“The Strange World of Jack” from 1993, is a stop motion classic directed by Henry Selick based on drawings and a poem by Tim Burtonwho signed on as co-producer. The music and songs were written by Danny Elfman and over the years it became a cult film. Tells the story of Jack Skellingtonthe Lord of Halloween, who discovers Christmas and is fascinated until he decides to improve it. However, their vision of the holiday is totally contrary to the Christmas spirit. His plans include kidnapping Santa Claus and introducing macabre changes. Only his girlfriend Sally is aware of the mistake he is making. It can be seen by Disney+.
“The Hand that Rocks the Cradle”, from 1992, is a psychological thriller that shows a nanny with a thirst for revenge who seeks to destroy the life of her former boss. After losing her son and seeing her husband’s career ruined, this woman, masterfully embodied by Rebecca de Mornaydecides to take revenge Claire Bartelwhom he accuses of all his misfortunes. To do this, she manages to enter his house as a babysitter. Available for Disney+.
“Misery”, from 1990, is the film that launched Kathy Bates to stardom in her role as a psychotic and obsessed with her favorite book author, played by James Caan like Paul Sheldon, the combination between Paul Auster and Cindy Sheldon. Based on the classic Stephen King. It can be seen in Netflix along with all of King in that catalog.
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“Nosferatu” from 1922, is a true milestone in the horror and vampire genre. It was a success upon its release in 1922, praised for its visual effects and poetic scripts. A key work of German Expressionism, it is a covert adaptation of the Dracula of Bram Stoker. FW Murnau knew how to maintain the poetic ambiguity of the original text while constructing, with the terrifying figure of Max Schreckan icon of horror cinema. Like the great classics, the film works on several conceptual levels, but is sustained by its strength and visual beauty. “Here is the story of Dracula before he was buried alive in clichés, jokes, television parodies, cartoons and more than 30 other films,” he commented. Roger Ebert decades later, director of this year’s film“Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror”, with Willem Dafoe and others. Through YouTube and Amazon.
“Fatal Attraction” from 1987 is another classic romantic thriller with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close about the unfaithful husband and the disturbed lover who left history with the famous boiled rabbit scene. In Netflix.
“Ms .45”, from 1981, is a cult film of Abel Ferrara who tells the life of a mute seamstress who begins her revenge after being attacked twice, on the same day, on the streets of New York. Available in Youtube.
“Hocus Pocus”, from 1993, although it is not a horror film, it follows the story of the witches on Halloween and features the performances of Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker. It is a remembered Disney movie from the 90s that was boycotted by the company itself, being Halloween-themed but released at Christmas time. Despite the poor initial results, this film over time gained the affection of viewers to the point of becoming a film that is usually traditional on Halloween. It uses its magic and witchcraft themes well with some fun and evil witches, the Sanderson sisters. Available in Disney+ and Amazon.
“The Shining” from 1980 is a suspense classic with the odd Jack Nicholson as an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the caretaker of a historic hotel and moves his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son with him. Until a series of supernatural events drive him to the brink of madness. It can be seen in Prime Video.
“The Watcher in the Woods”from 1980, with Bette Davis as part of an American family that moves to England, where they rent a country house. Shortly after, the two daughters begin to suffer strange visions, due to the influence of the ghost of a girl who disappeared many years ago. By Prime Video.
“Amityville Horror” from 1979, directed by James Brolin about many houses and many murders. They say it is based on a real house. Available in Prime Video.
“Suspiria” from 1977, is a horror classic Dario Argento with the consecrated Udo Kier and Miguel Bose, about a young girl (Jessica Harper) who enters an exclusive dance academy the same night that one of the students is murdered. Little by little an unhealthy atmosphere takes over the place, and the dancer’s stay becomes a nightmare. It can be seen in Mubi and Prime Video.
“Carrie” from 1976 is a horror classic Brian DePalma with Sissy Spacek about a shy teenager who lives with her mother, a religious fanatic, and who is the object of constant ridicule from her schoolmates. When the girl suffers a hysterical attack when she has her first menstruation in the gym showers, some students decide to play a macabre prank on her during the graduation party. What everyone doesn’t know is that Carrie has telekinetic powers. It’s every teenager’s original nightmare. Available in Just Watch and Prime Video.
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“Young Frankenstein”from 1974, has a brilliant cast headed by Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, in a fun script Mel Brooks which shows the life of a young Frankenstein and his challenges in modern life. By YouTube, JustWatch and Amazon.
“The Exorcist” from 1973, is a horror classic William Friedkin with Linda Blair, Max Von Sidow and Ellen Burstyn, about a charming twelve-year-old girl who suffers from paranormal phenomena such as levitation or the manifestation of superhuman strength. Her terrified mother, after subjecting her daughter to multiple medical tests that offer no results, goes to a priest with psychiatry studies. Convinced that the evil is not physical but spiritual, he believes that it is a diabolical possession, and decides to perform an exorcism. Adaptation of the novel by William Peter Blatty which was inspired by a real exorcism that occurred in Washington in 1949. Available in Prime Video.
“Rosemary’s Baby”from 1968, remains unmatched in the category of psychological horror, with the signature of Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavettes. A New York couple who move to a building located in front of Central Park, on which, according to a friend, there is a curse. Once settled, they make friends with neighbors who shower them with attention. The Woodhouses decide to have a child but when Rosemary becomes pregnant, the only thing she remembers is making love with a strange creature that has left her body full of marks. As time goes by, Rosemary begins to suspect that her pregnancy is not normal. By Pluto TV.
“Wait in the dark,” from 1967, with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin about a man who meets a model on a plane. She carries a doll full of drugs and exchanges it for the gift doll that the man was carrying without him realizing it. Later, two criminals trying to recover the drugs meet in the photographer’s apartment with the criminal who killed the model for trying to betray him. By Prime Video.
“The birds” from 1963, is Alfred Hitchcock’s classic psychological horror where there are violent scares, birds gouging out people’s eyes and children being chased. Aesthetically perfect and existentially afraid. By Mubi.
“Freaks” from 1932, from Todd Browning, It is based on a circus full of deformed beings, cripples and people with various amputations. One of the dwarfs inherits a fortune and from that moment on, Cleopatra, a beautiful trapeze artist, will try to seduce him to get his money. To achieve his goal, he draws up a plan with the complicity of Hercules, the circus strongman. By YouTube and Mubi.
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