Village of the Damned(Wolf Rilla, 1960) As far as “British horror (wrapped in an SF bow), you can’t do much better.”.Stir of Echoes (David Koepp 1999) “An unsettling exploration of what happens when an ordinary blue-collar guy (Kevin Bacon) starts to see ghosts.”.Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957) “The horror here is pretty understated, until the very end.”.The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009).The Hitcher(Robert Harmon, 1986 and Dave Meyers, 2007) “Rutger Hauer in the original will never be topped, but this is that rarity, a reimagining that actually works.”.Anderson, 1997) “Basically a Lovecraftian terror tale in outer space with a The Quatermass Experiment vibe, done by the Brits.” Les Diaboliques(Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) “He out-Hitchcocked Hitchcock.”.Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971) “His most inventive film, and stripped to the very core.”.Dawn of the Dead(Zack Snyder, 2004) “Snyder’s zombies are, it seems to me: fast moving terrorists who never quit.”. Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015).The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999).The Autopsy of Jane Doe(André Øvredal, 2016) “Visceral horror to rival Alien and early Cronenberg”.Some may argue that the Clouzot film is better I beg to disagree.” “I am especially partial – this will not surprise you – to suspense films,” the author of Carrie, Cujo, and It writes by way of introduction,” but “my favorite film of all time – this may surprise you - is Sorcerer, William Friedkin’s remake of the great Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear. The list below combines King’s picks at Bloody Disgusting, which lean toward recent films, with a different selection of favorites, with a stronger focus on classics, published just last month at the British Film Institute. That same site has also published a list of fifteen horror movies King has personally recommended, Blair Witch and beyond. Though nobody seems to talk much about it anymore, let alone watch it, King’s appreciation has endured: he wrote the essay about it quoted here in 2010, and you can read it in full at Bloody Disgusting.
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