Like Sam Raimi would many years later, Whale is able to get screams of fear and laughter out of the same action.
Even in 2021, many of its sequences still hold power.Īs director, James Whale shows an awe-inspiring control over tone, moving from scene to scene with a playful, self-satirizing wink. This great horror movie ancestor relies on an atmosphere of perversity and uncanniness to unsettle. Lights go out, doors are locked and secret rooms are discovered. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before - five travelers get caught in the rain and seek shelter in a creepy old house inhabited by a ghoulish family. One thing is for sure - all of them are perfect for Halloween viewing. I recognize that many readers may not enjoy scary movies, but I’m sure there’s something in the wide swath of film for everybody. From winking satire to unnerving nightmares, there are many masterpieces that deserve to be seen. While compiling this list of horror movies, I tried to glean from as many corners of the genre as possible.
The notion of fear and scary movies is subjective and what “spooks” someone else may not scare others. But, in my love of film, I’ve also sat through many gorefests, itching to grab at my phone. My first interaction with the genre of “scary movie” happened after my first watch of the animated film “101 Dalmatians,” waking up from a nightmare about the villian Cruella de Vil.
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