(man laughing)
Want to be scared?
Forget Freddy and Jason.
This is a whole new crop of crazies
you haven't seen before.
These are movies you have to see.
This is the only list you need.
We are counting down
50 of the scariest movies
that you've never seen.
(female screaming)
It was the scariest thing I had ever seen
probably up until that point.
The whole mannequin itself will sort of move
and then its mouth will drop open
and just sort of scream at you.
When the creature comes,
this mutant jelly, sausage, bear thing.
Despite the fact that this movie
was pulled from theaters,
somehow it managed to spawn four sequels.
It's like a fairy tale.
That's the greatest character
I've ever seen in a slasher film.
There are so many red herrings in it.
Of course everybody's wondering,
what is inside that basket?
Watch your nipples because this baby
likes a little more than milk.
It's in your face and misogynistic
and it's directed by a woman!
It has some of the best death scenes.
The whole time your just like "No! No she's not."
"No she's not. No she's not!"
She definitely holds his "future" in her hands.
(laughs)
Welcome to the 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
We are shining the spotlight on 50 lesser known
yet totally amazing horror movies that will satisfy
even the most hard core horror junky.
The needles in the eyeballs.
Like "Oh man."
Like your -
Really stylized, really violent.
The movie scared the crap out of me.
It's insane.
It's terrifying.
It's pretty brilliant.
It's a very psychological horror.
These spine chilling movies have garnered cult followings
and critical praise and it's time you discovered them.
So turn off the lights, lock your doors
and get ready for a count down like no other.
(man screaming)
Grab some popcorn, grab some beer, this is it.
This really are the 50 best horror movies.
You've never seen.
You will sleep with the lights on.
50 scary movies.
You have to see.
See this movies, they'll scare the pants off of you.
These are the 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Narrated by me, P.J. Soles.
We begin at number 50 with Basket Case.
You at home, you have to see Basket Case.
Oh my god, it's amazing.
It's set in New York.
It's really gritty but it's also really creepy.
In Basket Case, Belial is the monster
that our hero keeps in his basket.
Hence, the Basket Case.
(creature screams)
Finished already?
It's about a brother, Duane, who had a conjoined twin.
Who was just a head and claws,
just made of disgusting half brother
but Duane loved his brother
and was totally sad that his Dad separated them.
The father throws him in the trash
and then our hero rescues him
and keeps him as his pet/brother.
Belial is a little bit on the nasty side.
One of the most charming things about the movie
because it predates CGI is that it's all stop motion.
I thought that was very cool back in the day
to move Belial, the big lumpy appendage brother.
Had to be all stop motion and to me it was a very cool effect.
The scene where Belial attacks the nurse
and then jumps out the window.
Belial is sort of a mound of just flesh with a face,
and one arm.
So to fling himself out the window and crawl down
the side of the building
is so creepily, blissful
that you can't help but just love every second of it.
(man screaming)
It's a really original idea
and it's really well executed.
I mean, you can laugh at the stop motion animation
and think maybe it's a little dated
but this is genuinely creepy.
It freaked me out when I was 14, too,
especially all the stuff about the brother sharing everything
including their first sexual experiences. Eww.
It was so horribly awesome that they made two sequels out of it.
It's my top five of movies that I would recommend people watch
if they've never seen horror movies before.
(Belial screaming)
Now doesn't that look like a basket of bloody fun?
Now for number 49,
When A Stranger Calls.
If you want piss your pants scary,
you need to watch the first 15 minutes
of When A Stranger Calls.
That first 15 minutes easily,
I think affected every babysitter in America.
When A Stranger Calls is a really fantastic little movie
from 1979, starring Carol Kane,
Colleen Dewhurst and Charles Durning.
The first 15 minutes of the film
follow Carol Kane as a babysitter
who's watching these two kids.
The babysitter's typical girl next door, just there,
going to do her homework, talk on the phone with her friends
and starts getting this creepy phone calls.
I first saw this movie when I was 12 years old or so
and it was the scariest thing I had ever seen
probably up until that point,
to hear him call on the phone and say,
"Have you checked the children?"
(phone ringing)
Hello.
Why haven't you checked the children?
So he keeps harassing Carol Kane,
asking her to check the children
and when she finally does ...
Let's just say you have to see it for yourself.
You're going to ask yourself, did they really go there?
You have to see it to know the answer.
Carol Kane as that babysitter in that house,
with those phone calls
and the final moment of that scene
where she realizes where the killer is
and that he's coming for her,
is take your breath away frightening.
The reason that opening is so terrifying
and it stood the test of time
is because it could actually happen.
I thought that was one of the best
horror movies of the decade.
(phone ringing)
Leave me alone!
All you baby sitters, beware.
Next up at number 48? Silent Night, Deadly Night.
I think really bad taste is very entertaining
and one of the films that is the worst taste of all time
is Silent Night, Deadly Night
where you have Santa Claus as a psycho.
It was only a matter of time before somebody took Christmas
and kind of made a horror movie out of that.
It had one of those giant ass VHS boxes back in the 80s.
It made me feel like as a kid,
I thought I was a bad person for watching this movie.
Silent Night, Deadly Night is about a little boy Billy
who sees his parents slain by some guy
that just robbed the convenient store
that happens to be dressed like Santa Claus.
Even more traumatizing, is that they sent Billy
to live with a bunch of nuns
for the remainder of his youth.
This very sinister evil nuns,
who punish them whenever they're bad.
The main character, Billy,
develops a phobia of Santa in Christmas
and also this intense sort of thing of punishment
for anybody who does anything wrong.
So years later when he's forced to don
a department store Santa outfit
and see something naughty happen,
he snaps and becomes this killer Santa.
Silent Night, Deadly Night has probably one of my favorite
kills of the slash movie ever.
There's this two kids that look like
they're too old to be sledding.
One of them goes down and he's all right,
the second one comes down, Santa Claus steps out with an axe.
(horror sound)
(man screaming)
You have killer Santa in this movie,
and yet the grandfather I think is far more upsetting
than anything else.
Christmas Eve is the scariest damn night of the year.
I'd be scared too, if I were you.
It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Consider tame by today's standards,
this chilly horror movie
caused quite a snowstorm when it was released in 1984.
Parents and all these religious groups,
they were picketing the film,
they were picketing the studio, writing letters.
It didn't create a controversy
because it was this horrific wholesome film.
It created it because Santa Claus was a bad guy
and they were airing commercials for it at like 7:00 at night
during family hour, bad idea.
People just went nuts about the idea of something
as pure and innocent as a character like Santa Claus
being exploited in this way.
The movie eventually got pulled
after just a couple of weeks release
because just so much pressure from all these groups.
Despite the fact that is was this movie
that was pulled from theaters
somehow it managed to spawn four sequels.
Mickey Rooney was even involved at one point,
writing a letter to the studio.
Telling them that they should be disgusted with themselves
for releasing this film.
Then ironically some 5, 6 years later
wound up in Silent Night, Deadly Night 5
as the killer Santa Claus.
It's very disturbing, it's cool
but there's something grubby about it
which only enhances your enjoyment.
If you're in for a really mean spirited ugly, cheese fest,
this is your thing.
Have you been good?
You'll be frozen in fear after screening
of Silent Night, Deadly Night,
don't miss it!
At number 47 is every teenager's nightmare,
The Slumber Party Massacre.
Yeah, Slumber Party Massacre, a great 80s slasher movie.
It came out of 1982
and the funny thing about it is directed by a woman
and written by this woman, Rita Mae Brown, who was a feminist.
So this is going to be like the first feminist slasher movie.
Somehow Roger Corman gets a hold of this.
All he heard was girls, slumber party, drill.
He decides this is going to be a really great exploitation film.
What you end up with is definitely not
like a feminist parity of a slasher film.
What you get is like a drill,
drilling women at a slumber party.
You've got the group of girls,
they're having a slumber party
and then a maniacal serial killer
is picking them of one by one.
Brinke Stevens is a goddess in terms of horror film.
If you want to see what led her on the road to becoming
a scream queen,
you have to watch Slumber Party Massacre.
You can see her star power in this film,
and you can understand why she's had as insane a career she has.
Slumber Party Massacre kind of launched my career
as a scream queen
so I have a real soft spot for it.
It came sort of at the end of the slasher craze.
It was in the same genre as Texas Chainsaw
where you get some crazy maniac with power tools
doing terrible things to pretty young girls.
I was surprised that Slumber Party Massacre
wasn't more well known.
It didn't have a Jason or a Freddy kind of thing,
it never really got the fame of Nightmare on Elm Street.
This movie has some of those great, perfect slasher moments.
Like when the little sister wants to go get a beer
out of the fridge
and she opens it and a body -
(horror sound)
Slumber Party Massacre has a lot of those kind of moments
and I think that that's why people enjoy the film so much.
In addition to the fact that it's kind of a sisterhood movie.
It's this group of girls who instead of breaking apart,
all kind of come together to save each other
in the middle of this massacre that's happening.
If you're a fan of gratuitous nudity in slasher films
then Slumber Party Massacre has you covered.
There's a shower scene at the beginning where the girls
were like, were talking about
like a soccer game or something.
They're just lathering up and passing soap around,
and it's just ridiculous.
One point in the movie, they kill a pizza boy.
One of the girls gets hungry and decides to take the pizza
from out from under his head.
Then she put it on his back and eats the pizza
off this poor dead guy.
You're not gonna eat that dead guy's pizza!
I feel better already, really I do.
Great, great horrible mean-spirited scene.
Silly, fun, fluff.
I can't believe to this day
it's still sort of one of those movies
that you know the title but you haven't seen the movie.
Because I think people will really be surprised
at how good and how funny it really is
both intentionally and unintentionally.
All that was written and directed by women
which is pretty cool
for something in the early 80s slasher genre.
You need to run out and get a copy of this on DVD right now,
you will thank me later, trust me.
If you like Michael, Jason and Freddy,
you'll like the driller killer.
(female screaming)
Now come on, that looks like fun doesn't it?
The next movie on our list will prove to you
that well, love hurts.
Coming in at number 46, Valentine.
I loved Valentine because it has
some of the best death scenes.
Valentine was kind of an under the radar
kind of slasher film
that came out right after Urban Legend
and the last Scream film and all these other things.
So people don't really remember it but what you have at its core
is basically a really great slasher movie.
It's based on a book by Tom Savage.
The novel is incredible
and the director Jamie Blanks
really wanted to create something
that was true to the book but also was
just sort of throwback to 1980s horror.
So he's really trying to bring back that classic
80s slasher movie formula of crazy killer,
trying to kill all these girls
and stalking them and murdering them in very clever ways.
The greatest thing about Valentine is the script.
It's very, very well written.
It's a who-done-it and anyone of the characters
could be the killer.
There are so many red herrings in it.
And throughout the course of the movie
there's always this, "Oh I thought it was this person
but now I think it's this person."
The plot centers around these girls
that have known each other since childhood.
There is the fat one, the popular one,
the sexy one, the fun one.
And there's this mysterious person
sending them creepy Valentines and notes.
One by one they get knocked off and who's the killer?
Is it the cute guy, or the other cute guy,
or the other cute guy?
