griggs's - Horror Films (Available on Cinema Paradiso) Everyone Should Watch Once List
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Ravenous (1999)Voraz
It's a recipe for nonstop action and excitement when the inhabitants of an isolated military outpost go up against a marauding band of cannibals in a deadly struggle for survival! Boyd (Guy Pearce), Ives / Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle) and Cleaves (David Arquette) must fight brutal elements of the Siera Nevada wilderness - as well as their own murderous instincts - in this thrilling adventure. - Director:
- Antonia Bird
- Cast:
- Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)Dr. Phibes
Horror legend Vincent Price is Dr. Phibes, former musician, current murderer. Seeking revenge from the medical staff that left his wife for dead, he sets about knocking them off one-by-one in a series of elaborate murders based upon a Ten Plagues of Egypt. Death by bats, by boils, by blood and more await the nurse and surgeons who failed to save the life of the beloved Victoria Regina Phibes! - Director:
- Robert Fuest
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Paul Frees, Joseph Cotten
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Mr. Vampire (1985)Geung si sin sang
In a career-making performance, the late Lam Ching-ying is Master Gau, expert on all matters of the supernatural. When Gau and his two bumbling students, Man Choi (famous comedian Ricky Hui) and Chou (Fist of Legend's Chin Siu-ho), exhume a corpse for reburial, things go frighteningly and hilariously awry when the cadaver is revealed to be a hopping vampire. With the undead on the loose, Master Gau is blamed for the chaos, and must work with his students to put the spirits to rest before the vampire's own granddaughter (80's Hong Kong action icon Moon Lee) gets bitten. Fighting the vampires with everything from sticky rice to filing down the bloodsucker's fangs, the trio must defeat an increasing number of ghoulish dangers. - Director:
- Ricky Lau
- Cast:
- Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-hou Chin, Ricky Hui
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The Evil Dead (1981)Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead
Ever-present, ever-listening, the Evil Dead lie in wait for the one ancient incantation that will give them license to possess the living. Watch in horror as five vacationing college students unwittingly resurrect these slumbering demons, and are forced into battle with the supernatural forces that occupy the forests and dark bowers of man's domain. The innocent must suffer. The guilty must be punished. One-by-one, the students are possessed by these demons whose thirst for revenge is insatiable. As the night wanes, only one man remains... Ash. He must now defend himself while trying to uncover the horrible secret of The Evil Dead. - Director:
- Sam Raimi
- Cast:
- Bruce Campbell, Bob Dorian, Ellen Sandweiss
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Norah Palmer (Anna Cropper) is a television script editor who temporarily moves to a remote English country village to rebuild her life after a bad break-up. At first, she finds that the villagers are friendly, if a little eccentric. When she becomes pregnant to the handsome gamekeeper Rob, she begins to suspect the locals of conspiring against her, preventing her from leaving the village for her home in London. - Director:
- James MacTaggart
- Cast:
- Anna Cropper, Amanda Walker, Julian Holloway
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When young understudy Betty (Cristina Marsillach) takes the lead role in a new operatic production of Verdi's Macbeth, she soon attracts the attention of a knife-wielding psycho who forces her to watch - with eyes pinned open - as he brutally despatches her friends and colleagues with sadistic delight. Can Betty free herself from this unending nightmare or does a more terrifying fate await? - Director:
- Dario Argento
- Cast:
- Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini
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Bedevilled (2010)Kim Bok-nam salinsageonui jeonmal
When beautiful Hae-Won is forced to take a vacation she finds herself drawn to the island of Moodo, where she once spent an idyllic childhood holiday. On arrival she's reunited with her old friend Bok-Nam. Hae-Won soon realises that life on the island is far removed from the paradise that she remembers. Amidst the beautiful landscape and breathtaking scenery a vile and spiteful society has been allowed to co-exist. The hapless Bok-Nam is ritually abused by the male population and completely exploited by her female elders. When an attempt to escape results in the death of a loved one, Bok-Nam decides to take things into her own hands. With nothing left to live for and nothing left to lose, Bok Nam's reign of gruesome, blood drenched revenge begins. - Director:
- Cheol-soo Jang
- Cast:
- Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang
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Empire of Passion (1978)Ai no borei / In the Realm of Passion / Empire of Passion / Empire of the Passions / The Ghost of Love / Phantom Love
