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(#10) The Cremator
- Rudolf Hrušínský, Jiří Menzel, Míla Myslíková, Vladimír Menšík, Jiří Lír, Ilja Prachař, Helena Anýžová, Vlasta Chramostová, Eduard Kohout, Marie Rosůlková, Jana Stehnová, Jindřich Narenta, Václav Štekl, Zora Božinová, Miloš Vognič
This one can definitely be qualified as art house. The 1969 Czechoslovakian film involves a man working at a crematorium who enjoys reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead and believes that cremation relieves earthly suffering. The Cremator combines black comedy with surrealist cinema to make an interesting and unique experience.
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(#2) Village of the Damned
- George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Martin Stephens
Though John Carpenter's 1995 remake left much to be desired, the original remains a great film. Telepathic children from space are all the more creepy when given British accents. These kids can take control of people and make them do whatever they want. Often what they want is murder. Using the tropes of science fiction common to the day, this story transcends the creature features of the 50s in a genuinely scary movie. Village of the Damned is definitely an intellectual horror tale with quality acting and solid cinematography.
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(#3) The Masque of the Red Death
- Vincent Price, Jane Asher, Hazel Court, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee, Robert Brown, Gaye Brown, Paul Whitsun-Jones, David Davies, David Weston, Verina Greenlaw, Julian Burton, Skip Martin, Brian Hewlett, Doreen Dawn
This Vincent Price film is a masterful adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story of the same name. The Masque of the Red Death centers around a despotic prince whose kingdom is gripped by the Red Death plague. The style is reminiscent of Shakespeare, with a touch of Satanism thrown in. With opulent costume parties, Satanic rituals, and a disease that makes you bleed from your pores, this film has it all.
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(#4) The Last Man on Earth
- Vincent Price, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Umberto Raho, Carolyn De Fonseca, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Antonio Corevi, Christi Courtland, Ettore Ribotta, Giuseppe Mattei, Rolando De Rossi
Based on the novel I am Legend, this film features Vincent Price fighting living-dead vampires long before Will Smith ever took up the part in the 2007 remake. The story follows Price as he goes through his daily routine as the last living human. Wake up, go murder some vampires, get back to shelter by night, repeat. The loneliness of losing his wife and daughter during the outbreak is as much of a threat as the vampires themselves. In The Last Man on Earth, we see a man struggling just to get by, and it raises the question, what makes a man?
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(#13) Bloody Pit of Horror
- Mickey Hargitay, Femi Benussi, Alfredo Rizzo, Roberto Messina, Walter Brandi, Nando Angelini, Ralph Zucker, Gino Turini, Barbara Nelli, Luisa Baratto, Albert Gordon, Moa Tahi, Rita Klein
The title says it all. This is a gore-fest from back when the trope was first invented. The Italian film involves a group of models who go to an old castle to shoot some sexy horror novel covers. There they encounter an insane executioner in tights with tastes similar to those of the Marquis de Sade. Bloody Pit of Horror combines gore and erotic fan service in a way that only the campy horror of the 1960s can.
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(#6) Kuroneko
- Eimei Esumi, Nakamura Kichiemon II, Mutsuhiro Toura, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Hideo Kanze, Kei Sato, Kiwako Taichi, Kentaro Kaji, Shoji Oki
This 1968 Japanese horror involves a ghost who has been ripping out the throats of samurai in medieval Japan. A samurai is dispatched to stop the spirit, but he must face his own past to do so. This Criterion Collection film is extremely sexual, and surprisingly feminist for the time. Combining a complex plot with eerie cinematography, Kuroneko remains one of the best examples of Japanese horror.
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Horror movies make the audience feel the excitement of supernatural forces and monsters through images or stories. The earliest horror films were heavily influenced by literature and drama. With different times and regions, the characteristics of horror movies are also different. The horror films of the 1960s gradually deviated from their interest in the supernatural and turned to scare the audience with human psychopaths.
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