Top Ten Horror Films

As it's Halloween, here's a list of my current top ten Horror films in chronological order:

Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
The Uninvited (Lewis Allen, 1944)
Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson, 1945)
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980)

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Best First Viewings:

Picture Windows: Lightning (Joe Dante, 1995)

A Place Among the Dead (Juliet Landau, 2020)

The Ghost of Yotsuya (Kenji Misumi, 1959)

Sleepwalker (Saxon Logan, 1984)

Haunted Lighthouse 4-D (Joe Dante, 2003) 

Plan 9 from Outer Space (Edward D. Wood Jr., 1957)

Repeat Viewings:

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (Dominique Othenin-Girard, 1989)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932)

Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)

Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava, 1964)

The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932)

Notable Physical Media Releases:
Columbia Horror - Limited Edition (Powerhouse/Indicator)
The Ambulance (Eureka)
The Island (Eureka/Masters of Cinema)
Malpertuis (Radiance)
Daiei Gothic Vol 2 - Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)
The Diabolical Dr Z (Eureka)
Ms. 45 (Arrow)

Books Read:

Rosemary's Baby (BFI Film Classics) by Michael Newton

Lovecraft's Guide to Writing: A Collection of Essays by H.P. Lovecraft

Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (BFI Film Classics) by Kevin Jackson

"It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters." - Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

"It's a wonderful night. The darkness beckons to me. Another world. The world I see is far away, yet very near. A strange and beautiful world in which one may be dead and yet alive." - House of Frankenstein (1944)