You know, you just don't know.
There's this one scene where two of the characters
are just sitting at home and they get a box of chocolates,
and a card sent to them for Valentine's Day.
So she opens up these chocolates
and she discovers that there's maggots
inside these chocolates that she's eating!
(horror sound)
You got to give it up for a killer
that will taunt his victims using chocolate.
Who can't have fun with that?
You've got Denise Richards as the lead,
bitchy, beautiful character.
She's just in this Jacuzzi with alcohol
lounging all fancy and the next thing we know she gets a rose
and then she gets trapped in the Jacuzzi.
Then he's like drilling holes into it.
(drilling machine)
The killer's kind of cool because he's got this black
kind of jacket in his cherub kind of mask.
This cherub like mask that really looks like an obese baby
and it's really creepy.
If you're looking for something a little bit more like Scream
or something a little bit more like Urban Legend,
you've got to see Valentine.
(horror music)
You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Next up at number 45?
A baby that you won't soon forget. Meet Grace.
Grace actually has a lot in common
with a lot of horror films from Japan.
Not the ghost films but the sort of very unnerving,
weird women going crazy character dramas.
For me a really effective horror movie is something
that really transcends,
and really gets on your skin emotionally
and you cannot stop thinking about it.
The basic premise of the movie is that a woman,
she's been trying to conceive for several years.
This the first time she gets to,
she gets in a horrible accident and she doesn't lose the baby
but the baby dies.
And she makes the decision to carry the baby to term anyway,
the dead baby, and deliver naturally.
When she does, she asks for a minute alone with the child
and reluctantly the midwife agrees
and when she comes back the baby is alive and nursing.
It's a miracle but it's not without ...
sinister consequences.
Watch your nipples because this baby
likes a little more than milk.
The core idea of Grace is to sort of create a situation
where a woman is doing horrific things,
that you would do in her situation.
It's very important to me, to not be able
to dismiss this character as a lunatic or a kook.
She is a mother, who loves her child as any other mother
and is just trying to keep her child alive.
And bit by bit she's crossing various lines
in understandable ways.
If your child is hungry and needs something to eat
you're going to provide something to eat
any way you can.
(woman in pain)
Although it is a monster baby movie
it's not this weird, mutant creature with fangs
that's like pulling people under the couch and attacking them.
It's more the fact that this woman
has this un-dead mutant baby
who needs to drink blood and she sort of has
this descent into madness.
Because when the baby starts biting her
and wanting to drink her blood
and she keeps needing more and more blood, and fresh blood.
Then people coming wanting to know
what's happening with the baby
and they can't see this weird creature thing.
It's important to me to not spoon feed you the explanation
for what's going on with the baby.
I mean it's vampiric and it's not alive.
But the terms don't exactly apply.
Grace premiered at the prestigious
Sundance Film Festival
and on its first screening reports of fainting men emerged.
Two guys at Sundance fainted watching this movie. Fainted!
How many people faint anymore watching movies?
I love it that it was exclusively men
for the little while passing out.
I love gore, I love horror movies.
I grew up on this stuff.
I'd like to think nothing affects me.
Grace made my stomach turn, I don't know why,
I can't exactly explain it.
Men are really uncomfortable with sort of like
the female body and their you know,
it's still very awkward territory for men
so I just, I'm a little bit of [unintelligible].
I don't like to punish an audience that's irresponsible
but I do like to sort of twist the knife a little bit.
Zombie baby needs blood to survive.
I mean if that doesn't make you want to see it,
I don't know what will.
It's Grace.
(baby cries)
Ohh and you thought that all babies were cute and innocent.
Don't miss Grace!
If you like vampire movies, you must see the movie
at position number 44.
The cult classic, The Hunger.
The Hunger has got to be one of
the best horror features ever made.
That movie visually is just - I mean it's absolutely gorgeous.
The opening ten minutes of the movie
with Bauhaus and the killing, and then the monkey
and like it's got all this great things,
all just jammed in the first 10 minutes.
The Hunger is the quintessential lesbian vampire movie.
Catherine Deneuve is so cruel,
like she is one of the cruelest vampires.
Who wouldn't want to be bitten by her?
Who wouldn't want to spend eternity with her?
She's hot! Holy shit!
A little David Bowie thrown in
and I included him because let's face it
he's a little androgynous anyway.
Then Susan Sarandon, I mean one of the greatest actresses
of our time.
Here she is, this vampire lover and at the end she -
I can't tell you but you got to see it!
Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are two vampires
and suddenly he starts having this weird aging thing.
Where he gets old really fast,
which I guess happens every 100 years.
This starts to happen to David Bowie and she picks a new lover
and it's Susan Sarandon.
Which leads to all sorts of vampirism, violence,
and of course kinky eroticism.
Of course Sarandon is absolutely wonderful,
not to mention young and beautiful in this.
It's definitely sort of a forgotten Sarandon role.
She has this sort of remarkable duality of vulnerable and tough.
There's a very famous love scene
between Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon
in the middle of the film.
And it's we're seeing.
It's very bizarre,
it's just one of those films that I think
could only exist in the 80s.
It wouldn't happen now.
It's just bizarre and creepy and like scene with lesbian sex,
intercut with monkeys killing each other.
That movie is like a new wave, soft core, hot fest
of lesbian vampire goodness.
There's a rumor that David Bowie upon watching this
has never aged.
Look at Bowie in Labyrinth and then look at Bowie like now,
he's older but how the - does he stay so young looking?
(music)
David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon?
Loads of bloody fun!
For the monster movie lover in you, why not check out Prophecy
coming in at number 43.
If you had to see one mutant bear movie in your life
it should be the Prophecy.
Prophecy, when it came out 1979
was build as the monster movie.
Stars Armand Assante from Mambo Kings
and Talia Shire from Rocky.
Prophecy doesn't get the credit it deserves.
It's an environmental horror film
long before they're making them
is it's amazing schlocky, late 70s killer bear movie.
In a lot of ways it's sort of America's answer to Godzilla.
Godzilla is a by product of nuclear testing
and Prophecy is the result was because of mercury
and chemicals in the water
which mutated this animal.
When the creature comes and it is this mutant,
jelly, sausage bear thing
roaring around, rawr-rawr-ra.
It's so fun and endearing and just like
"Oh my, are you kidding me?"
That you just go with it.
The bears get like huge and mutate
and they're like running around.
They're like 20 feet tall with like rotting skin
and just like giant - you know.
You feel bad for the bear because it's trying
to protect its kids.
None of them are meant to be this mutated creatures.
(creature roaring)
One of the best parts of Prophecy for me personally,
is Armand Assante as an Indian.
Running around with his bow and arrow, awesome.
The sooner the Indian Armand Assante,
the native American going up against the bear with his bow
that's great stuff.
(creature roaring)
I think this movie, coming out in 1979
was sort of, part of that first wave of environmentalism
that really got going after disasters
like Three Mile Island and Love Canal.
Everybody was really worried about corporate toxic waste
getting into our water, and getting into our food,
and turning us all into crazy mutated freaks.
Prophecy is great, it's underrated.
Steven King loves Prophecy,
anybody get a copy of Steven King's book
where he gives five pages to it in Danse Macabre.
When you look at Prophecy today,
yeah it's kind of funny and it's a little hokey.
Yeah the monster doesn't look like
what it looks like on the poster
but once you can kind of get passed that
it's a guy in a costume
and just watch the movie, it works.
(creature roaring)
(people screaming)
Who can't resist a giant sausage salami monster?
This next movie is an over the top genre gem
that will leave you speechless.
Coming in at number 42 is The Dentist.
I don't know about you but Dentist give me the creeps.
We've all been to the dentist
and we all have natural anxiety about going to the dentist.
Dentists are real people, they're going to have bad days,
well he has a really bad day.
Corbin Bernsen is in it and he plays this dentist.
He kind of snaps because his wife gets
a sweet tooth for some other guy.
So all day long, in his office, he's just torturing patients
that come in for their cleanings and crowns.
(woman screaming)
It's one of those films where if you watch it
this-of course it's a little far fetched
but this could happen.
Your dentist could decide to snap one day
and just accidentally plunge the drill half way down your throat
and cause this big bloody mess
which your insurance probably wouldn't cover anyway.
One critic said, "If you've got teeth,
this film is guaranteed"
"to give you nightmares," and we couldn't agree more.
It's so over the top,
what this dentist does to this people is just so crazy,
ruthless, and bloody, and awful
that it's almost makes it okay to watch.
You don't sit there wanting to scrub yourself
because you feel dirty watching it.
You're almost like in disbelief
that you're watching what you're watching.
You'll be covering your eyes,
you'll be doing a lot of this.
It really makes you kind of think as you're going under
and you're in that chair you think,
what kind of day has my dentist had?
So it definitely, it gets you dreading your next trip
to the dentist even more than usual.
Watching his dentist just flip out is so much fun.
I was hoping sequels would come out,
like the Construction Worker and the Lawyer and the Librarian,
but it never happened.
There now, better?
With two sequels to look forward to,
I suggest you start watching immediately.
If giant rodents equate to your idea of a good time
you will love The Food of The Gods, coming in at number 41.
The Food of The Gods was released in 1976
but you feel as though it could have been released in 1956.
I mean it's definitely got those kind of special effects.
Special effects are not what I would call the highest quality
but in some ways that is why I recommend it because it's fun.
It's a giant rat movie and it was made decades after anyone
kept making drag rat movies.
Food of The Gods is a good film
because the animals get back at the humans
and they grow nice and big, it puts man and beast
at the same fighting strength.
Food of The Gods is one of those
environmental horror movies.
Something that's getting into the water,
and the plants are infected
and then the animals that eat the plants are infected
and then the animals that eat the other animals are infected,
and they grow giant and mutate.
It's one of the big, kick ass, killer rat movies.
The rats are being shot, the rats are chasing a jeep.
They used real rats in this little models
like this little toy cars and little toy houses
and it's so obvious.
There's this one scene where a rooster is attacking somebody,
I can't remember who it was but it's hysterically funny
because it's obviously this big paper mache rooster head
and it's kind of like someone's throwing it at the actor
and the actor's like "Ahh," it's so funny.
I kind of wonder like the actors when they signed on
I mean Ida Lupino, an icon is stabbing
a giant rat in her kitchen
as it climbs through the window.
(rat squeaking)
You know what, that's kind of why you want to see it.
Because it's so cheesy fun.
I mean it's cheesy and it's bad
but the fact that it's entertaining
and fast paced at the same time.
You can't beat it, I mean it makes you want to run out
and get some KFC.
(rat squeaking)
You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Next up at number 40, Motel Hell.
Motel Hell is about the place where you check in
but you do not check out.
It is a story of a couple that runs the motel Hello.
But when the neon sign flashes out, it's the Motel Hell.
Oh Motel Hell, how I love the -
let's just say best cannibalism movie ever.
It takes all critters to make farmer Vincent's fritters!
This people have this weird,
I guess it's a motel but mainly it's a sausage house.
Of course their hicks because we all know hicks are crazy.
We've learned anything from watching horror movies,
if you don't live in the city,
you're demented and eat people
and you probably have sex with your sister and are deformed.