Set in rural Japan in 1895, a housewife, Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) has a torrid affair with a younger man, Toyoji (Tatsuya Fiji), a soldier recently returned from the first Chinese war. Following a passionate encounter when Toyoji shaves Seki's pubic hair, the couple decide that Seki's elderly husband Gisaburo (Takahiro Tamura) must die rather than discover their sordid secret. Having committed the murder and disposed of the body, then explain his absence by claiming that Gisaburo has departed for Tokyo to find work. Three years after his death, Gisaburo's ghost starts appearing to the lovers and other villagers. The threat of discovery and retribution heightens the murderers' guilty desperation and, perversely, their illicit passion. - Director:
- Nagisa Ôshima
- Cast:
- Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura
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After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Elizabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. 'Us' pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves. - Director:
- Jordan Peele
- Cast:
- Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss
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Down-on-their-luck punk rockers 'The Ain't Rights' agree to a last-minute gig in a backwoods Oregon roadhouse, only to find themselves targeted by a ruthless club owner and his associates, leading to devastating consequences. From the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier, "Green Room" is a claustrophobic thriller with a thick vein of dark humour... - Director:
- Jeremy Saulnier
- Cast:
- Anton Yelchin, Ed Squires, Imogen Poots
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Black Sabbath (1963)I tre volti della paura
"Black Sunday" was such a huge hit that a follow-up was swiftly demanded, and horror maestro Mario Bava duly devised this three-part horror anthology blending modern and period stories. In the giallo-style 'The Telephone', a woman is terrorised by her former pimp after his escape from prison, and tries to escape him with the help of her lesbian lover, who has a dark secret of her own. In the Victorian-era 'The Drop of Water', a nurse steals a ring from the corpse of a dead spiritualist, which naturally tries to get it back. But it's the 19th-century Russian story 'The Wurdalak' that comes closest to Bava's earlier classic, with the great Boris Karloff as a much-loved paterfamilias who might not be entirely what he seems. - Director:
- Mario Bava
- Cast:
- Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff
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A family must navigate their lives in silence to avoid mysterious creatures that hunt by sound. Knowing that even the slightest whisper or footstep can bring death, Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee (John Krasinski) are determined to find a way to protect their children at all costs while they desperately search for a way to fight back. - Director:
- John Krasinski
- Cast:
- Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
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The Orphanage (2007)El orfanato
Many years ago, Laura (Belén Rueda) left the orphanage where she had spent her childhood. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos (Fernando Cayo) and her young son Simon (Roger Príncep), with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. But the mysterious surroundings awaken Simon's imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales on not-so innocent games...As events take a sinister turn, Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family. - Director:
- J.A. Bayona
- Cast:
- Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep
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Plagued by the adolescent woes of biology, high school, dating and parents, the Fitzgerald sisters, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), are looking for something to stir up their mundane existence. However, they get more than they bargained for when Ginger is attacked by a snarling Rabid beast that generates a tremendous "change" in Ginger. The terrifying force quickly takes hold of Ginger's body and mind, threatening to destroy the sisters special bond and the lives of those around them. As Ginger becomes a ferocious She-Wolf who is out for blood, Brigitte races to devise a potion to rid Ginger of her demon. At the eleventh hour of Ginger's metamorphosis, the creature inside her takes over and finally turns on Brigitte. Who will triumph in this life and death struggle between the best of friends and the closest of sisters? - Director:
- John Fawcett
- Cast:
- Emily Perkins, Lucy Lawless, Katharine Isabelle
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Celia (1989)Celia: Child of Terror
Set in mid-1950's Australia, with the fear of Communism in the air and the country's farmlands overrun by a plague of rabbits, the film depicts a long, hot summer seen through the eyes and over-active imagination of nine year old Celia (Rebecca Smart). Shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, Celia finds herself adrift between the cruel games and rituals of childhood and the incomprehensible world of grown-ups. With monstrous creatures stalking her dreams by night, those imagined terrors blur by day with the banal brutality of the adult world leading to tragic and shocking consequences. - Director:
- Ann Turner
- Cast:
- Rebecca Smart, Don Kinsey, Dan Webb
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