100 Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time
61. Sinister
Whilst Sinister might not be the perfect horror movie, it’s a far better put together one than some would have you believe. Telling the tale of a writer who moves into the house of a terrible crime in an attempt to cash in on a true story, he soon discovers a box of snuff tapes in the attic that connect the house to a much more terrifying, and supernatural, reality.
The effect of Sinister lies unarguably in its sound design, created using distorted voices and warped ambient sound that make it nothing other that disturbing to listen to. A film that can make you viscerally feel fear through horrible audial tones is an impressive one at the very least.
[AM]
60. Creep
Low budgets and successful horrors seem to inspire great marriages. The Blair Witch cost a pittance, Paranormal Activity hardly broke the ban and Patrick Brice's Creep slots in alongside them in terms of cost versus quality.
His creepy tale of a videographer who finds himself pulled into the weird life of Mark Duplass' Josef is suspenseful, tense and deliciously strange, with Duplass on incredible form. The whole thing is a perfect exercise in restraint: it shoots for realism, it's short and it never goes for the cheap scares or lashings of blood. More than anything, it feels grotesquely possible that this could actually happen.
Great sequel too.
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59. Blade
A movie that doesn’t get its due for blazing a trail for future superhero movies, 1998’s Blade also doesn’t get enough recognition for its work as a horror movie either.
The vampiric world of Blade is gloriously fleshed out, showing us a hierarchical society that the younger, non-pure-bloods are looking to strip down. And caught up in all of this is a vampire who can walk in the daylight.
A great spin on the mythos, and featuring superb performances from Wesley Snipes in the title role and Stephen Dorff as villain Deacon Frost, Blade is a brilliantly dark, blood-soaked, visceral action horror.
[JH]