Rory Calhoun is the proprietor of this place
and his also a sausage maker.
So you can put the two together, figure out where this is going.
Basically what all of their guests are really for
is not just the income for the down payment on the hotel room
but to be buried in their garden outback and fattened up
so that they can be cooked into this sort of sausagy fritters
that they're famous for.
You also get to see people planted
in the ground like cabbages
because that, makes sense?
I think what I love about movies like this one
is the sense of humor.
Farmer Vincent is so proud of the fact
that they don't use preservatives
and then on his death bed at the end,
the big confession is not that he's been
slaughtering all this people
who come to his motel to put them into his fritters.
It's that they did use preservatives.
I used preservatives.
Ohh!!
You might want to look on the back of your sausage package
to make sure you know exactly what's in it.
Or you can just watch Motel Hell
and that will explain everything.
Yeah, I think this horror movie
is probably a vegetarian's wet dream
because you can watch it and be like
"See, I told you! Parts is parts!"
"You don't want to eat that stuff."
"You don't know what's in it,"
"it could be your grandma!"
(man screaming)
Yes folks, this movie actually got made,
and yes, you must see it!
The next time you get lost in your car,
you'll totally be thinking of horror movie at number 39,
Wrong Turn.
You have to see Wrong Turn,
the whole idea of taking a wrong turn
and ending up in this hellish situation
is something that I think anybody can relate to.
We've all been lost at some point
and this just happens to really play up that idea really great.
It's a story about a bunch of inbred cannibals really
that live in the woods and they prey on people that get lost.
They're in the middle of Virginia
and they just sort of attack these people and eat them.
A good family movie.
These are hillbilly's from hell.
These are the kind of people that you don't want to cross
if you're ever lost.
If you see anything remotely looking like them,
you go the other way and run.
Wrong Turn features a strong cast
including Desmond Harrington,
Jeremy Sisto, and Eliza Dushku.
Eliza Dushku, I don't even know if I said her name right
but she's hot, it's good enough for me.
She's under a table or something
and she's watching her friend just get cleaved.
You put yourself on those situations and you're like,
how do I handle it if I'm watching
my boyfriend, girlfriend, wife,
lover, whatever just getting hacked
and there's nothing you could do about it.
There's this one scene where
the three surviving characters escape
up into this watchtower in the middle of the woods.
Then you realize the cannibals aren't so dumb
because, since there's only one way in, there's only one way out
and they're like 300 feet in the air or something.
And the monsters, instead of climbing up
to get them, they set it on fire.
Oh my god.
(horror music)
It's crazy.
So you got to see it.
Eliza Dushku in a good bloody horror film, shit.
They should have made that movie over and over again.
(female crying)
(female screams)
I guarantee you that you'll never forget your GPS
after seeing this movie.
If telekinesis gets you going,
get your hands on a copy of The Fury, coming in at number 38.
The Fury's directed by Brian De Palma,
who two years earlier had made Carrie.
I think what's great about The Fury
is that it's got a spy thriller element to it.
If you took a horror film
and combined it with a summer action blockbuster
you would have The Fury.
The cast in this movie is amazing.
You got Kirk Douglas as an on the run government agent
looking for his kidnapped son, who is played by Andrew Stevens.
And you also have Amy Irving and John Cassavetes.
Kirk Douglas' son is a psychic
and he's kidnapped by this government agents.
They kidnapped Andrew Stevens because he has this power,
this telekinetic power and kind of prime him
to work for their organization.
Basically these government agents want to harness
the psychic powers from Andrew Stevens
so they can use it for all their kind of secret experiments.
So they pamper him, they give him everything
and Andrew Stevens becomes their puppet
until he finds out that he has a rival in Amy Irving
who's younger and has the same kind of power.
So she teams up with Kirk Douglas
and they have to rescue the psychic son.
Basically you've got two people with psychic powers,
two not just one.
Basically the Fury is like Carrie on overdrive.
There's some fantastic set pieces in the film.
Whenever Amy Irving goes into a psychic fit,
everyone around her starts bleeding.
As you might suspect causes a whole lot of carnage mayhem.
You can see it on her face,
her hands are just shaking as the power, you could feel it.
You could feel it.
There's also a huge attack sequence
at this indoor carnival.
For the day, it's pretty impressive.
At this point in the movie, Andrew Stevens' character
is kind of turned into a psychopath.
The secret government agency pushes him too far.
They're giving him way too many tests,
they've taken him away from his Dad,
their sort of psychologically screwing him up,
and so he gets more furious.
He just stares at this amusement park ride
and the veins are popping out of his head
and all of a sudden the ride breaks,
people go flying, screws are flying.
It's just a complete disaster.
(people screaming)
The next time you're in an amusement park ride,
you're going to be thinking of this scene, it's terrifying.
The camera work in this thing is phenomenal
and it's underrated
and people just say well Brian De Palma, well that's Carrie,
the Untouchables, Dressed To Kill,
they mention all of his other stuff
but that little Fury had a big budget
and it had like all these stars.
You're going to love this movie
because you're immersed in that atmosphere.
You definitely got to see it, one of the best movies.
If you like Brian De Palma's Carrie
and you're looking for some more telekinetic mayhem,
then pick up a copy of The Fury.
I can make you get up.
Classic Brian De Palma, trust me, I know.
Claiming our number 37 spot is the cult classic,
April Fool's Day.
And I'm not joking around.
April Fool's Day is this awesome comedy horror
that tricks you into thinking it's one thing
and it's another and then it's another.
April Fool's Day kind of came late in the slasher cycle,
came on 1986.
There was all the Friday the 13th movies coming out,
Halloween movies coming out
and then you have this fun little campy, slasher film
just popping out of nowhere.
It stars the 80s scream queen, Deborah Foreman.
from valley girl, My Chauffeur,
God love you wherever you are Deborah Foreman.
She was so cute and ridiculous
and Amy Steele was like the tough as nails chick.
Then Amy Steele was also in Friday the 13th part two,
so she certainly had a genre following.
April Fool's Day enrages every guy who loves blood and guts
and every girl who, "I like scared but not too scared."
They love April Fool's Day!
It's such a ridiculous plot.
It's so ridiculous, it's hard to explain in fact.
It's fun because you've got all of this like
80s archetypal characters.
You've got the rich kid, who has the house, Muffy.
Muffy's the real name,
I mean I figured Muffy must stand for something.
Muffin?
Muff child, moffo, the muffster, muffin stuff.
Muff dive.
And she invites all of her friends
over to this island cottage
that is huge and there's like rooms everywhere,
and you got the jock, you got the smart kid,
you got the rich preppy kid.
One by one they're picked off
and Amy Steele our heroine is trying to solve mystery
and then she realize Muffy has a twin sister.
Buffy, or so she thinks.
The plot is so thin.
Amy Steele and her boyfriend are in the basement I think
and her boyfriend sees like the eyes behind this painting.
Oh my god.
Amy goes and pulls the photo off.
(woman screaming)
That was fun.
Not to mention, what I thought in my 10 year old mind
was the craziest sex scene in the history of the world.
Although it was just legs in the air,
to me at 11, 10 whatever I was and my mom's next to me,
it was the most uncomfortable thing in the universe.
This movie definitely has one
of the more memorable twist endings
in all of slasher movie history.
I think as the audience we were kind of like, "Huh?"
"Wait, what?"
At the end the big reveal is -
Of course we won't reveal the ending here
but don't be foolish by skipping this 80s classic.
Jesus!
It's so awesome,
you just get sucked right in and before you know it,
you've sat their for an hour and an half.
And like "Man I forgot how - good this movie really is."
It's a lot of fun to watch.
Especially with a new girlfriend or something like that.
Yeah, it's a little on the softer side.
(horror music)
All joking aside, April Fool's Day is worth a look.
Number 36, is the salty monster movie, Humanoids From The Deep.
Okay, listen to me, you're going to hear about
a bunch of movies on the special.
But if you're a 14 year old boy
and you're looking for the real deal
it is freaking Humanoids in The Deep!
It's sexist, it's outrageous,
it's offensive, it's in your face
and misogynistic, and it's directed by a woman!
Humanoids From The Deep.
Which is this kind of fun ripoff
of Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Imagine if Alien, Piranha, Creature from the Black Lagoon
got together and then got horny,
because that's just what the movie is.
Takes place in this East Coast upstate
little small sleepy fishing town
and they're starting to have a shortage of salmon.
Of course this scientists decide,
"What's a way we can figure out"
"to make the salmon more, bigger, better?"
They start genetically engineering these little fish.
Little did they know, when they tried
to put this fish in the ocean to grow
that they would become a tasty treat
for other creatures in the deep.
Kind of doesn't even make sense.
They also didn't know that these little tasty treats
must have tasted like some kind of bacon,
cheddar flavored pretzel
because no female would partake in this snack,
only the male species would eat this.
When you try to mess with the fish population
anybody whoever flunked sixth grade science knows,
Fish like creatures from the ocean
sort of wash up on shore
and start raping women.
The violence is crazy, the monsters are magnificent,
giant beautifully designed monsters by Rob Bottin,
who did Total Recall and designed Robocop.
They've got this Groucho Marx walk and they got their -
their really horrible sound they make.
You know it's a rubber suit - yeah it's pretty cool,
it's kind of creepy.
Much better than any CGI stuff that you could see right now.
They look slimy and real, and gross, and wet.
They're just like yeah, you know that there's men
with costumes on them whatever
but for more than a few minutes you believe it.
They're not human but they want human women.
Not for killing, for mating!
(creature roaring)
There's a scene where a woman is attacked in a tent
and she's having sex with a ventriloquist.
The guy who operates Chuck Wood in Las Vegas.
They slash him to pieces and before they can attack,
they molest her, she runs out of the tent
and you'll notice she's suddenly played by
a red head with breast size
about three sizes bigger than the woman in the tent!
It's like the most fortuitous nude scene
for no apparent reason and it's great.
Humanoids From The Deep is a Roger Corman movie.
Mr. Corman is legendary in the movie business
for producing super low budget movies
that showed tremendous returns.
Roger Corman, the king of low budget films and making them
huge was able to put together this film with a low budget,
making it look like it was a big budget film.
The best horror films punch you right in the comfort zone
and this one messes with your head.
It's Creature from the Black Lagoon
with modern day sex and violence.
It's scary, it's creepy, the monsters are brilliant.
First 20 minutes, it wastes a kid,
kills dogs, raping women on the beach.
It's just an outrageously, unbelievably,
shocking, schlocky,
great horror movie that I absolutely love
and heartily recommend.
(woman screaming)
(horror music)
You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Coming in at number 35, Hatchet.
This movie is great.
I love this movie.
I've told so many people about it.
I'm a child of the Friday the 13th generation.
I grew up on all those movies
and to me Hatchet perfectly encapsulates
what I love about Friday the 13ths.
If you want kills, you got to see Hatchet.
In the past few years,
horror have been taken over by PG 13 movies,
remakes, sequels, reboots, re-imaginings, all that stuff.
Hatchet comes out and Adam Green and his crew
deliver this kick ass slasher movie.
Hatchet is basically the equivalent of a campfire story.
