The horror genre can feel overwhelming for some — it’s full of classics, sure, but also schlock-fests, perfectly average genre exercises and, frankly, more than a few extremely bad knock-offs. But if you’re looking to catch up the essential horror bona fides, we’ve got you covered. Below, we’ve put together a list of 25 horror classics that every serious film fan should see, providing a wide range of influential films from 1920 all the way up to 2017.
This is by no means a complete list — there are so many more great horror films to check out. But if you want an entry point to the best of the best, start here.
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1920) Decla-Film
Robert Weine’s “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” has been touted as the first true horror film that helped to shape the horror and film noir genre through its dark visual style.
This is by no means a complete list — there are so many more great horror films to check out. But if you want an entry point to the best of the best, start here.
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1920) Decla-Film
Robert Weine’s “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” has been touted as the first true horror film that helped to shape the horror and film noir genre through its dark visual style.
- 10/28/2022
- by Loree Seitz, Harper Lambert, Haleigh Foutch and Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Rock singer-songwriter Jesse Jo Stark unveiled her new song “Lady Bird” on Friday, with an up close and personal video – literally. The clip is a single-take close-up of Stark’s eyes, bedazzled with glittery green eyeshadow, as she sings “Lady Bird” in voiceover. “I’d love to kill you but you look like an angel still/Street lights up our faces/Winding down the hill,” she sings of a toxic relationship over a spare piano.
“Lady Bird” is Stark’s fourth standalone single following her debut Ep, Dandelion, released last year,...
“Lady Bird” is Stark’s fourth standalone single following her debut Ep, Dandelion, released last year,...
- 6/21/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Dr. Anthony Garcia is somebody who bore a grudge — with horrific consequences. In March 2008, a shocking double murder hit headlines when 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family’s house cleaner Shirlee Sherman were found murdered in his family home — both left with a knife sticking out of the right side of their necks. Nobody could figure out why two such innocent people would have been killed like that in cold blood, and the case eventually went cold. However, five years later when Roger and Mary Brumback were found dead in their home in May 2013 – not far...read more...
- 2/12/2018
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
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- 5/5/2017
- by Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
It has been more than eight years since the killing of 11-year-old Thomas Hunter, but his older brother feels the pain like it was yesterday — despite the fact that the killer is behind bars.
“I guess it provides some closure but I’m not sure if it gives me much in the way of satisfaction,” Tim Hunter tells People.
Tim was 25-years-old when his father, Dr. William Hunter, a prominent doctor and director for the Department of Pathology at Creighton University, discovered the bodies of 11-year-old Thomas and the family’s 57-year-old housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman, in the Hunters’ Omaha home...
“I guess it provides some closure but I’m not sure if it gives me much in the way of satisfaction,” Tim Hunter tells People.
Tim was 25-years-old when his father, Dr. William Hunter, a prominent doctor and director for the Department of Pathology at Creighton University, discovered the bodies of 11-year-old Thomas and the family’s 57-year-old housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman, in the Hunters’ Omaha home...
- 12/1/2016
- by cpelisektimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
The March 13, 2008 double murder was so shocking it made national headlines.
Eleven-year-old Thomas Hunter was found stabbed to death in his family’s Omaha, Nebraska, home, his body discovered near that of the family’s house cleaner, Shirlee Sherman. The boy’s father, Dr. William Hunter, a prominent doctor and director for the Department of Pathology at Creighton University, made the initial discovery.
The killer left the same grisly signature on both of the bodies: A knife stuck in the right side of their necks.
The case went cold for five years until police discovered the bodies of Roger and Mary Brumback,...
Eleven-year-old Thomas Hunter was found stabbed to death in his family’s Omaha, Nebraska, home, his body discovered near that of the family’s house cleaner, Shirlee Sherman. The boy’s father, Dr. William Hunter, a prominent doctor and director for the Department of Pathology at Creighton University, made the initial discovery.
The killer left the same grisly signature on both of the bodies: A knife stuck in the right side of their necks.
The case went cold for five years until police discovered the bodies of Roger and Mary Brumback,...
- 11/30/2016
- by cpelisektimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
Anthony Garcia, a former medical resident, became a convicted serial killer Wednesday afternoon as jurors returned guilty verdicts on his four first-degree murder counts, People confirms.
Garcia, 42, faces either life imprisonment or the death penalty, court officials tell People.
His sentence will depend on the outcome of a Nov. 8 ballot question being put before the Nebraska voters that could abolish the state’s death penalty.
It’s the ending to what prosecutors have described a years-long series of revenge killings that started with Garcia’s firing from a residency program at Nebraska’s Creighton University School of Medicine.
In 2008, Garcia fatally stabbed 11-year-old Thomas Hunter,...
