robson)
  3. I Walked with a Zombie (1943) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur)
  4. The Leopard Man (1943) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur)
  5. The Seventh Victim (1943) (Dir: Mark Robson)
  6. The Curse of the Cat People (1944) (Dir: Robert Wise)
  7. The Body Snatcher (1945) (Dir: Robert Wise)
  8. Dead of Night (1945) (Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer)
    (Anthology)
  9. Isle of the Dead (1945) (Dir: Mark Robson)
  10. Bedlam (1946) (Dir: Mark Robson)
  11. The Birds (1963) (Dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
  12. Night of the Living Dead (1968) (Dir: George A. Romero)
  13. Shivers (1975) (Dir: David Cronenberg)
    (a.k.a. They Came from Within)
  14. Eraserhead (1977) (Dir: David Lynch)
  15. Rabid (1977) (Dir: David Cronenberg)
  16. Dawn of the Dead (1978) (Dir: George A. Romero)
  17. Halloween (1978) (Dir: John Carpenter)
  18. The Brood (1979) (Dir: David Cronenberg)
  19. An American Werewolf in London (1981) (Dir: John Landis)
  20. The Evil Dead (1981) (Dir: Sam Raimi)
  21. The Thing (1982) (Dir: John Carpenter)
  22. Re-Animator (1985) (Dir: Stuart Gordon)
  23. The Fly (1986) (Dir: David Cronenberg)
  24. From Beyond (1986) (Dir: Stuart Gordon)
  25. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) (Dir: John McNaughton)
    (Not released theatrically until 1990)
  26. Evil Dead II (1987) (Dir: Sam Raimi)
  27. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) (Dir: David Lynch)
  28. Cronos (1993) (Dir: Guillermo del Toro)
  29. The Devil’s Backbone (2001) (Dir: Guillermo del Toro)
  30. Shaun of the Dead (2004) (Dir: Edgar Wright)
  31. Let the Right One In (2008) (Dir: Tomas Alfredson)
  32. The Babadook (2014) (Dir: Jennifer Kent)
  33. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) (Dir: Ana Lily Amirpour)
  34. Raw (2016) (Dir: Julia Ducournau)
  35. Midsommar (2019) (Dir: Ari Aster)