100 Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time
67. Drag Me To Hell
If there's one thing you should learn from Sam Raimi's excellent Drag Me To Hell it's that no matter how much your bank manager boss is breathing down your neck, you should always give creepy looking hags loans. Preferably on favourable repayment terms.
Raimi's grim portrayal of a demonic curse has been called an allegory of eating disorders (and has equally been lambasted for lacking the charm of the Evil Dead movies), but even without the added weight, it's a great horror movie. It's a difficult watch, for sure, but that doesn't mean it loses anything in its quality. There are some truly creepy moments, there's complexity in the fact that the heroine isn't all that likable and the ending delivers a punch that is so unexpected that it leaves a mark.
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66. Creepshow
As far as horror anthologies go, they don’t get much better than Creepshow.
Directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King (King himself even has a starring role in the film), Creepshow is a homage to the classic horror comics of the 1950s and early 1960s, particularly in regards to DC’s Tales from the Crypt. Stories were also taken from King’s bibliography, but the fact remains that Creepshow is the horror movie for comic book fans to check out.
Creepy and entertaining all at once, there isn’t a horror movie quite like it.
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65. Inside (2007)
There's something about pregnant women in horror movies that just sets the nerves on edge. You don't want to see anything happen to a baby that isn't even born yet; a genuine human fear which Inside plays on in stomach-churning ways. A home invasion thriller about a woman who wants to steal another's baby while it's still in the womb, by cutting it out and taking it for herself, the premise alone is enough to make you squeamish.
The end result doesn't pull any punches either, depicting this grisly fight for survival - both for the mother and her child - in excruciating detail. By the end, the safety of this once-pristine house has been shattered, with nary a spot on the walls not covered in dark crimson. Seriously, if there's a film more caked in fake blood than this, I haven't seen it.
Just make sure you get the original, and not the dreadful American remake.
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