Garcia, 42, faces either life imprisonment or the death penalty, court officials tell People.
His sentence will depend on the outcome of a Nov. 8 ballot question being put before the Nebraska voters that could abolish the state’s death penalty.
It’s the ending to what prosecutors have described a years-long series of revenge killings that started with Garcia’s firing from a residency program at Nebraska’s Creighton University School of Medicine.
In 2008, Garcia fatally stabbed 11-year-old Thomas Hunter,...
- 10/27/2016
- by chrisharristimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
What's new on the app stores on Friday 9 March 2012
A selection of 17 apps for you today:
Zuma's Revenge HD
There are hundreds of mobile games pretending to be ball-popping puzzler Zuma, but this is the real deal, from EA's PopCap division. It includes 60 levels of sphere-firing action, including six boss battles.
iPhone / iPad
Guardian Crosswords
The Guardian's first crosswords app has gone live for Android as a free trial, providing the daily Guardian Cryptic crossword on weekdays, and the Quick crosswords on Mondays to Saturdays. Social features are built in for competitive types. It's free for now, but payment options are coming in the future, as may be an iOS version.
Android
Peter Pan: Disney Classics
Disney's famous animated retelling of Peter Pan has spawned a new book-app, where the classic Neverland story is complemented with mini-games, digital colouring and a virtual Pan flute.
iPhone / iPad
Biologic
Well, this is...
A selection of 17 apps for you today:
Zuma's Revenge HD
There are hundreds of mobile games pretending to be ball-popping puzzler Zuma, but this is the real deal, from EA's PopCap division. It includes 60 levels of sphere-firing action, including six boss battles.
iPhone / iPad
Guardian Crosswords
The Guardian's first crosswords app has gone live for Android as a free trial, providing the daily Guardian Cryptic crossword on weekdays, and the Quick crosswords on Mondays to Saturdays. Social features are built in for competitive types. It's free for now, but payment options are coming in the future, as may be an iOS version.
Android
Peter Pan: Disney Classics
Disney's famous animated retelling of Peter Pan has spawned a new book-app, where the classic Neverland story is complemented with mini-games, digital colouring and a virtual Pan flute.
iPhone / iPad
Biologic
Well, this is...
- 3/9/2012
- by Stuart Dredge
- The Guardian - Film News
Sci-fi yields many visions of helpful and friendly robots - as well as dangerous and destructive ones.
We have Gort in The Day The Earth Stood Still, Robby in The Forbidden Planet, the various mechanical creations in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow, the futuristic servants in I, Robot and the killing machines of Terminator.
And who can forget Twiki and his pudding-bowl hairdo in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Doctor Who's K9, Star Wars droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 and the more recent Wall-e? Their designs were as varied as their functions and purposes.
But what about the real world? Will robots have an important role as future human assistants? Can we teach them to be social beings? What uses could they be put to in human society?
You can get the answers to those questions and more at a forthcoming event called Rise of the Machines.
We have Gort in The Day The Earth Stood Still, Robby in The Forbidden Planet, the various mechanical creations in Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow, the futuristic servants in I, Robot and the killing machines of Terminator.
And who can forget Twiki and his pudding-bowl hairdo in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Doctor Who's K9, Star Wars droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 and the more recent Wall-e? Their designs were as varied as their functions and purposes.
But what about the real world? Will robots have an important role as future human assistants? Can we teach them to be social beings? What uses could they be put to in human society?
You can get the answers to those questions and more at a forthcoming event called Rise of the Machines.
- 10/13/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
From Martin Scorsese to Peter Doig, film-makers, photographers and artists explain how Caravaggio's prophetically cinematic paintings inspired them
David Lachapelle – Photographer and film director
Caravaggio is often called the most modern of the old masters – there's a newness, a contemporary feel to his work that painting prior to him just didn't have. It's like when [fashion designer Alexander] McQueen came on the scene, everything else [in the fashion world] suddenly looked old. Caravaggio used light like a photographer and his pictures are cropped like photographs. One that sticks in my mind is Boy Bitten By a Lizard. That's a beautiful example of the one-source light that we identify Caravaggio with, that he pioneered, but it's also a wonderful captured moment, this boy's sort of feminine reaction to the lizard's bite. It's a photograph before photography.
The flower in the boy's hair and the blouse coming off his shoulders I think signify that the boy is a male prostitute.
David Lachapelle – Photographer and film director
Caravaggio is often called the most modern of the old masters – there's a newness, a contemporary feel to his work that painting prior to him just didn't have. It's like when [fashion designer Alexander] McQueen came on the scene, everything else [in the fashion world] suddenly looked old. Caravaggio used light like a photographer and his pictures are cropped like photographs. One that sticks in my mind is Boy Bitten By a Lizard. That's a beautiful example of the one-source light that we identify Caravaggio with, that he pioneered, but it's also a wonderful captured moment, this boy's sort of feminine reaction to the lizard's bite. It's a photograph before photography.
