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29 October 2011 2:30 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Choosing my favourite horror films of all time is like choosing between my children – not that I have children, but if I did, I am sure I would categorize them quite like my DVD collection. As with all lists, this is personal and nobody will agree with every choice – and if you do, that would be incredibly disturbing. Also, it was almost impossible for me to rank them in order, but I tried. I based my list taking into consideration three points:

1- Technical accomplishments / artistry and their influence on the genre.

2- How many times I’ve revisited the films and how easily it makes for a repeated viewings.

3- Its story, atmosphere and how much it affected me when I first watched them.

Finally, there are many great films such as The Witchfinder General, The Wickerman and even Hour Of The Wolf that won’t appear here. I »

- Ricky

27 October 2011 9:46 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. Island of Lost Souls. The Most Dangerous Game. The Night of the Hunter. The Blob. For a company perhaps best known for releasing pristine editions of international arthouse classics, The Criterion Collection certainly has a healthy amount of cult films in its repertoire. Cult cinema is often a difficult beast to recognize, for such films avoid the roads best travelled in their journey towards recognition and renown. Unlike seminal films in the collection including The 400 Blows, 8 ½, or Rashomon, cult films aren’t typically met with immediate cultural or institutional recognition upon release, aren’t made by internationally-recognized talent, and don’t always have an immediately traceable history of influence. That is, however, what makes cult films so interesting and so valuable: they emerge without expectation or pretense and signal the most populist and anti-elite means by which a film can gain recognition, pointing »

- Landon Palmer

20 April 2011 8:15 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

Ryan salutes the BBC2 series Moviedrome, which for 12 years introduced a plethora of cult films to unsuspecting UK audiences…

For better or worse, I have Alex Cox to thank for my enduring appetite for film. In the late 80s and early 90s, when I was still at school and the Internet was still the preserve of the rich and the Us military, the BBC2 series Moviedrome introduced me, and I suspect a legion of other impressionable youngsters, into the fascinating alternate world of obscure or low-budget movies.

Beginning in 1988, director Alex Cox introduced a series of cult and exploitation movies, commencing with Robin Hardy's folk horror, The Wicker Man. Before long, Sunday nights became an oasis of the weird and the sensational, and as a youth still watching cartoons like Transformers and Thundercats, films like Invasion Of The Body Snatchers and The Fly seemed like startling broadcasts from another universe. »

7 April 2011 8:59 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »

The characters in Insidious, the terrific and blessedly scary new horror film, are menaced by ghosts, but a better way to put it would be that they’re frightened by faces. Faces that stare and smile and hover, and eventually turn out to be part of the spirit world that Patrick Wilson, as the besieged father, must enter — when he’s roaming around in it, it’s like a fun house designed by David Lynch. Insidious has been directed, by James Wan (Saw), in a highly effective spooky manner, but there’s no denying — it’s almost part of the »

- Owen Gleiberman

25 March 2011 12:51 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

L'ANNÉE DERNIÈRE À Marienbad / Last Year At Marienbad (1961) Direction: Alain Resnais Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff Screenplay: Alain Robbe-Grillet Oscar Movies Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: Forget all prior claims you've read about Alain Resnais," 90-minute, black-and-white effort L'année dernière à Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad (1961) — from the bad to the good, from publicity nonsense which declaims the three main characters are named after letters (they are actually unnamed), and watch it raw, for only then you'll realize why greatness is its own company. That's because the differences are minimal between the great Last Year at Marienbad, a work of art considered a cinematic high point, and Herk Harvey's 1962 B-horror film Carnival of Souls. Their similarities, on the other hand, are considerable, even though I doubt that Harvey had even seen Last Year at Marienbad while making his [...] »

- Dan Schneider

5 items from 2011