To me it feels right to start in 1968, when George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was born. The realistic, documentary feel of the black and white roller shocked many, did not get the better of the dead came to life and bare said on human flesh. Together with the sequels Dawn of the Dead - the best of the three - Day of the Dead created a trilogy, with the help of gore, social and human criticism still holds today. Even the remake of the first film stand to be seen, while of course parodies have seen the light (such as Return of the Living Dead series, Part III Review at). Night of the Living Dead brings me to American cinema's golden age: the seventies. Creativity flowed freely and everything seemed possible, before the hangover was raised several fine films were made.
The movie the Exorcist can not have escaped many, with its daring Exorcist scenes interspersed with realism and existential issues.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is perhaps the decade's best horror movie and a really good example of a horror film while commenting on his contemporaries. Despite its reputation is not very bloody, but the atmosphere is perfect when you get to follow the poor, redundant abattoir workers who have been going over to the human meat industry to survive.
Another movie that is hardly spoken of as the legend Wes Craven's debut Last House on the Left, where the hippie era's end allegorically depicted by the brutal and sadistic murder of two teenage girls. The movie Carrie is for sure worth watching, a well made piece based on Stephen King's first novel, it's about the telekineticly talented Carrie, her religious mother and bullies in high school.
Both Jaws and Alien, which came in the seventies is very much worth seeing, even if they, as monster movies with big-budget does not really fall into the same compartment as the others I have mentioned. Both Jaws and Alien had several sequels, but the only one that achieves the same class as its predecessors is James Cameron's action-adventure Aliens of 1986.
Cannibalism discussed in many more films than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one of the most talked about should be Ruggero Deodatos Cannibal Holocaust, which without all the animal violence would have been a pretty nice movie to watch. In its current form it's a shocking film that should not be seen by sensitive, or anyone ells for that mather - and definitely NOT by animal lovers!
That was just some of my favorite horror movies but I hope you found something you like!
The movie the Exorcist can not have escaped many, with its daring Exorcist scenes interspersed with realism and existential issues.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is perhaps the decade's best horror movie and a really good example of a horror film while commenting on his contemporaries. Despite its reputation is not very bloody, but the atmosphere is perfect when you get to follow the poor, redundant abattoir workers who have been going over to the human meat industry to survive.
Another movie that is hardly spoken of as the legend Wes Craven's debut Last House on the Left, where the hippie era's end allegorically depicted by the brutal and sadistic murder of two teenage girls. The movie Carrie is for sure worth watching, a well made piece based on Stephen King's first novel, it's about the telekineticly talented Carrie, her religious mother and bullies in high school.
Both Jaws and Alien, which came in the seventies is very much worth seeing, even if they, as monster movies with big-budget does not really fall into the same compartment as the others I have mentioned. Both Jaws and Alien had several sequels, but the only one that achieves the same class as its predecessors is James Cameron's action-adventure Aliens of 1986.
Cannibalism discussed in many more films than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one of the most talked about should be Ruggero Deodatos Cannibal Holocaust, which without all the animal violence would have been a pretty nice movie to watch. In its current form it's a shocking film that should not be seen by sensitive, or anyone ells for that mather - and definitely NOT by animal lovers!
That was just some of my favorite horror movies but I hope you found something you like!