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10 BEST ADULT HORROR FILMS FOR THE TERRIFIED INNER-CHILDAug 28 '05 Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line Avoid the remakes and get to the root of all evil with these ten masterful horror films. Can't quite understand what the kids find so scary about maimed body organs and cannibal cookouts? Dozing off at the latest special effects-laden horror flick? Feeling too old to scream, but not too old to fear? Check out these classic horror films to reveal your frightened inner-child while not insulting your wizened maturity. DRACULA (1931) A rolling fog, a mysterious castle, frightened villagers, and enough vampires to start a blood bank, this creepy atmospheric early film may be short on jump-in-your-seat scares but possesses an unnerving lingering quality. THE EXORCIST (1973) A head-spinning, puke discharging, foul mouthed little girl with a fondness for crucifixes may not be your worst nightmare, but the very serious exorcism scenes will arouse and shake your spiritual and religious roots, and this classic film contains one of movie history's best lines which certainly can't be printed here. THE HAUNTING (1963) Classic haunted house flick from the Shirley Jackson novel, in which the 'fear factor' is never seen, but heard in heart-pounding sound, and felt, in psychological suspense in the haunted corridors of Hill House. THE INNOCENTS (1961) Finally available on DVD as of September 2005, this psychological ghost story from the Henry James novella, "Turn Of The Screw", stars Deborah Kerr as the governess of two presumed possessed children in a dark English manor haunted by truly 'invisible' ghosts. Proves what lurks in the mind is more frightening than the physical realm. JAWS (1975) Not only did people stop swimming in the ocean with the release of this film, it unnerved enough to make them stay out of their own swimming pools! Fantastic entertainment has supreme horrific moments with one of the planet's most reliable frightening creatures. PSYCHO (1960) Here's my story. I was a 10-year old who snuck out of bed to watch a televised version of this Alfred Hitchcock classic on a late movie, and when it was over, I had to make the impossible journey back to bed through a darkened house where every shadowed object was a madman with a knife. Finally safe in my bed, I went straight into a nightmare. ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) Roman Polanski horror vehicle brings new insight to the 'what-if' abortion agenda. Intense suspense and spooky atmosphere in a modern day setting where a witch's cocktail party may include Satan himself. Filmed with an artist's eye for beauty and horror. THE TENANT (1978) Roman Polanski in drag is scary by any means, but his film of an innocent's descent into madness is perfectly frightening, as it begs for delusion to be merely horrific, while keeping viewer's on the edges of their unbalanced seats. THE UNINVITED (1944) Old fashioned haunted house film about a dead mom appearing nightly in a picture window to warn her daughter against 'something'. Could be cynical commentary about the new medium of television, but it is certainly is a modest, entertaining bit of spookery. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) Whatever happened? She became a psychotic lunatic as only the elder Bette Davis can do. Joan Crawford and Davis chew apart the scenery in this outlandish nail-biter with a bizarre Hollywood-Babylon child star horrific edge. Cool and macabre.  |
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