The flower in the boy's hair and the blouse coming off his shoulders I think signify that the boy is a male prostitute.
- 7/24/2010
- by Imogen Carter
- The Guardian - Film News
President Obama, frustrated at slapdash efforts to stem the leaking Gulf oil, has done something remarkable: He's pulled together a crack science team. Among its members are an H-bomb scientist and an expert in nanotech and robotics.
The President's new effort came together very quickly last week, and we don't yet know much about what they're up to (other than that they're very busy). We do know who they are though, and by digging into their individual bios, and looking at each scientist's expertise, we may be able to guess at the sort of tech being discussed.
Alexander Slocum is a stand-out member of Obama's A-Team (though perhaps we should call it the O-Team, for a bunch of reasons beginning with "Oh god, what an oily mess"). Slocum is a professor of mechanical engineering at M.I.T., and his bio page at M.I.T.'s MechE Web page notes he's interested in nanotechnology,...
The President's new effort came together very quickly last week, and we don't yet know much about what they're up to (other than that they're very busy). We do know who they are though, and by digging into their individual bios, and looking at each scientist's expertise, we may be able to guess at the sort of tech being discussed.
Alexander Slocum is a stand-out member of Obama's A-Team (though perhaps we should call it the O-Team, for a bunch of reasons beginning with "Oh god, what an oily mess"). Slocum is a professor of mechanical engineering at M.I.T., and his bio page at M.I.T.'s MechE Web page notes he's interested in nanotechnology,...
- 5/17/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Lloyd Levin isn’t the only Watchmen producer breaking his silence today. Larry Gordon, the producer who has been painted as the villain in the whole Watchmen fiasco has written a lengthy to U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess. Gordon places blame on Fox (of course) and his lawyers at the time. The Judge’s previous decision found Gordon at blame for not securing rights from Fox before setting the project up at Warner Bros. Gordon claims in the letter that Fox sent his lawyer Tom Hunter a chain of title that did not include the 1991 quitclaim that granted Fox distribution rights to the film and a share of profits if Gordon made it elsewhere. The letter reads:
“It is Mr. Gordon’s position that the execution of the 1994 turnaround agreement was the result of either a mutual mistake by both parties or a unilateral mistake made by his counsel,...
“It is Mr. Gordon’s position that the execution of the 1994 turnaround agreement was the result of either a mutual mistake by both parties or a unilateral mistake made by his counsel,...
- 1/9/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Larry Gordon is tired of being the villain in the "Watchmen" dispute.
In an unorthodox move, the veteran producer has fired off a lengthy letter to U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess blaming Fox and his then-lawyers for the debacle and offering his version of events that led to the court's ruling that Fox owns distribution rights to the Zack Snyder-helmed comic-book adaptation.
Feess' Dec. 24 decision found that Gordon, who is not a party to the case, did not secure proper rights to "Watchmen" from Fox before shopping the project and setting it up at Warner Bros. The judge also said Gordon had "refused to testify" to key questions during his deposition and, as punishment, would not be allowed to have his voice heard on "any aspect" of the case.
Gordon had remained silent since then but fired back Wednesday, stating in a letter filed by his litigation...
In an unorthodox move, the veteran producer has fired off a lengthy letter to U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess blaming Fox and his then-lawyers for the debacle and offering his version of events that led to the court's ruling that Fox owns distribution rights to the Zack Snyder-helmed comic-book adaptation.
Feess' Dec. 24 decision found that Gordon, who is not a party to the case, did not secure proper rights to "Watchmen" from Fox before shopping the project and setting it up at Warner Bros. The judge also said Gordon had "refused to testify" to key questions during his deposition and, as punishment, would not be allowed to have his voice heard on "any aspect" of the case.
Gordon had remained silent since then but fired back Wednesday, stating in a letter filed by his litigation...
- 1/9/2009
- by By Matthew Belloni and Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kim Cattrall (center) looking as good as her younger counterparts. (Photo copyright Tom Hunter)
More evidence that middle-aged women still have what it takes: Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City posed for photographer Tom Hunter amid some nubile twenty-somethings as part of a high profile plan to save an art masterpiece. No wonder Milf has entered the universal lexicon! For details click here...
More evidence that middle-aged women still have what it takes: Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City posed for photographer Tom Hunter amid some nubile twenty-somethings as part of a high profile plan to save an art masterpiece. No wonder Milf has entered the universal lexicon! For details click here...
- 11/28/2008
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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