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CONTENTS
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HORROR: THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATION 8
25 greatest horror movies 16
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SLASHERS
Slasher School 28 Peeping Tom Vs Psycho 30 Friday The 13th 36 Scream 40 The 13 Franchises That Just Won’t Die! 44
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THE PARANORMAL AND THE OCCULT
Haunted Houses 52 The Blair Witch Project 54 True-life Horror 60 The Wicker Man 64 The Omen 66 Dario Argento 70
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Crimson Peak 16 The Witch 18 The Hallow 20 Victor Frankenstein 22 Pride And Prejudice And Zombies 23
POSTERS
Retro art revisited 24
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Hammer Horror and vampires
Dracula 76 Byzantium 80 Twilight 83 The Lost Boys 84 Let The Right One In 88 DVD Marathon 92
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Giant Monster Movies 96 Behind The Scenes Of The Asylum 98 Roger Corman 102 It 104 An American Werewolf In London 108 George Romero 110
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Hardcore, gore and video nasties Guide To Video Nasties 116 Saw 118 Eli Roth 122 Martyrs 124 Bruce Campbell 128 DVD Nasties 134 The Human Centipede 138
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THE 50 worst Horror FILMS Quiz 146
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GREATEST HORROR MOVIES EVER MADE edited by jamie graham words jonathan crocker, rosie fletcher, jamie graham, philip kemp, matthew leyland and jamie russell Voted by: Filmmakers Alexandre Aja (Switchblade Romance), Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage), Gregg Bishop (Dance Of The Dead), Deborah Brock (Slumber Party Massacre II), John Carpenter (Halloween), wes craven (a nightmare on elm street), Sean S Cunningham (Friday The 13th), Joe Dante (Gremlins), Michael Dougherty (Trick ’R Treat), Gareth Edwards (godzilla), Larry Fessenden (Wendigo), Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Amer), Adam Green (Hatchet), Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), John Landis (An American Werewolf In London), Pascal Laugier (Martyrs), Jennifer Lynch (Surveillance), Greg McLean (Wolf Creek), Neil Marshall (The Descent), Greg Nicotero (Scream, Drag Me To Hell – special make-up effects) Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003), Marc Price (Colin), matt reeves (Cloverfield), philip Ridley (Heartless), George Romero (Night Of The Living Dead), Eli Roth (Hostel), Simon Rumley (Red, White & Blue), Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project), Steven Sheil (Mum & Dad), Tom Six (The Human Centipede), Chris Smith (Severance), Zack Snyder (Dawn Of The Dead, 2004), Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), James Wan (Saw), Norman J Warren (Prey), James Watkins (The woman In Black), jake west (video nasties: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE), ti West (The House Of The Devil), Paul Andrew Williams (Cherry Tree Lane), Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead), Rob Zombie (Halloween) Icons Doug Bradley (Pinhead), Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface), Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees) Critics Steve Barton (DreadCentral.com), Axelle Carolyn (Author: It Lives Again!), Billy Chainsaw (Bizarre), Brian Collins (Bloody-Disgusting.com), Jennifer Eiss (Author: 500 Essential Cult Movies), Nigel Floyd (film critic), Sloan Freer (film critic), Bryn Hammond (GoreZone), Alan Jones (Author: Profondo Argento), Tim Lucas (Author: All The Colors Of The Dark), Steve Mandy (editor: the mammoth book of best new horror series), James Marriot (Author: 333 Films To Scare You To Death), Paul McEvoy (Horror Channel), Kim Newman (Author: Nightmare Movies), Jamie Russell (Author: Book Of The Dead), Mark Salisbury (FILM CRITIC), Jay Slater (author: Eaten Alive!: italian cannibal and zombie movies), Ryan ‘Rotten’ Turek (Shock Till You Drop.com) Total Film and sfx horror hounds Sam Ashurst, ian berriman, Rosie Fletcher, Jamie Graham, Matthew Leyland and Andy Lowe
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reatest Horror Movie lists are ten-apenny these days, so why do another one? Most self respecting horror fans already have a top ten etched in blood they’d fight to the death for. But then it became as clear as crystal lake. Why not compile the list to end all lists, the ultimate, definitive, granddaddy list – a Final Chapter so absolute there’s no room for sequels? And so we invited the very best in horror filmmaking to send in his or her Top 10 list, in order – we’d reward 10 points to the film at number one and one point to the film at
