FYC: ESSENTIAL HORROR

By: spartac​ula

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: A WORK IN PROGRESS

The thing that hides in your closet and under your bed, the stuff night sweats are made of, the unexplainable and supernatural, monsters of all shapes and sizes, horrible circumstances beyond your control, body parts, things that go bump in the night… You get the idea… These are my favorites…

and the following are not on the ‘auteurs’ list yet…

- MAGIC (‘78) – Richard Attenborough
- THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING (’06) – Jonathan Liebesman
- AFTER INNOCENCE (‘05) – Jessica Sanders
- THE MAGICIAN (’26) – Rex Ingram

• 01
  Dead of Night
  Alberto Cavalcanti
• 02
  House on Haunted Hill
  William Castle
• 03
  Hannibal
  Ridley Scott
• 04
  Hannibal Rising
  Peter Webber
• 05
  Saw
  James Wan
• 06
  Hostel
  Eli Roth
• 07
  Pet Sematary
  Mary Lambert
• 08
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 09
  White Zombie
  Victor Halperin
• 10
  Nosferatu
  F.W. Murnau
• 11
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Rouben Mamoulian
• 12
  The Exorcist
  William Friedkin
• 13
  The Blair Witch Project
  Daniel Myrick
• 14
  The Devil's Rejects
  Rob Zombie
• 15
  28 Days Later
  Danny Boyle
• 16
  Jaws
  Steven Spielberg
• 17
  Hellraiser
  Clive Barker
• 18
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 19
  American Psycho
  Mary Harron
• 20
  Seven
  David Fincher
• 21
  Island of Lost Souls
  Erle C. Kenton
• 22
  The Mummy
  Karl Freund
• 23
  War of the Worlds
  Steven Spielberg
• 24
  Vacancy
  Nimród Antal
• 25
  Open Water
  Chris Kentis
• 26
  The Fly
  David Cronenberg
• 27
  Bram Stoker's Dracula
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 28
  Dracula
  Tod Browning
• 29
  Dead Ringers
  David Cronenberg
• 30
  Frankenstein
  James Whale
• 31
  Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  Kenneth Branagh
• 32
  Pit and the Pendulum
  Roger Corman
• 33
  The Thing
  John Carpenter
• 34
  In Cold Blood
  Richard Brooks
• 35
  The Phantom of the Opera
  Rupert Julian
• 36
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  Don Siegel
• 37
  The Most Dangerous Game
  Ernest B. Schoedsack
• 38
  Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
  Neil Jordan
• 39
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 40
  The Phantom Carriage
  Victor Sjöström
• 41
  The Fly
  Kurt Neumann
• 42
  King Kong
  Merian C. Cooper
• 43
  Cat People
  Jacques Tourneur
• 44
  Isle of the Dead
  Mark Robson
• 45
  The Body Snatcher
  Robert Wise
• 46
  Bedlam
  Mark Robson
• 47
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 48
  Night of the Demon
  Jacques Tourneur
• 49
  D.O.A.
  Rudolph Maté
• 50
  The Incredible Shrinking Man
  Jack Arnold
• 51
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 52
  Bug
  William Friedkin
• 53
  Donnie Darko
  Richard Kelly
• 54
  Jacob's Ladder
  Adrian Lyne
• 55
  The Crow
  Alex Proyas
• 56
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 57
  An American Werewolf in London
  John Landis
• 58
  Kwaidan
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 59
  Ring
  Hideo Nakata
• 60
  Three... Extremes
  Fruit Chan
• 61
  13 Ghosts
  William Castle
• 62
  Paisan
  Roberto Rossellini
• 63
  Angel Heart
  Alan Parker
• 64
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  Wallace Worsley
• 65
  Them!
  Gordon Douglas
• 66
  Eraserhead
  David Lynch
• 67
  Tarantula
  Jack Arnold
• 68
  I Walked with a Zombie
  Jacques Tourneur
• 69
  I Am Legend
  Francis Lawrence
• 70
  Ichi the Killer
  Takashi Miike
• 71
  The Devil's Backbone
  Guillermo del Toro
• 72
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 73
  Monkey Shines
  George A. Romero
• 74
  The Exorcism of Emily Rose
  Scott Derrickson
• 75
  House of Wax
  André De Toth
• 76
  The War of the Worlds
  Byron Haskin
• 77
  Godzilla
  Ishirô Honda
• 78
  Puppet Master
  David Schmoeller
• 79
  The Great Gabbo
  James Cruze
• 80
  Deliverance
  Satyajit Ray