It kind of creates this mythology
around a killer named Victor Crowley.
A group of characters go into the woods
for this haunted swamp tour
and their boat gets kind of capsized
and they're stuck there.
They're trying to escape while this elephant man like killer
is threatening to tear them apart limb from limb literally.
Kane Hodder is probably the most famous guy
that ever played Jason.
He's the only one that came back to play more than one film.
This was a new icon for him to play,
I mean Victor Crowley is every bit as strong
and ridiculously inventive
with farming implements as Jason was.
Adam Green wanted to stick with the old school horror
and have blood spray
and people getting their heads ripped in half
and crazy monster people, and it's all practical.
Practical meaning, no computer generated effects.
Modern horror movies are filled with computer touch ups
but not Hatchet.
If you are just into old school, brutal,
viscous, nasty, slasher kills
Hatchet provides, I think really probably
one of my favorite slasher movie kills
in the history of slasher movies.
I don't even want to know -
I don't even want to give it away really
but let me just say it involves twisting someones head
in various ways, where their jaw sort of comes off of their head.
I mean it's pretty brilliant.
You got a head getting ripped off,
you have arms being completely ripped off.
There's like tendons that are just like stretched
and you have tons of blood spurting.
Obviously hatchets involved.
It is gory as - in the greatest ways possible.
Now this is an actual prop from the movie Hatchet.
I was a big supporter of the movie when it came out
and I got a couple of thank you's
from Adam Green the director.
This was one of them, so it's been on my wall,
I took it down for this but so I have the hatchet.
Secret is I think he made about 20 of these
because I know a couple of other like friends of mine
that have the exact same one.
It's not a remake, it's not a sequel,
it's not based on a Japanese one.
Definitely the type of thing
that you should check out with your friends
and just have a good time and not take too seriously
because it's a really fun audience movie.
(man screaming)
80s horror fans unite, let there be Hatchet!
If creepy and quirky get you going,
check out our movie at number 34, May.
May is the perfect film that encapsulates
what it's like to be the loner or the outsider.
May is this amazing horror movie, directed by Lucky McKee
about a girl who essentially goes from being
just kind of a weird girl
who has a fake eye, and her only friend is a doll
to becoming a complete psychopath.
The whole idea is that she likes certain parts of people.
What she's doing is taking pieces from people in her life
and putting them together and it's kind of -
in some twisted way a bit of a Frankenstein story.
She has a crush on this guy and she really likes his hands
or she meets this guy and she really loves his arms
because he has a cool tattoo.
She has this doll that breaks
and she kind of goes insane after that
and decides to take all this favorite parts
and sew them together,
as any normal girl would.
And makes her own special best friend.
Typically in horror films, you see the damsel in distress,
the scream queen who as a guy we can almost safely sit back
and watch a hot girl screaming,
yelling ultimately get axed to death.
It's a little bit less frequent
when you say that the males are the victims.
Angela Bettis portrays May
in a very awkward yet sympathetic way.
She's essentially this girl that doesn't really have a connection
with other human beings
and kind of has a crush on the Jeremy Sisto character.
Some people think it's kind of gross.
I love gross.
Really?
Disgust me, please.
(female giggles)
I think one of the most amazing things about May
is that you identify with this girl who's about to cut up
her ex-girlfriend and her ex-boyfriend
and all of these people would make a fake person.
And I think that's amazing
that you start to identify with her because you feel bad for her
and you feel bad because people are mean to her
and they think she's weird and you want her
to be able to find a friend
even if it's a weird Frankenstein friend.
The ending of May will definitely leave you
with a feeling that you need to take a shower immediately.
It's one of the most bizarre, uncomfortable,
creepy films I've ever seen.
It's just sort of a girl search for her best friend,
just kind of sad.
(lyrics) Do you love me now
A movie about a nut job making a Frankenstein friend?
What else do you need for a night of horrific fun?
Now for a a little obscure vampire movie
at number 33, Lemora.
Lemora, a child's tale of the supernatural.
Basically a - fairy tale.
It's about this young girl,
really on the burgeoning edge of womanhood.
She is roped into the clutches
of this witchy vampire named Lemora.
Who uses the girl's gangster father
as bait to lure her into the forest.
Where she would like to have her as a companion.
The mirror is broken.
You can see how lovely you are in my eyes.
Look.
(horror music)
You'll feel the lesbian instincts
more than they're showing
which makes it weird and hot and dark and interesting.
This movie would be on my list of top 50 to see
because A, it's so beautiful just to look at.
B, it's got the lesbian vampire angle
and if you're like me, there's nothing wrong with that.
C, it's just creepy as hell
and it's got some of the best vampire kills
back when vampires were actually evil and cool,
and they did bite people,
and they did want to have sex with them
and they didn't sparkle.
You never really hear Lemora mentioned.
I think Elvira probably gave its widest audience
when she put on video and DVD.
It's amazing, it's beautiful, it's creepy,
it's got the lesbian vampire angle.
I mean what's not to like?
(horror music)
Creepy and sublime, Lemora will bite into you
and won't let go.
Looking for more blood sucking fun?
Check out The Brides of Dracula.
Our hidden gem at number 32.
I love Hammer movies
because they're always so gothic
and they take place in the Transylvanian countryside.
They have the most beautiful actresses in them, always.
This one has no exception.
Brides of Dracula is sort of the red headed step child
of all the Hammer Dracula movies.
Probably because it's the only Dracula movie they made
without camp Dracula.
Peter Cushing is back thank goodness, playing Van Helsing.
But in this one you have a creepy old estate
and of course this beautiful young French woman
who is traveling by herself to the countryside
to go be a teacher to girls school
is intercepted and brought to this castle.
And there is a young master of his estate
who's been chained up for years
because he's a vampire.
She - silly little thing - she let's the vampire go.
You fool, you don't know what you've done,
you don't know what you've done!
(horror music)
But in the nick of time Van Helsing is there
to save the day, huzzah!
You might be noticing that not only is Dracula
not in this movie
but neither are his brides, we'll explain.
Producers, I think over the years
have learned and failed
and learned again, what sells a movie.
If they put Dracula in the title, audiences will go.
What audiences are really drawn to
are the characters or the actors.
It's more about this one guy who sort of has a harem
which is where the brides of Dracula comes from.
His got this posse of hot chicks that his turned into vampires.
David Peel who plays Baron Meinster,
somehow seems to out camp Peter Cushing.
I don't know how he does it but when he finally emerges
with his purple cape and his bouffant hair
his sort of the Gary Glitter of Dracula.
I think sometimes you just want to have glamour Hammer.
(horror music)
Bouffant hair, countryside blood lust,
and gothic mansions? Horror heaven!
Coming in at number 31 is the hair raising Exorcist 3.
Exorcist 3 was really a welcome movie for me
because it made up for the awful stench of Exorcist 2.
Exorcist 3 with George C. Scott and Brad Dourif and Jason Miller
it's certainly a much worldlier sequel
to the exorcist than the Heretic was.
When this movie came out, I don't think a lot of people
knew it to make of it because I think they expected
more of like the first Exorcist.
A girl with the crucifix doing stuff to herself
and projectile vomiting.
This movie's actually more of a psychological thriller.
Brad Dourif plays the original killer
who has kind of been hiding out in the body of Father Karras
who has gone unnamed for the last 15, 17 years,
however long it had been since the original film.
The priest from the first film, he's locked away and he's crazy.
He's actually possessed.
(doors & windows shutting)
Did you think to save your friend the priest?
When you think about sequels that get three's
like Jaws 3 or Friday the 13th 3, or whatever 3 - ehh.
But this one's actually pretty intelligent.
One thing that people overlook about the Exorcist 3
is that it's got a really great sense of humor.
Father Dyer says, "Jesus loves you,"
"everyone else thinks you're an asshole."
The Exorcist 3 is highly overlooked
and people do need to check it out.
It's a very moody, slow burn kind of film
and has some of the creepiest nurses known to man.
It has a very powerful atmosphere that stays with you.
It also has one of the all time greatest scares,
in any movie ever.
One of the best shock scenes that I have ever seen
in a movie in my life.
Probably one of the best scares in horror ever.
That moment with the music, everything just freaks you out.
Man did that audience scream their heads off
and I was just as loud as anybody else.
It's one of those scenes where you have to check
the mirror afterwards to see if your hair has gone white
because it is so frightening when it happens.
It is absolutely insane.
You see that in the theater, remember seeing in the theater
at the summer of 1990.
The entire theater jumped and it's very rare
you see that in a movie theater anymore.
If you think we're going to show you the scene,
you're crazy!
Stop the DVR, rent the movie now and thank us later.
(people screaming)
You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Up next at number 30 is the terrifying Burnt Offerings.
Burnt Offerings is that haunted house horror film
that came in the 70s before the Amityville Horror.
Burnt Offerings,
that movie has a plethora of scenery chewers to enjoy.
Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith,
and of course the great diva throw down,
Karen Black and Bette Davis.
Come on, you have to see this!
This family, they're sick of being cooped up
in their city apartment
and they want to go out and spend the summer in the country.
They find this house that's just too good to be true.
It's this huge mansion, just beautiful grounds.
These people move in to this house
and it's of course owned by Burgess Meredith
who else would own the house other than Burgess Meredith?
Oh I like them, Roz, I like them.
Don't rent a house from Burgess Meredith
that just should be a general rule in horror.
Don't ever do that.
He can train you as a boxer but do not rent a house from him.
Brother and sister are renting it to them for a steel
with the only catch being that there's an 85 year old woman
who will be living up stairs in her room
and only needs a tray brought to her,
three times a day with food.
Awesome, awesome!
When they move in to the home the plants are dead,
the wallpaper is peeling, the house
is kind of cracking and falling apart.
And things start to get a little crazy as the summer goes on.
Karen Black is getting a little freaky
about keeping the silver polished.
Bette Davis, as Aunt Elizabeth,
she's getting tired all the time.
All she wants to do is sleep.
All of the sudden the house that's been dilapidated
and it's pretty old, whatever, starts repairing itself.
It becomes more colorful, the plants come back to life
and yet the characters within the film
are all slowly deteriorating.
When someone dies or gets sick
the house regenerates itself.
It regenerates itself and gets more beautiful
but it requires death and sickness to do so.
It seems like the house is kind of trying to kill them.
When I saw it at 7 years old, it literally destroyed me,
gave me nightmares.
A little boy is the only one to kind of notice what's going on
and he's attacked by his father in the swimming pool.
The concept that your own father would try to kill you,
especially to a young child was traumatic for me.
Although Burnt Offerings received mixed reviews,
the film won three industry awards in 1977,
including best director, best actor, and best actress.
It's one of those movies that is not afraid
to be unrelentingly grim.
There's this great running bit
of this evil looking chauffeur
that keeps smiling with his sunglasses
and Oliver Reed has a nightmare about it from when he was a kid.
This chauffeur keeps coming up the entire time,
it's really a creepy image.
It remains one of those movies
that kind of affects you mentally
in some way that you can never shake.
30 years after seeing it originally,
it still just makes me nervous when I watch it.
(horror music)
A murderous mansion!
Have you ever heard of such a thing?
At number 29 is the terrifying Funhouse.