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number 10. Nearly every director approached was glad to participate, though squeezing their passion and knowledge into just 10 titles proved an ordeal: the lists swept in on a cacophony of grumbles. Of course, some directors insisted on final cut. Guillermo del Toro, for example, sent in 10 pairs of thematically twinned movies (and still he started his email with “Dear Total Film and SFX, Fuck you – This is an impossible task and a brutal one…”), while John Landis proclaimed to despise lists and instead sent through a bunch of titles he admires – no order, no set amount, take
it or leave it. We took it, gladly. But that wasn’t the end of it. Not content to settle for the expert opinions of Hooper, Roth, Zombie and 38 others, we then solicited lists from the genre’s most iconic monsters – Freddy (Robert Englund), Jason (Kane Hodder), Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), Pinhead (Doug Bradley) – and a host of genreexpert critics from around the globe. The result is a list collated from the opinions of the people who most know their horror. The arguments end here. Enjoy…
Top 25 greatest horror movies ever made!
25 The Devil’s Backbone 2001
Ghost house: an orphanage gets spooked in del Toro’s classic ghost story.
Score 26
“This is not a ghost story,” explained Guillermo del Toro. “It is a story with a ghost.” Soaked inside-out with eerie atmosphere, this ravishingly crafted love letter to Gothic romance captures the fear and confusion of childhood with a master’s touch. Trapping us in a crumbling school that’s home to a child abandoned by his parents during the Spanish Civil War, this brooding older brother to Pan’s Labyrinth subtly fuses Buñuelian black humour, political allegory and heartfelt horror. Like all the greatest scare-scholars, del Toro knows that the true monsters live within us. Definitive moment Those jars of deformed stillborn babies, pickled and preserved. Shudder.
24 Freaks 1932 Score 27
“Well,” said MGM chief Irving Thalberg when he read the script, “it’s horrible.” Horrible enough to make F. Scott Fitzgerald vomit. Horrible enough to make the UK ban it for 30 years. Tod Browning’s ’30s curio is a true midnight movie, recruiting a real-life sideshow of deformed circus performers (bearded lady, human skeleton, dwarfs, a half-boy) to tell a genuinely unsettling – and weirdly compassionate – tale of betrayal and blood. How often is it forgotten that the “freaks” are heroes and the grotesques are the “normal” folk? Unlikely to be remade by Michael Bay anytime soon. Definitive moment The terrifying, rainlashed finale as the “freaks” take revenge…
23 Carrie 1976
© Rex
Score 31
Horror gets premenstrual in this (bloody) brilliant adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling debut novel. Freaky-looking Sissy Spacek is Carrie, the highschool kid who dreams of being prom queen but harbours secret telekinetic powers that turn prom night into a bloodbath of raging hormones. Homing in on his heroine’s tortured psyche – not helped by her religious nut mom (Piper Laurie) – Brian De Palma delivers a humane horror full of pyrotechnic style and a shock ending to die for. “It’s the best thing along those lines since the shark leaped aboard in Jaws,” said critic Roger Ebert. Definitive momenT The incendiary finale. Burn, baby, burn!
22 Peeping Tom 1960 Score 35
Released the same year as Hitchcock’s Psycho, Michael Powell’s Technicolor slasher never got the respect it deserved. Hated by British critics at the time (“Shovel it up and flush it swiftly down the nearest sewer,” fumed The Tribune), its sordid tale of sex ’n’ psychosis just wasn’t cricket. But in retrospect it was quintessentially English, its world of Soho back streets and glammed-up tarts the perfect setting for a movie not just about peeping but filmmaking too. “I think the camera is very frightening,” reckoned Powell. Watch, look, cower… Definitive moment The creepy home-movie reel. Witness the birth of a killer. >>
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Family strife: Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie grieve for their daughter in Don’t Look Now.
