Art Horror
By: Josh Tierney
Every Halloween I’ll get together with some friends and dig into some bad old public domain horror films. Leading up to Halloween, however, I tend to watch horror films more in line with my usual tastes — thoughtful, experimental and ambitious.
Here are some films, presented in alphabetical order, which I like to think of as ‘art horror’ (well, John Carpenter’s The Thing is more of a bonus, a simply well-made horror film I can return to). These are horrors/thrillers seemingly made for film fans who don’t follow horror as much as they’d like to.
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01Brian De Palma
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02Paul Schrader
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03David Cronenberg
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04Ishirô Honda
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05Nobuhiko Obayashi
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06Kaneto Shindô
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07David Lynch
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08Charles Laughton
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09Antonia Bird
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10Stanley Kubrick
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11John Carpenter
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12Hiroshi Teshigahara