The year 1981 had I think more horror films
released on record than any other year.
Every week there was an American Werewolf in London,
a Happy Birthday To Me, A Deadly Blessing,
and the Funhouse was right in the middle of all of that stuff.
Funhouse was directed by Tobe Hooper
who did the Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
one of the greatest horror films ever made.
First of all Funhouse is a great place to set a horror film
but you add this people that run the Funhouse
and their demented, depraved,
crazed son who's like 8 feet tall
and wears a Frankenstein mask.
You haven't seen anything
until you've seen Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse.
It takes these kids who go to the sort of ramshackle carnival
and go into the Funhouse and find out
that it's not as much fun as they had hoped.
The killer is sort of almost like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2,
where he's abused by his father.
He's not sort of this creature that hides
in the shadows that you don't see,
you kind of feel some sympathy for him.
At one point he takes the mask off
and you get this weird vampire mouse creature,
with his vampire teeth that's like -
(creature screaming)
That is not at all what I expected under the mask,
a white haired vampire toothed, mouse alien, albino creature?
It's a great scene.
This hulking creature is like stalking
this poor teenagers in this Funhouse
and at one point, she kind of huddled against the fan
and it's rotating behind her.
He's kind of like "Oh there's a hot chick,"
and he wants to touch her and he's kind of like,
"Hey may I touch you?"
A deformed guy who wants to have sex!
It's really unnerving!
The actor who portrays him does a fantastic job
of just having like pathos in his eyes
and you can really relate to him and yet still be scared of him.
(creature screaming)
The next time you go to a carnival or a circus
you will definitely be thinking of the Funhouse.
Especially if you're on one of those little rides and the cart
"Oh my god," scary!
(horror music)
How can you resist?
Pick up a copy of The Funhouse today.
Coming in at number 28
is a film that might surprise you, Halloween 3.
Halloween 3 is not like the other Halloween movies.
There's no Michael Myers in Halloween 3.
Where the - is Michael Myers?
Once you get passed that and you kind of realize
that it's still a solid little film and it is scary.
New film, horror film, John Carpenter, Michael Myers
and you pop the tape in and your like "Yeah, here we go!"
And then you got all these kids
with bugs coming out of their mask.
And you're like, "All right, where's Michael Myers?"
"Hello?"
People dump on that because it wasn't really
a Michael Myers movie
but to me I think it's all the better for that,
it stands out for doing something different.
John Carpenter decided
it wasn't going to be like the other Halloween scene.
He wanted to branch off from the whole Michael Myers story
and then make each Halloween movie
a new plot as things went on
with new bad guys and new killers.
Almost turned it into a horror anthology series
wherever that releases new creepy film titled Halloween.
Halloween 3 happens to be about a mask factory
which they're selling masks that will kill people on Halloween
specifically children.
You just have this really cool, weird plot with this guy
that's essentially a horror movie version
of a James Bond villain.
Trying to take over the world
but he's doing it with killer masks
and he wants to kill all the children.
A television commercial played on Halloween night
is what gives the masks their destructive power.
At 9:00 you're supposed to gather around
and put on your silver shamrock mask
and watch a special presentation
which is a doomsday device.
Which is going to trigger a piece on your neck
that is going to make slugs and snakes and spiders
crawl into your head and kill you.
You are going to be hearing the silver shamrock jingle
over and over again during the course of the movie.
Da-da-da-da-da-da six more days 'til Halloween, Halloween.
Five more days 'til Halloween, Halloween.
Three more days to Halloween, Halloween.
Two more days to Halloween, Halloween.
One more day to Halloween, Silver Shamrock.
(lyrics) It's four days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween.
Turn that down!
You will not get this thing out of your head
for years to come, trust me.
There's a scene about an hour in to the movie
where a kid and his family sort of test out the masks
and you see exactly what these masks can do
which is pretty impressive.
Somehow the beam from the TV will melt your head
and snakes and other insects will come out of it.
It's just so mean spirited and yet funny.
It's the key moment I think what makes this movie so odd,
and yet so great.
My favorite element of the film was Dan O'Herlihy
as Conal Cochran, sort of Mr. Halloween,
sort of a great Boogeyman.
Dan O'Herlihy is probably one of the best horror villains
you could ever hope for.
Halloween.
The festival of Samhain,
the last great one to place 3,000 years ago
when the hills ran red.
If you want your Halloween fix
but are totally tired of Michael Myers,
check out Halloween 3, Season of the Witch.
When you go back and look at Halloween 3,
it's a brilliant little horror movie.
I really think that of all the sequels
Halloween 3 has the most Halloween spirit.
Happy Halloween.
Nothing says Halloween spirit like an insane mask maker.
Up next at number 27, a sweet revenge story called Hard Candy.
Hard Candy, that blew me away.
I thought that was a really fine film.
Hard Candy is essentially about an internet predator
that finally meets his match in a 14 year old,
sadistic, preteen girl.
This young girl played by Ellen Page meets this older guy,
played by Patrick Wilson for the first time in this coffee shop
and they end up back at Patrick Wilson's house
which is very, very inappropriate
because she's like a young adolescent girl
going to this like full grown man's house.
Like he's just so slimy and charming and you do
like you want to hurt him in the manliest way possible.
What man would want to meet a 14 year old girl
if he didn't have anything but bad intentions.
So I guess she's going to teach him a lesson
and that she does.
It's a role reversal movie.
He's the fly and she's the spider
and she's just drawing him into her web.
She's there for vengeance,
like she is in no way vulnerable.
She is the bad ass in this relationship.
She is the one that's in control.
The great thing about this movie is its unpredictability.
Every time you think Patrick Wilson's
going to get the upper hand,
she turns the tables on him every single time.
I've talked to a lot of guys who walked out
because a particular scene in which Ellen Page
is snipping off the balls
of the male character.
She definitely holds his future in her hands. (laughing)
You're like watching the scene and slinking back in your seat
a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more.
The whole time you're just like "No, no she's not,"
"no she's not, no she's not!"
Please! Please!!!!!
I love that scene so much.
Damn right, that's right, that's what you get,
now talk in a high voice for the rest of your life.
Ellen Page really, I must say pulled
a real rabbit out of her hat
with that performance.
For a girl, it's supposed to be playing
a sadistic 14 year old.
It's really creepy and impressive.
She's so one thing at the beginning
and is so different later in the film
and it's almost hard to believe
the same actress was playing that,
that one role.
Super scary, Ellen Page is crazy
and you totally identify with this super crazy girl
who is tazing this guy in the shower
and snipping his balls off.
It's one of the most fascinating
and interesting character horror movies you'll ever see.
Like I think it takes the horror genre
and kind of flips it in a lot of ways.
You could almost see that being a two character play.
Yeah, a couple other characters come into it briefly
but it has that kind of unity and intensity.
You don't get off that easy, Jeff.
Revenge never tasted this good as Hard Candy.
Next up, an Italian castle with a very unwanted guest.
At number 26, Castle Freak.
Castle Freak was, not a lot of people know,
but it was actually based on an H.P. Lovecraft story
called The Outsider.
This is a movie that scared the shit out of me
when I was like 18.
Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton as this couple
who inherit an old castle in Italy,
which turns out to have this hideous monster in the basement.
They get to the castle, everything's great honey,
we love it here but there's a freak.
The monster is actually this fellow named Giorgio
who had been chained up there since a child.
And sort of has become this ghoulish creature
from lack of sunlight
and being beaten with a cat and nine tails
by his psychotic mother,
and fed horrible things.
He's only ever like lived chained
in a basement of this old Italian castle.
Then on day his chain breaks and he terrorizes the people
that had moved in the castle and their blind daughter.
I remember I was watching this with a boyfriend at that time
and I was like "Oh my god, this movie's
actually really terrifying."
(woman screaming)
Then after the movie was over he started doing this thing
where every time he looked at me he'd be like
"Ha-yey ba-den."
I was like, I'd be like "Stop it, that's not funny!
It's not funny!"
And I would like get really upset.
It is a fun effective scary little film.
There is an action figure that exists
and you can have your own castle freak.
Rip off nipples or do whatever castle freak does,
eat cats and do all the things.
Kids out there, get your castle freak figure.
What you see is what you get.
It's castle freak, there's a castle,
there's a freak in the castle.
It's scary.
(woman screaming)
You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Claiming the number 25 spot, a fright fest called Feast.
John Gulager's Feast is one of the most
splattery movies you'll ever see.
It's one of those great creature features
that has a really cool monster
but at the same time it's got a really great sense of humor.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon started this thing
called Project Greenlight
where the TV show would detail the production
of a low budget film
and then at the end of the season,
the film would come out in theaters.
The first two time around, the show was great,
movies kind of sucked.
Feast comes out, the show was great, the movie's great.
Horror fans got to sit and watch as they made a horror film
from behind the scenes, especially
what's creative involved.
For Dimension Films at that time, it was really cool.
The fact that no one really even saw the movie
has always been a big disappointment for me.
We designed Feast to kind of be like old Peter Jackson movies
or old Sam Raimi movies where they're really stylized,
really violent but really funny.
It's about a bunch of monsters that attack
all this people in a bar.
The bar in the middle of nowhere.
And then the door kicks in and there's this guy running in
and his going like "batten down the hatches"
and his got something in his hand.
It's the head of one of these guys, and it's been chopped off.
And they're relentless, and they swoop down on this bar
and they break in and they start attacking people left and right.
They batten down the hatches and stuff.
Basically everybody knows, don't stand by the window
but you think, well maybe this guy has it down.
His got a shotgun and he's going to save the day
and his right in the middle of saying something like
"I'm going to save your ass."
Then he gets ripped out the window.
I'm the guy that's going to save your ass.
I don't even know how you can describe
the creatures in Feast.
The creatures in Feast are - they're horny.
The monsters have penises.
The monsters in Feast will - you and kill you
and not always in that order.
There's a big scene where the monster's penis
gets stuck in the door and they chop it off
and it bounces down the stairs
and it's kind of almost, seems like it's alive
and it gets squashed and it squirts all over the camera.
We wanted to go that extra step
and have it be a little unsavory.
That approach worked and the Feast
franchise cranked up two more sequels
that served up the same unsavory fun.
Jenny Wade in the Feast movies
is sort of like Ash from Evil Dead.
Over the course of the three films,
she gets every single bodily fluid
tossed, gunked, everything you could possibly do
to this poor woman across three movies.
Basically if it's a liquid it gets splashed
across somebody's face.
It's just wall to wall stuff like that,
you'll never ever know exactly
what will happen next in a Feast movie.
Any horror fan who's getting
into horror would love this movie.
To me it's like the Evil Dead 2 of this generation.
And they do the same tricks all over again
and surprise you all over again in Feast 2 and 3.
(woman screaming)
It's a Feast for the senses, isn't it?
Rent this, now!
And if you like a good dose of humor with your horror,
try out Slither at number 24.
And the award for best use of an Air Supply song
in a horror movie goes to: Slither!
Slither is an awesome movie, I will just say that right now.
I love that movie.
The plot is, an alien lands on earth,
wants to take over the world
and kill everyone and eat them, or impregnate them
and the towns folk are just trying to stop it
from destroying the entire world.