21 Don’t Look Now 1973 Score 37
“The premise is ‘Nothing is what it seems’,” mused director Nicolas Roeg of his foreboding masterpiece. Venice then, the city of masks, was the perfect backdrop for this wistful tale of grief, premonition and macintoshed mayhem. Red. Smashed glass. Water. Recurrent, fractured images piece together to culminate in a horrific revelation for Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie’s bereaved parents… Yet the genius is in the journey(s), physical (dashing through a maze of masonry) and emotional (the most tender, erotic love scene in the movies). Definitive moment That ending, made all the more shocking because it packs real emotional whallop.
20 Bride Of Frankenstein 1935 Score 40
James Whale didn’t want to direct a sequel to his own monster hit, but implored by Universal, he caved in, with a mind to make “a hoot”. Bride is certainly funnier than Frankenstein, flirting with self-parody but without ripping out its heart. As for the title character (a mate for Boris Karloff’s Monster), Elsa Lanchester’s climactic entrance makes up for lost time with a startling swan-inspired hiss and a zigzag hairdo. Fangirls had a Halloweenparty look for the ages… Definitive moment “She’s alive! Alive!” Here comes the Bride…
19 The Omen 1976 Score 41
A screenplay titled The Antichrist had been rejected all over town. Step in director Richard Donner… “I wanted to eliminate the obvious because there were cloven hoofs and devil-gods and covens,” he said. By so doing he birthed The Omen, and his straight-faced approach to the nutty subject matter – son of Gregory Peck’s diplomat is Satan reborn! – lends the film its force. Of course, it helps when you have Atticus Finch to call on and Jerry Goldsmith’s thunderous Oscar-winning score. Spawned two “proper” sequels (decent), a belated, made-for-TV fourth installment (bad) and a remake (noxious). Definitive moment David Warner loses his head. In slo-mo.
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17 Rosemary’s Baby 1968 Score 45
18 The Wicker Man 1973 Score 42
“We had to be very careful because he was in there and it was actually burning,” remembers director Robin Hardy. But there’s much more to The Wicker Man than maybe the greatest finale in horror history. Pagan rituals, bawdy dances and Britt Ekland’s arse all wait for Edward Woodward’s God-fearing copper on the island of Summerisle. Anthony Shaffer’s intelligent script, indelible imagery and suitably florid turns from Woodward and Christopher Lee make for an occult classic that deserves to be worshipped. Definitive moment “Oh Lord, Oh Jesus Christ!”
Damning “the perverted use that the film makes of Christian beliefs and its mockery of religious persons and practices”, the US Roman Catholic Office for Motion Pictures slammed Roman Polanski’s disturbing mystery with a C-for-condemned rating in 1968. As recommendations go, that’s a cracker. Twisting virgin birth into Satanic end-of-days, it’s a masterclass in cinematic suspense. Set in broad daylight and unfolding like a happy-couple drama, the film draws a magnificent performance from Mia Farrow while pumping the paranoia until your cranium throbs. And it’s all so terrifyingly believable… Definitive moment Raped by Lucifer? Please God, let it be a dream…
Top 25 greatest horror movies ever made!
16 The Haunting 1963
PERSONAL BESTS
Score 48
According to Martin Scorsese, the scariest movie ever made. Four people come to investigate a creepy old house that’s “born evil” – and one of them it destroys. “Show them nothing,” observed writer Nelson Gidding, “that was the challenge.” Shot in a Victorian-gothic monstrosity of a house and filmed in widescreen black-and-white, director Robert Wise uses just music, sound effects and spooky camera angles to shred our nerves. Remade – atrociously – by Jan de Bont in 1999. Definitive moment As the four cower together, some unseen force makes a massive wooden door bulge inwards.
