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10 Horror Movies
#1 - February 2004
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1.The
Amityville Horror (1979)
If these
walls could talk... the screams would wake the dead. Based on
the chilling best-seller, this "spooky study in psychological
terror" throws open the doors to your darkest fears! The
Long Island colonial house on the river's edge seemed perfect.
Quaint, spacious and affordable, it was just what George and
Kathy Lutz had been looking for. But looks can be deceiving...
and their new dream home soon becomes a hellish nightmare as
the walls begin to drip blood and satanic forces haunt them
with sheer, unbridled evil. Now, with their lives - and their
souls - in danger, the Lutzes must run as fast as they can from
the home they once loved... or fall pret to its terrifying power!
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2.
Army Of Darkness (1993)
Listen
up you primitive screwheads! At long last, here lies the closest
thing to an "official" Directors cut of "Army"
that you'll ever find. Personally, I think there is always
some merit in any version of a film that preserves what the
makers intended. So, for your consideration, this is the real
film, complete with original ending, which I think is far
more appropriate.
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Army Of
Darkness
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3. 13
Ghosts (1960)
It's 13
times the thrills - 13 times the fun - 13 times the screams!
It's 13 Ghosts, a ghoulish fright-fest from producer/director
William Castle. When an eccentric uncle wills a huge, ramshackle
house to Cyrus (Donald Woods) and his impoverished family, they
get the shock of a lifetime. Their new residence comes complete
with a spooky housekeeper, Elaine (Margaret Hamilton), plus
a fortune in buried treasure and 12 horrifying ghosts. As the
terrified family soon discovers, these haunting ectoplasms include
a decapitated man, a wailing lady and a flaming skeleton, who
are held captive in the eerie house and must find an unlucky
13th to free them! Who'll be the final victim of these ghostly
shenanigans? See for yourself - if you dare!
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4.
House Of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Two
young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of
America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost
and stranded, they are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics.
Murder, cannibalism and satanic rituals are just a few of
the 1000+ horros that await. Written and directed by: Rob
Zombie and is a must for horror fans.
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5. Poltergeist
(1982)
"They're
here." And they seem almost whimsical at first, playing
stack-the-chair games in the kitchen of the Freelings' suburban
home. Then things turn darker. A storm erupts, a tree attacks,
little Carol Anne Freeling is whisked into a spectral void.
And as her family confronts a chain reaction of horrors and
fights to bring the youngster back, something else is here
too: a new benchmark in Hollywood ghost stories.
Producers
Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall and director Tobe Hooper
head the elite scream team of this spooktacular whose nerve-jangling
effects include floating phantasms, the fiercest monster ever
to pop out of a closet and an entire house collapsing into nothingness.
Welcome to Home Sweet Haunted Home.
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6.
The Shining (1980)
Think
of the greatest terror imagineable. Is it a monstrous alien?
A lethal epidemic? Or, as in this harrowing masterpiece from
Stanley Kubrick, is it fear of murder by someone who should
love and protect you - a member of your own family? From a
script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick
melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking
shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre.
In a signature role, Jack Nicholson ("Heeeere's Johnny!")
plays Jack Torrance, who's come to the elegant, isolated Overlook
Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelly Duvall)
and son (Danny LLoyd). Torrance has never been there before
- or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly warp of madness
and murder.
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7. House
On Haunted Hill(1959)
House
on Haunted Hill - where the host pays you to stay! There''ll
be no valets, no mints on pillows. But each guest receives a
much needed amenity: a tiny coffin... with a gun inside.
With it's
blood-curdling opening shriek, its twist-upon-twist finale,
House finds a home among the legends of the silver scream.
Vincent Price, the master of unctuous evil with credits from
the House Of Wax to Edward Scissorhands, is at
his oozily wicked best as a supremely wealthy man who invites
a handful of strangers to stay at an eerie abode that's been
the site of seven murders. Each guest who survives the night
will be rewarded $10,000. Any takers?
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8.
Hell Night(1981)
Pray
for day. As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity,
four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years
to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire
family. Two of the pledges, Marti (Linda Blair, The Exorcist)
and Jeff (Peter Barton), ignore the rumors that the now-deserted
mansion is haunted by a crazed killer, until one-by-one, members
of their group mysteriously disappear. Could this be part
of a fraternity prank or is a demented former tenant seeking
revenge?
When
their seemingly innocent rite of passage turns deadly, these
college students will do anything to survive Hell Night.
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9. A
Bucket Of Blood(1959)
A wimpy
busboy and would-be-sculptor who dreams of acceptance and success
has a peculiar "talent" for lifelike artwork accomplished
by moulding clay around corpses.
This movie
was made in just 5 days with a budget under $50,000 "A
Bucket Of Blood" is a clever semi-spoof of dead-bodies-in-the-wax-museum
gendre and succeeds nicely in capturing the spirit of the beatnik
era.
Showing
his true genius, director Corman manages to deliver an original,
expertly directed chiller, frank in its depiction of a troubled
impressionable mind.
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10.
Night Of The Living Dead
(1968)
Last
but not least.
Still
today "Night of the Living Dead" is one of the most
gruesome and terrifying films ever made.
Guaranteed
to frighten you out of your wits, this is the story of seven
people barricaded inside a farm-house while an army of flesh-eating
zombies roams the countryside Directed by genius George Romero.
An unrelenting shockfest that becomes a real cult classic.
"They won't stay dead!"
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