Of course it happens in a small town
because it always happens in a small town.
Grant who's played by Michael Rooker
goes to investigate and ends up being infected.
He starts to mutate into a creature.
He goes on this meat lust
where he's like in the supermarket
looking at stacks of ground beef and just going "Meat."
Meat, meat.
It brings back what a lot of horror films
I think have been missing in recent time and that is humor.
A lot of people are caught off guard
with the fact that Slither was a horror comedy
which at the time was sort of taboo.
It's unfortunate that it kind of got lost in the shuffle.
A lot of people instantly see the slugs
and they're like "Oh I don't like bugs."
But it really is one that not everybody see and it's so good.
What makes this different is the direction of James Gunn.
His execution of this story was brilliant.
James Gunn decided,
"Look we're not going to take ourselves seriously"
"because this story is ridiculous."
"So we're just going to make a completely campy,
and tongue and cheek,
and fun, and yet scary and creepy.
Of all the movies on your list,
Slither should be at the top of your -
I haven't seen this yet but I really should.
James Gunn? Props, man.
(man screams)
Slither serves up sensational slimy fun.
Love a good gore fest? Check out Inside at number 23.
Inside is so disturbing,
it made me not want to have a child, personally.
I hope I never get pregnant after watching Inside.
Essentially it's a home invasion movie
with a really - up twist.
The cool thing about Inside
is that the title actually has two meanings.
Obviously that's the obvious one, inside,
she's trying to get inside the house
but there's something else she's trying to get inside
and I think I'll let the movie speak for itself on that one.
You go in thinking that it's going to be
a creepy killer kid movie
and a baby that maybe is like Rosemary's baby or the devil
and it's really not that at all.
It turns out to be a real cat and mouse thriller.
You take this most seemingly simple concept
of a woman alone in her house on a Christmas.
Then somebody shows up.
In the middle of the night, she gets a knock on the door
and its a woman who says, "Oh I need to use your phone"
and then tricks her way in.
There's this one scene where she's watching TV
and the crazy lady comes out of the shadows from behind her.
Then it becomes this extreme, brutal -
it's maybe one of the goriest movies ever made.
The amount of gore is just astounding.
I mean it's really Grand Guignol
and it brings back the French tradition
of the theatricality of the gore.
Inside is about two women battling.
When you put two men against each other
it gets very testosterone driven.
It's like "Oh you man up - I can get you -
your dead bro - I'll kill you."
But when it's women against each other
it gets like a mother tiger protecting her young.
It gets very much like "Oh this it, you're done."
When it gets to the blood bath stuff
by the end you're almost like numb to it
because there's so much blood.
One of the key scenes in this movie
is where this woman has to give herself a tracheotomy.
I have to say tracheotomy scenes get me right here every time.
Inside has one that tops them all
and it's really, really cringe inducing.
I don't think anybody was prepared for how gruesome
and how out there eventually it got.
Make sure when you watch Inside that it's the unrated version
because the rated version is 10 minutes shorter,
that's how gory and gruesome this movie is.
It's a viscerally, brutal, relentless movie.
I mean it is not for the faint of heart
but if you want something that is just raw hard,
it delivers the goods.
It will stick with you.
There's no ghosts, there's no creatures,
it's two women fighting each other
with anything they get their hands on.
Pencils, scissors, axes, knives and it's gruesome.
Whenever anyone asks for me to recommend a great gore movie,
my first instinct is to recommend Inside.
(woman screams)
A bloody good time all right, only for the brave.
If you're in the mood for total creepiness,
check out Tourist Trap at number 22.
Tourist Trap revolves around just that, a tourist trap
which is sort of a roadside attraction
that you might encounter while driving down Route 66.
Like crashed UFO sighting,
look at our little aliens in little jars.
It's one of those sort of stop here for a break and some gas
and some food and here's the tourist trap.
It's where the tourists are trapped into buying stuff
on the side of the road.
Tourist Trap from the late 1970s,
it's got some creepy mannequins in it.
Our heroes sort of converge at this tourist trap
which run by the incredible Chuck Connors.
Chuck Connors has a weird brother
and it's the brother whose hobby
are this mannequins that he makes.
He puts on masks and different hair.
Probably the scariest masks I've seen in a horror movie.
It's kind of those half masks which cover
just about half your face except your mouth.
He's killing people and turning them into mannequins
and then dancing with them and doing -
God, who knows what he does with them.
To him this is normal and this is a way to keep
the things that are - that means something to him.
Some kids that were on the wrong place at the wrong time,
wind up falling victims to a telekinetic mad man,
with a split personality.
It's really, really creepy
and actually kind of hard to describe.
It sort of needs to be seen to be believed.
What really sells that though are those marvelously demented
mannequin things throughout the movie
that are animated by telekinesis
and their jaws drop open and they scream.
The whole mannequin itself will sort of move
and then it's mouth will drop open
and just sort of scream at you.
It's just so dementedly weird.
Even the king of horror, Stephen King,
praised the movie in his book, Danse Macabre.
Claiming it wields an eerie, spooky power.
Anytime someone in this movie
like fights back or tries to get away,
all the mannequins start making these weird noises.
(screaming)
It's kind of neat and it's really beautiful in a way.
Even though it's very creepy.
Creepy little film you know.
To this day, I can't stand next to
a realistic looking mannequin
in a department store.
I know that that sounds silly for a guy who's 39
but that's how effective that movie was in terrifying me.
If you don't like mannequins you will love Tourist Trap.
(horror music)
(woman screaming)
Tourist Trap is a creepy little classic
that you'll never forget.
Now get ready for another genre classic,
Trilogy of Terror, next at number 21.
The Trilogy of Terror film is so great.
It's an anthology film and anthology films
are made up of shorts
that are strung together into a feature movie.
The Twilight Zone, the Creepshow movies,
all of those are anthology films.
Well, Trilogy of Terror was one of the first
and it's also one of the best.
Karen Black stars in each one of the three shorts
that are in the feature film.
Nobody ever remembers the first two shorts, nobody.
You ask them, "Have you seen Trilogy of Terror?"
And ask them to talk about it,
they will always talk about that third and final story.
You really have to hold out for the third chapter
in the Trilogy of Terror.
It's a story about a doll coming to life,
not just coming to life but being
extremely violent and murderous.
The Zuni fetish doll, little African doll
with the long hair and a spear, and his about yay big.
And he starts chasing her around her apartment.
Basically the idea is that if the necklace
that its wearing falls off,
it comes to life.
She sets this doll down
and the little chain falls off it
onto the coffee table.
Next thing you know, this little warrior doll,
his got this teeth, these fangs
and he's all dressed up as a warrior,
and he's got the spear and he comes alive.
What I love about this film is that
there are absolutely no computer generated effects.
This movie didn't have any CGI.
This was a little African doll with a spear
that was actually animated somehow
to run around after Karen Black.
You didn't need CGI because there was Zuni fetish doll cam.
So the camera is at that level chasing
her kind of nipping at her heels,
nipping at her ankle.
It just charges after Karen Black.
I mean it's like she's a piece of meat
and he's just trying to kill her.
Any which way that he possibly can.
He's really viscous and very mean.
This little doll is out of control.
There's a scene where she throws him
inside this little suitcase and you think,
well thank God it's locked in the suitcase.
Until you see this little sword come out and cut his way
out of the suitcase.
And he works so hard at everything, "Hee-hee-hee."
He's just so determined to kill her.
And you think it sounds silly
but I'm telling you it's a huge impact on you,
you'll never look at little dolls the same.
Long before Chucky from Child's Play hit the silver screen
there was the Zuni fetish doll.
(creature screaming)
(woman screaming)
You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Up next at number 20
is a prickly little gem called Splinter.
Splinter is this movie that not a lot of people have seen yet
but it's super, super creepy.
Some reason just thinking about it, I get chills.
That thing with the spikes and the thing -
it's just weird, and creepy, and gross.
Splinter came to me actually as a script.
It was originally called Tooth and Nail.
It reminded me a lot of all the great horror movies
I loved as kid.
The very sort of contained siege based movies like,
Dawn of the Dead, Alien, The Thing.
Movies where people are trapped in a situation
and have to deal with whatever's attacking them.
Takes place at a gas station
and these people are stuck inside
of the gas station convenient store
and there's this monster outside that is pretty relentless
and it's trying to get on in.
What is the actual creature itself
and really there is no creature.
There is no entity, it's basically a substance.
If it touches you, you sort of get infected by it.
The core of the idea for the creature
in Splinter came from is that it infects you
from the inside and takes over your body
and takes control of your skeletal structure
with no regard for how your body normally works.
It's not a vindictive creature,
it just wants to survive in propagated species.
As long as it has something to eat off, it will stay alive.
Splinter features some of the best special effects ever.
It's absolutely incredible.
There's a scene in the movie where one of the characters
gets infected at the top of his hand
and they need to remove his hands.
So, I mean how do you do that?
You cut it off but if you don't have necessary tools,
you have to break it off.
So Splinter has one of the most disgusting arm removal scenes
you will ever, ever, ever see.
The idea of this severed hand running around and chasing them
is kind of funny but It's also just kind of terrifying.
I mean the thing is really coming at them.
Go! Go!
I really like that scene.
It's kind of the fun break in horror movie
that the audience really needs I think at that point in the film.
And It's a crowd pleaser, it's a lot of fun to watch.
Go see Splinter, okay?
Rent it, NetFlix it.
Every time you think that you have them figured out,
it kinds of veers laughter, veers right.
Really, really cool, really dark, really strange.
Run.
I just love a movie that gets under your skin, don't you?
If you're looking for bone chilling scares
look no further than Session 9 at number 19.
Session 9 is about a group of guys.
They're an asbestos removal team.
They go and they take this asbestos out
of this huge abandoned mental hospital
and they go in and they start working on this thing.
And they're in separate wings and it's a place
that's absolutely horrifying.
One of the guys finds a box that says, evidence on it.
Inside this box are all these tapes,
prerecorded interviews of a patient that used to live there.
I think it was patient 444
and it's all of these tapes marked session one, session two,
session three, and there's nine of them.
I was watching the movie in my bedroom one night.
My wife is asleep next to me.
In the middle of the scene where he's listening
to those really slow tapes and all that stuff.
My wife kind of woke up in the middle of a nightmare
and she said, "What the hell are you watching?"
"What is this movie?"
What happens to this crew after listening to these tapes,
it's like this energy is summoned inside this asylum.
It starts to sort of affect them
and they start to crack up a little bit.
Each guy is kind of living in his own nightmare
and the movie just absolutely blew me away
because they did so much with so little.
It's got all the atmosphere of the shining.
It's got all that, what's around that next corner.
It's just harrowing from beginning to end.
Everything that's scary about Session 9 is in your head
and it's got a great reveal ending.
With a lot of reveal endings, they're kind of groan worthy.
The audience goes, "Oh my god, are you kidding me?"
If you make it through the movie and you get to that last line,
I mean, I will never forget that.
That line is always running through my head.
So - twisted.
I don't know anyone that has seen this film
but every time I bring up horror movies,
I tell people to see this movie.
You have to see it.
