100 Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time
70. The Bride Of Frankenstein
Four years after the first Universal Frankenstein movie was released, Boris Karloff donned his square head again and gained critical acclaim again with The Bride Of Frankenstein. It's unfortunate that a lot of that contemporary praise was tempered by caveats that "it's just horror, though," because Bride... is still a great watch.
It's deliciously camp and delightfully kitsch by modern standards, but its longevity comes down to its technical prowess, its style and how genuinely frightening it is. Whether you think it's better than the original doesn't really matter, but this is certainly more of a masterpiece in artistic terms: it's just hard to argue with the quality of the one that kicked it all off.
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69. Event Horizon
Nice.
Event Horizon might have been censored horribly to remove its most profoundly disturbing sequence, but Paul WS Anderson's gory tale of space possession still packs a fair old punch all the same.
The cast is incredible, but the most enjoyable and haunting element is Sam Neill as Dr Billy Weir, the titular ship's designer who - like the rest of the crew - is tormented by manifestations of his greatest trauma (his dead wife) and then ends up possessed by a demonic entity and terrorises his crew-mates. He's gloriously overblown and so is the gore, and while it's certainly not as accomplished as the Alien films, it's one of those sci-fi hororrs that really leaves a mark.
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68. Eyes Without A Face
One of the most divisive movies of the 1960s, but one that has since grown to be revered by critics, Georges Franju’s tale of body horror, Eyes Without a Face, is without doubt one of the most unnerving films from that decade.
Centred around a plastic surgeon who wishes to perform a face transplant on his daughter, Eyes Without a Face is one of the most influential films of all time, and includes one of the most disturbing images in horror history, which takes place during the aforementioned procedure.
Its influence goes without saying, but the fact that Eyes Without a Face still manages to scare so much even to this day, is a testament to how effective a film it truly is.
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