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You can't go wrong with:
1) John Carpenter's The Thing- landmark special effects, eerie score, and the frozen landscape still gives me the creeps. My favorite remake of all time
2) Cannibal Holocaust- brutal, brutal, brutal.....the ultimate exploitation film..everyone is exploited here, the actors, the animals, the audience...makes my list for sheer jaw-dropping,
stomach-lurching shock value.
3) Re-Animator- This film has held up amazingly well. Funny,
dark, shocking and twisted.
4) The Evil Dead/Evil Dead II- yeah, I know, 2 films, but they are pretty much the same movie and I like them both.
5) Nightmare on Elm Street- the remakes have probably hurt the reputation and impact of this one, but when it was first released it scared the hell out of me.
6) Day of the Dead- Romero keeps to a small scale for this sequel. An underated film in my opinion.
7) The Hunger- I'm a big Bowie fan so I may be a little biased on this one......also contains a memorable love scene between Susan Sarandan and Catherine Deneuve:)
8) The Beyond- Fulci may not be able to carry a narrative, but
he always creates a few stunning scenes and great atmosphere. This may be his best..
9) Aliens- "action" horror doesn't get much better than this.
10) Humanoids from the Deep- this one was just too much fun to leave off my list.
also loved: The Stepfather, The Hitcher, Santa Sangre, The Funhouse, Near Dark, Alligator, Videodrome, The Fly, Fright Night, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Hellraiser, Return of the Living Dead, Poltergeist, The Howling and Cannibal Ferox.
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