(laughing)
Happy nightmares everyone.
Up next at number 18 is Ginger Snaps.
The movie, not the cookie!
There's [not] a lot of great werewolf movies.
American Werewolf in London, The Howling, The Wolf Man.
They kind of peak with those
and then There's kind of nothing that comes close.
I would actually put Ginger Snaps
in that same league with those great werewolf films.
Ginger Snaps is about a teenage girl
who's a ginger who changes, turns into a werewolf.
It's coming of age story
except it involves teen girls and werewolves.
It was really interesting seeing that metaphor
for the beast inside.
You know, and like seeing this woman confront her sexuality
through the act of becoming a werewolf.
That is like the greatest movie metaphor
for female puberty ever.
It reminds me of when I was a teenage girl
and I got my period and I turned
into a werewolf and I started killing teenage boys.
So here was a really unique interesting take
about two sisters named Bridget and Ginger.
They're kind of outcasts, they're kind of rebels.
They stick together, they're the best of friends
and they sort of like hate everybody else.
They're kind of misanthropic and living
in their own little world.
And Ginger gets bit by a werewolf
and her little sister who is more the main character
sort of tries to get her to quit killing people.
But also the main character's name is Ginger and she snaps
but I love, I love a pun title.
These two girls are not normal to begin with
and on top of that, now the older one's
turning into a werewolf.
All of a sudden boys are attracted to her
and they want to take her out
and she doesn't really know how to do it
because she's always been a weird girl
who didn't like boys and boys didn't like her.
And then all of the sudden she's ovulating
and they find her more attractive.
Ovulating meaning she's a werewolf.
It's actually a really sweet movie
even though It's about a high school girl tearing out throats
and like having six nipples as a werewolf.
Six or eight.
I don't know, is it weird that that still looks sexy to me?
When you talk about transforming,
It's not like American Werewolf in London
where it's just like a two minute sequence
of her rolling on the floor
and growing fangs and fingers growing,
and nails getting longer.
It's a slow process that she grows like a tail,
she starts getting a little hair.
It is really a vicious and dark movie.
It really explores the relationship
that these two girls have
and how far is one willing to go to help the other
and how far can they really trust each other
when these monstrous elements come out in them.
It's a really amazing way to look at that.
You're both a girl still but you're also a beast in some ways
once you hit puberty.
You're mauling men.
That's what happened to me when I hit puberty.
I started mauling men in the back of cars.
Normally It's the wolf MAN.
It's men playing werewolves, but this is really great
because it was seen werewolves from a female perspective.
Any teenager growing up that's looking for
new horror films to check out,
Ginger Snaps is definitely one of them.
It's part of growing up when you're dealing with all
these different sides of yourself
that you discover as you get older.
Hers just happens to be like covered
in hair like the major fangs.
(werewolf roaring)
Werewolf movies just don't get any better than this.
If creepy religious children spook you
then check out Alice Sweet Alice at number 17.
Alice Sweet Alice overall is one of the scariest movies
I've ever seen but nobody really remembers it
at least in the current generation.
Alice Sweet Alice takes place in the 60s.
It's about a mother that's preparing her younger daughter
for her first communion
and the other sister is jealous about this.
Besides that she's going to start being mean to her sister.
Her own parents are afraid of her
but there's an added element to it
and that It's highly Catholic.
Nothing's creepier than the creepy music
and a girl whispering.
Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee, blessed are...
and just over and over again as the titles are rolling.
The murders in Alice Sweet Alice
are among the most gruesome
I have ever seen and even 30 years after the movie was made
they remain shocking.
That's a big part of the power behind Alice Sweet Alice
is the intensity of the kills.
The girl who plays the killer,
she puts on this sort of clear mask.
That transparent mask with a blue eye shadow
and a rouge around the cheeks and the red lipstick.
And it's transparent and you kind of see it
but you really can't see who's behind the mask.
She's creeping through the church
and you know that It's her from the very beginning.
It's almost like Rhoda in The Bad Seed
where you know that she's bad.
This rage keeps building up in the sister
that she ends up killing her 9 year old sister
who's played by Brooke Shields.
Brooke Shield screams and the mask is pulled out
and there's an even creepier mask.
(horror music) (girl screams)
You don't expect to see violence done to a child like that.
It's like, wow, it broke some taboos.
That's when the body count starts.
Everyone who's amongst that little cast of characters
is being killed off one by one.
The whole town is just so surprised that this has happened
in this small community and It's a search for who this killer is.
This whole movie, every character,
something's wrong with them.
Also worked well as a police thriller
and mystery at the same time.
This one is the one that is not as famous
as The Bad Seed or Audrey Rose,
Creepy Kids, movies like that the people have heard of.
Not many have seen Alice Sweet Alice
but It's definitely worth looking.
(creepy music)
Now that little girl makes the skin crawl.
Don't miss Alice Sweet Alice.
Next up at number 16 is a movie you'll remember
if you're ever hospitalized,
Visiting Hours.
There was this sub genre in the early 80s
of news women reporters in danger.
There are movies like Eyes of a Stranger
and The Howling and The Seduction,
and the list kind of goes on and then There's Visiting Hours.
I think people were going into it expecting another
Jason or Michael or whatever like that and it wasn't.
It was actually like intelligent adults
in intelligent situations.
Visiting Hours is kind of a rip off of Halloween 2
where you have the serial killer who just has to get
into that hospital and terrorize the nurses
and patients, and the anchor woman
whose love interest is played by William Shatner.
Always a plus!
In Visiting Hours, Lee Grant plays an anchor woman
who's very opinionated and very strong.
For some reason we don't know at first why
but really in theory It's Michael Ironside
who plays our killer.
He's got some personal vendetta against her.
So he stalks her, injures her in her home
and then she's sent to the hospital
where he stalks her more during the visiting hours.
Unlike the other 80s horror films,
like Michael Myers or Jason,
Michael Ironside is this character that is out front
you know who this guy is.
This wasn't a faceless killer.
This is someone you meet right away.
You see what he exactly looks like right away.
You go to his apartment and you see where he lives.
You follow him around like he's an ordinary guy
which actually makes it terrifying
that this guy could be any person on the street.
Yeah, you don't want to run in to this guy.
He just sort of wanders in whenever he wants.
He pretends to be a well wisher,
he even hurts, injures himself so he has to go to the hospital.
(glass breaking)
He mutilates his arm by taking a bottle, smashing it,
giving him some really bad cuts
to get him admitted into the hospital.
Sure enough they take him in and he's couple of rooms down.
He's in there for a few minutes and then decides
to go look for good old Deborah.
(horror music)
(woman screaming)
There's that amazing scene, he goes after her children.
And It's just one of those great moments
where the little kids are woken up
and they're at the top of the stairs
and he's just looking at them,
coming up with them with a knife.
And you're thinking wow, this movie is going
to take that turn.
(horror music)
It's one of those great movies that you remember
the next day when you wake up.
And you're like yes, that movie stays with you.
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You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Next on our list at number 15 is the black and white masterpiece,
Repulsion.
These producers came to Polanski and they were like,
"Can you make us a campy, shitty, horror movie?"
He was like "Oh yes, of course, you know, of course."
And then he proceeded to like go completely over budget
and make this completely insane like bizarro art movie.
Roman Polanski's Repulsion is about sexual repression.
It's about a woman who stays cooped up in her apartment
for too long and goes nuts.
Catherine Deneuve plays this gorgeous young manicurist
who is integrated with her sister to London.
And she's the object of desire of every man
who sees her naturally but she has this
like weird frigging repression thing going on.
She's in every frame
and she is what you're watching the entire time.
And it's her descent into madness
once the sister goes away for the weekend.
And she's begging the sister "Please, please don't go.
Please don't go." And you're thinking,
"Why not? What's the matter with you?"
And yet once the sister goes and then the guy
that has been pursuing her finally says,
"I'm going to just go over to her apartment,"
and then everything goes downhill from there.
I don't want to spoil it for people
who are wanting to watch it
but she does some really terrible things
that start to happen once this guy comes over.
In her mind I think she thinks sex is probably
the last thing she wants to do
and she would rather die or kill somebody
than be subjected to what she hears
often times her sister doing in the next bedroom.
It's a very psychological horror.
Watching an environment's transformation
mirroring the protagonist is fascinating for me.
For instance Carol was left in the apartment alone
with this rabbit and she puts it
back in the refrigerator
and then once her sister leaves for the weekend,
for some reason she takes it out and we think,
"Oh, she's finally going to cook that rabbit."
"Can you eat it please or throw it away?" but no.
She puts it on the floor in the living room
as the scene progresses and the days go by,
bugs and flies start buzzing around it
and there's always this rabbit laying there bloody on the plate
and it's disgusting and horrifying
and makes you very squeamish.
Many directors cite Repulsion
as being influential on their work.
Among them Darren Aronofsky, director of Black Swan
and Lucky McKee director of May
which also happens to be the number 34 movie on our list.
It would have been a film that would have interested me
because my father always told me I looked like Catherine Deneuve.
So I think I wanted to see the movie
because Catherine Deneuve was in it.
The best most beautifully shot portrait of someone
descending into madness that I or you have ever seen.
It's still crucial viewing for anyone who considers
themselves horror film fan.
(hammering sound)
What's that saying again?
Paranoia will destroy ya?
If you think hidden cameras can't be scary, think again.
At number 14 is Alone With Her.
Alone with her is about this guy played by Colin Hanks.
Colin was at the top of my wish list from day one
and when I heard that he liked the script, I was thrilled.
So we met and what was great about working
with Colin among other things
was that we saw the film in the same way.
I mean he was as excited to bend some rules as I was.
It's a voyeuristic stalker movie.
He's kind of trying to infiltrate the life
of this girl that he likes.
It's kind of put together from surveillance camera footage,
cameras that he wears on himself.
So you the audience gets to kind of partake in the voyeurism
of how he kind of stalks this girl
and becomes a part of her life.
This movie is very, very inventive
in a way that it uses the camera.
It's very much a first person perspective
we're seeing her through his eyes.
So for example when he meets her in the coffee shop,
It's the black and white shots
where he's wearing on his person.
And here you can see her looking right into his eyes
and speaking to her.
It was nice talking to you.
Yeah, I guess I'll see you around, huh?
Yes.
I can't wait to hear about your taste in books.
Yeah.
He uses information as a weapon.
In other words he makes up for whatever disadvantages
he has as a person.
Even he has no self confidence, he doesn't know what to say
or when to say it but he uses
an informational advantage to compensate for that.
And he gets the information through surveillance.
And the way that he implants himself into her life,
There's scene where she tells him,
"I'm going to go stay with my parents for a few days."
And while she's gone, we see him on his hidden cameras
like sleeping in her room.
He sneaks into her house, he goes so far
as to make her dog disappear.
Kill her best friend.
Break in, put glass all over the floor
and so it's dark and she comes home and she steps in it
and then she has to call him.
He does a really good job being an abuser
and pretending like he's the white knight,
and coming to save her.
It's kind of a low budget independent film
that a lot of people didn't see that shows how much you can do
with kind of just being creative with cameras.
