Movies that that chill to the bone.
These have stayed in the memories long after they finished.
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- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda BlairWhen a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.The film that stayed with me for many years. A tour de force of film making. Never bettered.
- DirectorSrdjan SpasojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicSergej TrifunovicJelena GavrilovicAn aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.A nightmare journey into man's (and a country's) darkest psyche. Be warned this film will burn itself forever into your mind, but hopefully not your soul. Controversial? (you bet).
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.A masterpeice from the first frame until the last.
- DirectorTun-Fei MouStarsGang WangDai Yao WuRunshen WangJapanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.Make sure it's not the English dubbed version (dreadful, and unintentionally funny due to terrible dubbing). Nothing prepares you for the last half hour of this film. Chilling and heartbreaking look at how human beings can stoop to such barbarity.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsDonald PleasenceJamie Lee CurtisTony MoranFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.The film that launched a thousand b movie slashers. Nothing comes close to bettering it.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith DavidA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.Claustrophobic brilliance.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyo IshibashiEihi ShiinaTetsu SawakiA widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.Takashi's masterpeice of slow burning revenge.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.The atmosphere of dread that Scott created was genius.
- DirectorAndrew TrauckiStarsDamian Walshe-HowlingGyton GrantleyAdrienne PickeringA great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.Highly underrated little gem of a movie. Realistic and chilling, that makes Jaws play like a Disney movie. It helps if you have a fear of sharks too.
- DirectorDavid NerlichAndrew TrauckiStarsDiana GlennMaeve DermodyAndy RodoredaA boat tour of a mangrove swamp turns into a fight for survival when a group of people are attacked by a ferocious saltwater crocodile.Chilling and stomach churning. This film should be re-released for the masses. A nightmare tale of survival that will haunt the senses long after it ends.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsAl PacinoPaul SorvinoKaren AllenA police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.Caused wide spread controversy in it's time, but still can disturb with it's dark menace. This film along with, The Exorcist, The French Connection and Taxi Driver were dark in mood and atmosphere which laid the foundations for many others to tread e.g. Seven, Silence of the lambs, Hostel and the list goes on.....
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsBarbara HersheyRon SilverDavid LabiosaA woman is tormented by an invisible being.It helps to read the book first, as then you realise how disturbing a case (fact or fiction) this was. Hershey was an inspired choice for the lead too.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsMarilyn BurnsEdwin NealAllen DanzigerFive friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.Strip away the b movie dialogue, and you have a film that still resonates through the decades.
- DirectorDavid MoreauXavier PaludStarsOlivia BonamyMichaël CohenAdriana MoccaLucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.A roller coaster ride that chilled me so much that after it finished (and I realised it was based on fact ) I quickly made sure my windows and doors were firmly closed. Excellent.
- DirectorJames WatkinsStarsKelly ReillyMichael FassbenderTara EllisRefusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.The best British chiller in decades and an ending that haunts you for days. Makes you so angry that you wanna get a machine gun and kill a bunch of white trash scum. Disturbia in Suburbia in the extreme.