In all cases where there are more than one version but a date hasn’t been included, it’s the good version! George Romero
15 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Score 52
Zack Snyder
Joe Dante
Guillermo del Toro
Eli Roth
1 The Innocents 2 Psycho 3 The Exorcist 4 Blood And Black Lace 5 Bride Of Frankenstein 6 The Body Snatcher 7 The Black Cat 8 Night Of The Demon 9 Masque Of The Red Death 10 The Seventh Victim
1 Frankenstein/Bride Of Frankenstein 2 The Birds/Jaws 3 The Shining/The Innocents 4 Vampyr/Nosferatu 5 Alien/The Thing 6 Night Of The Hunter/ Don’t Look Now 7 The Tenant/Possession 8 Martin/Let The Right One In 9 Shivers/Night Of The Living Dead 10 Eraserhead/The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
14 The Innocents 1961 Score 65
Yeah, that title’s ironic. Blurring the natural and the supernatural until you can’t see the difference, director Jack Clayton, screenwriter Truman Capote and cinematographer Freddie Francis craft one of the most surprising, scary films ever made. Deborah Kerr is the repressed governess faced with two alarming little children (Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin) and some menacing unseen forces. The performances are astonishing. The photography is breathtaking. The peripheral fear just grows and grows. Definitive moment The kiss between Stephens and Kerr still shocks.
1 Carrie 2 An American Werewolf In London 3 The Thing 4 Dawn Of The Dead 5 Don’t Look Now 6 Halloween 7 The Wicker Man 8 Suspiria 9 The Brood 10 Evil Dead II
1 Alien 2 The Shining 3 The Thing 4 The Exorcist 5 The Fly (’86) 6 Jacob’s Ladder 7 Altered States 8 The Wicker Man 9 Deliverance 10 Jaws
Pretending to be real and backed up by a pioneering marketing campaign, the lo-tech, no-budget Blair Witch scared audiences shitless before they’d even bought a ticket. On screen the horror’s just as smart: fear is conjured out of sticks ’n’ stones and improvised performances as docu filmmakers are menaced by unseen evil in the Maryland woods. “We used every trick in the book to make it absolutely real,” says director Eduardo Sanchez. “Including making the actors shoot the whole damn movie themselves.” Definitive moment Snotty doc-director Heather Donahue delivering her direct-to-camera freak out.
Tobe Hooper
1 Psycho 2 The Exorcist 3 The Haunting 4 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (’56) 5 Frankenstein 6 The Devil’s Backbone 7 Pulse 8 Night Of The Demon 9 Mask Of The Demon 10 Suspiria
13 An American Werewolf In London 1981
Wes Craven
1 Nosferatu 2 The Exorcist 3 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4 Man Bites Dog 5 The Omen 6 The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (’39) 7 Frankenstein 8 The Tenant 9 Repulsion 10 Rosemary’s Baby
Score 67
“I read the script and there were just a few sentences that said, ‘David turns into a werewolf,’” remembers actor David Naughton. “And I thought, ‘Ooh, I wonder what that’s like?’” The rest is bloody, brilliant history, effects maestro Rick Baker conjuring a spectacularly painful transformation of Naughton from scrawny Yank to furry, fanged beast that’s still never been be(a)sted. Same goes for John Landis’ gory crossbreed of horror and comedy – it remains as funny, frightening and deceptively clever as ever. Definitive moment Man... Wolf... Wolf-Man. All fully lit. Extraordinary.
Edgar Wright
1 The Thing From Another World 2 The Innocents 3 Repulsion 4 Cat People 5 Jaws 6 Alien 7 Poltergeist 8 Frankenstein 9 Bride Of Frankenstein 10 Cult Of The Cobra
1 Pieces 2 The Wicker Man 3 Alien 4 Zombie Flesh Eaters 5 The Evil Dead 6 Cannibal Holocaust 7 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 8 The Shining 9 Ju-On (2000) 10 Who Can Kill A Child?
