100 Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time
95. Dog Soldiers
Trapped in the Scottish highlands when a training exercise takes a turn for the worst, a military company have no idea what enemy they’re up against when their men start dying. Luckily, a rogue biologist emerges, leads them to a safehouse, and lets them know what’s up: Werewolves are loose. And they’re hungry.
Combining excellent practical effects with a pack of stalking predators, Dog Soldiers makes for some terrifying watching if you’re not prepared to see a hulking anthropomorphic wolf sneaking in through an open window and attempt to tear the inhabitants apart. Wildly underrated since release and as much an adrenaline rush as it is scary, Dog Soldiers stands up as a brilliant take on the classic movie monster. Just remember to pack your silver bullets.
[AM]
94. Carnival Of Souls
The best thing about Carnival of Souls is that unless you know in advance, it's difficult to pinpoint just when the film was made.
In one sense it's incredibly old-school, harkening back to the silent era with stark, black-and-white imagery and a plot about the afterlife that screams classic Hollywood, but in another it feels ahead of its time, similar to a low-budget indie that fully grasps the influences its attempting to ape.
It's that weird displacement of time and space that makes Carnival so incredibly eerie, even before you get to a ghostly figure haunting the dreamlike streets of Kansas, or repeated shots of the titular carnival on the edge of town, that both the audience and characters are strangely, inexplicably drawn to.
[JB]