griggs's - Horror Films (Available on Cinema Paradiso) Everyone Should Watch Once List

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In 1982, legendary horror masters Stephen King and George A. Romero conjured up five terrifying tales, each a ghoulish tribute to the classic E.C. comics of the 1950s. A murdered man emerges from the grave for Father's Day cake. A meteor's ooze makes everything...grow.

A professor selects his wife as a snack for a created creature. A scheming husband plants two lovers up to their necks in terror. A malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia becomes the prey of a cockroach army.

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Recently released from prison, the nomadic Henry (Michael Rooker) finds temporary abode in the rundown Chicago lodgings of a former jail acquaintance and small-time drug dealer, Otis (Tom Towles).

Hiding behind his unremarkable employment as a pest exterminator, Henry leads a double life, prowling the streets by night on a brutal and apparently motiveless killing spree. As the bodies mount up, Otis finds himself inducted into Henry's dark secret world, but when Otis' sister Becky (Tracy Arnold) moves in, herself fleeing from an uncomfortable domestic situation, it quickly becomes apparent that two's company, but three's a crowd.

Two girls living in the same apartment, sleeping with the same man, and auditioning for the same film role soon come to blows. Using an array of household appliances as weapons, the aspiring actresses beat each other senseless until one eliminates her competition for good.

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Billy Hughes (Marina Sudina) is a mute special effects artistworking on a low budget American slasher movie being shot in Russia. Accidentally locked in the studio late one night, she stumbles upon two men shooting what appears to be a snuff film.

Having borne witness to their victim's final moments, Billy desperately flees-but this is only the start of a protracted night of terror, drawing her and herfriends into a tangled web of intrigue, involving the KGB, the Moscow police...and a mysterious crime kingpin known as "The Reaper" (Alec Guinness).

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An evil blob-like extraterrestrial has come to earth with nefarious intentions. Luckily some good aliens are on its trail: a man, a woman, and - of course - their fluffy black cat. With wonderful pre-CGI special effects (i.e.

rubber galore) and some truly bonkers action (watch out for that cat!), 'The Cat' is part horror, part sci-fi and all WTF? The sane and rational folks at 88 Films are proud to present your new favourite crazy movie.

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A chatty, worm-like parasite offers the utmost psychedelic experiences to its host if they allow him to latch onto their necks and inject their brains with a bizarre secretion.

For Brian this trip is better than his dull life, but in order to maintain the buzz, he must provide this parasite with its favourite food - human brains.

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The first and possibly the greatest pairing of Lugosi and Karloff is one of the darkest, most macabre horrors ever made. Dr.

Werdegast (Bela Lugosi), a POW for fifteen years has been freed and now seeks news of his wife and daughter and vengeance on Hjalmar Poelzig, the man whose betrayal lead to his imprisonment and the deaths of thousands of his countrymen during the war. He tracks him down to the castle he has built on the site of their old fortress and soon discovers the diabolical secrets held within its walls. Poelzig is now the leader of a satanic cult, engaging in macabre practises and rituals. One man's pure evil against the others tormented need for revenge leads to an absorbing battle and a shocking climax.

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A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blood and hunger for human flesh.

From Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, the writers of 'American Graffiti', 'Indiana Jones' and the 'Temple of Doom' and 'Howard the Duck', this dreamy and atmospheric film transposes the post - 'Night of the Living Dead' zombie movie to a surreal small-town American setting, presented through gorgeous Techniscope visuals that echo the stylish European horror of Mario Bava and Hammer. A true cult film, 'Messiah of Evil', which was also released as 'Dead People', has overcome distribution challenges to enjoy growing awareness and high acclaim after decades of word-of-mouth enthusiasm among horror cinema fans and critics around the world.

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Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, a man who has to confront the legend of the axe-wielding headless horseman in order to win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel. Set in 1799, "Sleepy Hollow" is based on Washington Irving's classic tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Faithful to the dreamy custom-bound world that Irving paints in his story, the film mixes horror, fantasy and romance, and features an extraordinary cast of characters who dabble in the supernatural.

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Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) is high-school teacher, a car-crash victim who wakes up from a 5-year coma with the ability to see into people's future. Consequently this extra sensory perception enables Johnny to avert several potential disasters and earns him a degree of local celebrity.

After his 5 missing years however, Johnny has lost both his job and his fiance and he longs for his former existence without his new 'gift'. That is until he meets with a local politician and would-be Presidential candidate Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) and sees future events of genuinely catalysmic proportions. It is only then that Johnny must come to terms with his powers, his conscience, and his destiny.

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When Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle box he enters the world of the Cenobites. A world where these cruel sadists thrive on pain. Later, restored to life by the blood of his brother Larry (Andrew Robinson), Frank rises to feed on the life force of others.

When Larry's wife agrees to provide the sacrifices he needs, the spills, chills and thrills are just beginning.

A young American secretary with a taste for lurid paperbacks witnesses a murder whilst visiting Rome - or does she? Nobody will believe her, but she appears to have stumbled upon the work of a serial killer active ten years earlier. The victims' surnames began A, B and C... and hers begins with the letter D!

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In the early 20th century, pathologist Dr. Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is summoned to a remote Carpathian village to perform an autopsy on a woman who died under mysterious circumstances.

With the locals convinced they are being haunted by the spirit of a young girl who died years ago, can the steadfastly rational doctor find a logical explanation to the strange goings-on...or will his rational beliefs be destroyed by the dark secret that lies within the crumbling walls of the ancient Villa Graps?

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Scientists drug and capture the creature, who becomes enamored with the head scientist's female assistant (Julia Adams). The lonely creature, "a living amphibious missing link", escapes and kidnaps the object of his affection.

Chief scientist (Richard Carlson) then launches a crusade to rescue his assistant and cast the ominous creature back to the depths from where he came.

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Beautiful Jennifer O'Neill plays Virginia who has psychic powers which have traumatised her since childhood. She is now newly-married and rich but becomes plagued by waking visions of bloody deaths and meaningless images which torment her.

With the aid of her parapsychologist friend (Marc Porel) who carries a torch for her, they try to elucidate the meaning of these horrific unwanted visions only to discover that these are premonitions of deaths...