John Carpenter
1 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 Suspiria 3 Psycho 4 The Exorcist 5 Night Of The Living Dead 6 The Mummy (’59)
John Landis
1 The Exorcist No order: Frankenstein; Bride Of Frankenstein; The Old Dark House; The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; The Thing; The Fly (’86); The Phantom Of The Opera (’25); Island Of Lost Souls; Psycho; Repulsion; Kwaidan; Onibaba; Kuroneko; The Innocents; The Haunting; Night Of The Living Dead; The Devil’s Backbone
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FEAR BY YEAR
The vote broken down into Decades… Films in the overall vote 1920s 1930s 2010s
1940s 1950s
2000s 1990s
11 Night Of The Living Dead 1968
1960s 1970s
1980s
Score 83
12 Frankenstein 1931 Score 68
1920s 2 films 1930s 10 films 1940s 9 films 1950s 11 films 1960s 22 films
1970s 45 films 1980s 46 films 1990s 25 films 2000s 29 films 2010s 3 films
Films in the top 50 1990s
2000s
1920s
1930s
“I felt sorry for the goddamn monster,” said James Whale’s boyfriend David Lewis after Whale had given him Mary Shelley’s novel to read. It was the key that Whale needed. Pounced on as a subject by Universal, who had just scored a big hit with Dracula, the film was intended to scare the pants off audiences – but Whale saw through the horror to the pathos. Aided by Boris Karloff’s moving performance and Jack Pierce’s masterly make-up, he created one of cinema’s most unforgettably iconic figures – endlessly sequelised, imitated and spoofed ever since. Definitive moment The Monster plays rough, plucking up a small child and throwing her into a lake.
Made for $114,000 and written off by the New York Times as “a grainy little movie,” Dead launched the modern, gut-munching zombie flick. Eschewing any supernatural origins and focusing on a resourceful black hero, this is a horror film for its era: JFK’s assassination, ’Nam, the Civil Rights struggle (“It was ’68,” said director George Romero, “everyone had a message”). The black-and-white, 16mm footage gives it a vérité feel as the American Dream descends into the American Nightmare. Definitive moment The BBQ chow down proves meat really is murder...
1940s 1950s
1980s
1960s
1970s
1920s 1 film 1930s 3 films 1940s 1 film 1950s 2 films 1960s 12 films
10 Suspiria 1977 1970s 16 films 1980s 11 films 1990s 3 films 2000s 1 film
Films in the Top 50 by country France germany
UK italy
USA
USA 37 films Italy 6 films UK 5 films France 1 film Germany 1 film
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Score 94
“I like women, especially beautiful ones,” Italian horror maestro Dario Argento once claimed. “I’d much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.” He’s true to his word in Suspiria, a brutal blend of witchcraft and serial slaying that terrorises its core cast of pretty ballerinas. Argento treats every startle, scream and stabbing like high art, the Technicolor splatter shot through anamorphic lenses and lit in psychedelic primary colours while synth noisemongers Goblin go mental on the soundtrack. The Red Shoes reworked for the Zombie Flesh Eaters crowd… Definitive moment Two girls’ danse macabre in the opening ceiling plunge.
9 Dawn Of The Dead 1978 Score 96
Fresh brains on aisle 5: Romero’s drop dead z-flick combines outrageous splatstick with a social commentary so simple even the zombies get it. Ketchup splatter from makeup man Tom Savini turns the stomach as exploding heads and helicopter scalping dismayed the MPAA. But the gore’s more funny than nasty. “I’ve had people come to me and say, ‘Dawn Of The Dead scared the crap out of me!’” laughs Romero. “But to me it’s not a scary film at all. It’s almost a balls-out comedy. It’s a comic book…” Definitive moment Doing “The Gonk” on the shopping mall escalators.
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