But writer-director Neil Marshall’s second feature took that truism to disturbing new depths, sending his all-female ensemble down into a cave far beneath the earth’s surface. Image Credit: Lions Gate/Everett CollectionĪs a rule, no good ever comes from trekking out into nature in a horror movie. Ulmer finding exactly the right blend of campiness and creepiness. “Baloney…perhaps not!”) Revenge, black masses, a homoerotic skin-flaying sequence and some of the most Expressionistic set design this side of Doc Caligari’s office are on deck, with director Edgar G.

(“Supernatural, perhaps,” intones Lugosi. It seems the latter sent his thick-accented buddy to a Siberian gulag after World War I and married the man’s wife the estate’s master may also dabble in what Manners dubs “supernatural baloney” in his spare time.

Having already made horror-movie stars out of Bela “Dracula” Lugosi and Boris “Frankenstein’s Monster” Karloff, Universal decided: Why not pair these icons together for double the shrieks? Like its unofficial companion piece The Raven (1935), this inaugural team-up is based loosely - very loosely - on an Edgar Allan Poe work, and finds Lugosi accompanying newlyweds David Manners and Julie Bishop to a castle in Hungary, owned by his old “friend” Karloff. Image Credit: Abramorama/Everett Collection Even more chilling to modern audiences, however, is the dire ecological ending: The blob can be contained if Antarctica remains frozen and intact. Uh-oh. (So it’s a force that keeps spreading and consuming everything in its path? Hmm.). Similar to most 1950s movies, the air of the Cold War hangs heavy above this one. Despite their pleas to the town’s jaded adults, they aren’t believed until it’s too late. Then they see a comet streak across the sky, at which point the title “character” emerges to consume a man in front of them. A romping teen flick with beach movie vibes - there’s even a catchy theme song by Burt Bacharach and Mack David - it kicks off with Steve Andrews (a still very green Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend Jane (Aneta Corseaut) cruising the Pennsylvania countryside. Say that 101 times in a row, and you may just it make through this list… alive!ĭirector Irvin Yeaworth’s kitschy, low-budget creature feature about an amorphous, man-eating hunk of Jello from outer space is pure B-movie heaven. Just remember, as you read this list: It’s only a movie. So we’ve gathered all of the old-school monster movies and modern serial-killer thrillers, the creature features and the slasher flicks, the canon-worthy creepfests from Universal and Hammer and A24, and come up this definitive list (or our definitive list, at least) of the greatest the genre has to offer. Naturally, everyone who helped cobble together the 101 best horror films of all time like scary movies. If you can count on the movies for anything, it’s that there seems to be an exhaustible supply of scares. Then, just when you think it’s safe to go back to the theater, something else comes along that reminds us that there are always new ways to come us screaming in the dark. And over the past 100-plus years, the art form has figured out almost every possible way to frighten us, unnerve us, make our hair stand on us, chill us, thrill us and touch upon our most primal of fears. Of course you do! Freaking out with your fellow audience member when something shocking happens, or jolting together as one during a primo jump scare, is one of the great pleasures of going to the movies.

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