The reason Alone With Her is on this list
is because being stalked like that is very real
and I'm sure it happens a lot where people break in
and install cameras and then slowly watch.
It's scary, it's like, who can you trust?
The technology has only gotten better
since I shot the film in 2005.
These micro cameras are everywhere
and it's really scary.
I mean I think anyone looking to do this,
the equipment is out there and anyone can get it.
After you watch Alone With Her,
you're kind of looking up and like
"Hmm, where could someone possibly put a camera?"
We were trying to do
something different and innovative.
It's very scary and It's
really effective and it draws you in
and the ending is pretty unforgettable.
(static sound)
If you find yourself searching for hidden cameras
after watching Alone With Her, I won't make fun of you.
Next at number 13 is a gritty vampire movie
with a cowboy flare, Near Dark.
Near Dark has to be one of my favorite movies ever.
Near Dark was directed by Kathryn Bigelow
who just recently won the Oscar for The Hurt Locker.
You could see the style in this film
just coming a mile away of what kind of director
she was going to continue to become
and this movie is amazing.
It's a horror western.
So It's got like people riding horses with cowboy hats
but It's also got vampires.
You have this kind of cow poke kid from a farm
and he's out one night downtown having an ice cream cone
and he sees this beautiful girl.
He's just completely infatuated with her.
Unfortunate for him because she's traveling around
with a band of fellow vampires
including Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein,
the kid whose name I can't remember but says,
"You're so ugly you make my gums ache." My favorite line.
So this cow poke gets sucks into this vampire clan
and he's turning into a vampire but of course makes
the stomach turn to think about killing other people.
And the best scene is that bar scene
where they're really trying to teach him
how to go and hunt and kill.
And they lock that bar
and they just take the rednecks down one by one.
To the patrons they don't look like vampires.
They don't have teeth, they don't come up that way.
They just seem like a crazy family
and everybody in that bar knows that
they're not getting out alive.
Even Bill Paxton doing this really awesome role.
He's this shift kicker vampire and they devastate the bar
and it's sudden explosive violence.
There's a beautiful waitress and he kills her
and he fills a pitcher with her blood.
Basically Near Dark to me I think
is the ultimate boy meets girl
then boy has to meet girl's family for the first time.
And the terror that comes with that, that moment when she goes,
"I'd like you to meet my dad."
He's like "Oh, okay."
But dad isn't dad, it's Lance Henriksen, he's a bad ass.
It's Bill Paxton who basically represents the crazy brother.
He's the crazy brother who plays football
but he doesn't play football in this movie.
He has spurs and he like tears your throat out,
that't Near Dark to me.
So many vampire movies,
Oh, I'm going to rewrite the whole book on vampires
and what they mean by that is I'm going to rip off
Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark.
If you really want to see where Oscar winning director
Kathryn Bigelow came from,
you should really check out Near Dark.
A lot of horror fans maybe haven't seen it
because they're like "Oh, that's just some weird vampire film."
But It's actually like a really well shot, beautiful looking,
Western, slash horror.
What you people want?
Just a couple moments of your time about the same duration
as the rest of your life.
If your blood just ran cold, that's a good sign!
Next up at number 12, ladies and gentleman,
meet the trouble little boy named Joshua.
There are lots of creepy kid movies
like The Good Sign, The Bad Seed.
Joshua was right up there with them.
Sam Rockwell's performance in this movie.
People talk about Moon and some of his other work.
I think he should have gotten the Oscar for this one.
He is just hilarious in this movie and terrific.
The fact that Sam Rockwell is in it
is the reason you should see it.
How do you play a dad that realizes
his son may be a murderer?
Rockwell found a way.
The mother is going through postpartum depression
played by Vera Farmiga who interestingly
did another Bad Seed child movie
called Orphan which is actually really good, too.
There are so many elements going on to this movie,
themes going on to this movie that are beyond
just the fact that the kid is kind of evil.
There's also the idea of the modern family in New York City
trying to keep up with this sort of New York City Joneses.
And they're stressed and they're dealing with this weird kid.
All the while you're kind of wondering is this little kid,
is he really dangerous?
You start doubting yourself.
Well, you know, I haven't seen the kid do anything.
Maybe he's not so bad, maybe it's the father,
maybe he is a bad father.
Maybe the mother is just going a little nutty.
He's put in question, you're not sure exactly.
Is he a sociopath?
He probably is.
He just have that perfect balance
of creepiness but sweetness.
He has a brain of an adult
and that's what's actually really creepy about it.
Is the fact that the lead character, a young boy
is talking and acting like an adult.
I guess it's the idea of when you see children
on the one hand, they're supposed to be innocent.
They can operate in a diabolical way with impunity
because nobody wants to assume the worst about a kid.
It's a real talent to be able to maintain
that sort of edge-of-your-seat underlying tension
in a film throughout,
without anything happening.
You know, nothing bad really happens
in the movie but it's all so tense.
Entertainment weekly and The Hollywood Reporter
praised the movie and it was also a selection
at the Sundance film festival in 2007.
Fox Searchlight like put it out,
they're not in too many theaters.
So I don't think a lot of people have gotten a chance to see it.
The kid that played Joshua, he went on to be
the little Spock in Star Trek.
There's no greater honor I think
than to say that you're capable of living up to Nimoy
and I think he did a great job in that too.
It surprises me how many people have not seen it.
How much it was ignored because It's really well made.
And I've got to say the last few seconds of that movie
will make your skin crawl.
You'll watch it again and again because it draws you in slowly
and then the last few seconds is just sort of catapults itself
into this other stratosphere of horror.
That's when you realize just how terrifying the movie is.
I think everybody in the room will have
a different understanding of what just happened
in that last couple moments of the film.
It's really chilling, kind of beautiful
and that's the end of the movie.
It's on this list for a reason.
It's just one of the best horror movies
you've probably never seen.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
What are you doing?
In Egypt when they embalm people like Pharaohs,
they broke the nose and removed the brain through the opening.
This movie is the strongest argument
for birth control you'll ever hear.
Ever heard the expression, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark?
Coming in at number 11, will explain why.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
was a TV movie originally in 1973
brought to you by Lorimar.
When you first turn it on, you think you're just
going to watch an episode of Mary Tyler Moore
and then it goes kind of wrong.
Kim Darby plays this woman who has moved
into her grandmother's rambling old house.
Moved out of the city with her high powered lawyer husband
and they're going to fix it up and it's going to be great.
She's in this like middle class boredom with her husband
and the husband's always working,
nobody's listening to her.
I mean even her friends are kind of bored with their stories.
There is a locked room in the house
that has a walled off fireplace.
Basically the openings to the fire place
have been all bricked up
and steel bars and basically the message is, do not open.
The handyman is like "Don't do it."
"Some things are better left the way they are."
Truly all it need is to be smashed open.
Those bricks are cemented four deep
and reinforced with iron bars.
Some things are better left as they are
especially that fire place.
But no, she's got to open the freaking fireplace!
They open the wall and it lets out these three goblins
who somehow have some attachment to her.
Oh my God, they've got these like pumpkin heads.
They have these little slashing claws,
black eyes, raspy mouth
and gorilla, little chimpanzee bodies.
And they come out in the dark and they want her soul.
Now she's got little evil troll people running around
saying, "Sally, we want you."
And grabbing at her dress and tripping in,
killing her interior decorator.
(horror music)
You thought you were having a bad day.
The last ten minutes of this movie are gut wrenching.
It's as scary as any real played in theaters film on the list.
They grab her and they're dragging her
down to the basement
and she's alone in the house except for the goblins.
And she grabs this old 70s Polaroid camera
and she was snapping flashes
and the only thing that pulls
these monsters back are the flashes.
But there's only a limited amount of flashes
and they're getting closer and closer to the basement.
This movie is insidious.
People forget that Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a TV movie
because it is utterly horrifying.
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You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
Claiming our number 10 spot is Audition.
A nasty little film that sneaks up on you.
Audition is a horror film by Takashi Miike
and the funny thing about this movie
is if you were to walk out around the 45 minute point,
you would think you're watching a romantic comedy.
The movie takes forever to get to become a horror film
but that's exactly what makes it so great.
It's about a widow.
His son's like "Dad, you got to start dating people."
He's just not satisfied with the women that he sees.
And he holds fake film auditions to audition actresses
for a movie that really he doesn't intend to shoot
but what he's really doing is auditioning
for a new girlfriend or a new wife.
He auditions the wrong one and she is a little bit psycho.
It's almost setup like a quirky dating game
and then suddenly it turns into
like the sadistic, endurance test.
Everything seems sweet like It's going normal
but then she goes home and you see
that she has a man that she keeps alive in a bag
in the corner of her room.
I'm going to be honest with you, this one is hardcore.
I've seen a lot of horror movies and I can sit and eat
a piece of pepperoni pizza during most of them.
This one got under my skin but at the same time it's awesome
because it has a badass chick villain
that you just don't even see coming
and you don't even know how far she's going to take it!
The first time I saw it, I'd been warned.
I'd been told, it turns on you
and then you're going to be squirming in your seat
and even with that warning I was still caught off guard.
It's pretty intense stuff.
She takes the needles, they're like,
are they acupuncture needles?
Literally, anywhere you wouldn't want them.
When she does a "tiki-tiki-ti."
Tiki-tiki-tiki. Kiti-kit-kiti.
Tiki-tiki-tiki.
Kiti-kit-kiti. Kiti-kit-kiti.
The needles in the eyeballs.
It's like "Ohh, man."
Like you're...
There's one scene however that cemented Audition
into the hearts of horror fans,
the scene with the piano wire.
There's a scene where he's tied up, she has a piano wire.
A whole bunch of people were getting up
and walking out of the theater.
My wife and I were among of the few to stick it out
to the bitter end.
She tortures him, chops off his foot, right?
With piano wire.
(male gasping in pain)
It's a great film. (laughing)
That scene is up there in the horror lexicon
of crazy scenes.
I feel so horrible for the people
who stumbled upon this movie
having no idea it was a horror film.
Because when it turns into a horror film,
it is one of the most sadistic, nasty,
vile, vicious, repugnant movies.
(laughing)
Go to this audition at your own risk.
For the vampire aficionado, you can't beat
Let the Right One In, coming in at number 9 on our list.
Let the Right One In a fantastic Swedish vampire film
that came out a couple of years ago.
Let the Right One In is not only
one of the best vampire movies ever made.
It's just one of the best movies that you could possibly see.
I thought that that was the most original take
on the vampire genre I have seen in years.
It's also sort of a remake of My Bodyguard
which is a classic beloved children's film from the 80s
except with vampires and not for children.
It tells the story of an awkward 12 year old kid
who's kind of being bullied at school
who befriends this awkward 12 year old girl
that just moves in next door.
It just so happens that she's a vampire.
She kind of teaches him a little bit
about how to stand up for himself
and vice versa he teaches her maybe
a little bit about her humanity.
I think he reminds her what it was like
to be a kid and have fun again.
That kind of bond I mean, if you think back
to when you were 12 years old
and where your friendships are like,
this movie captures that perfectly.
The title itself, It's talking about love.
When you let the right one in, they won't hurt you.
They're both so awkward and cute around each other
like she smells really bad because she's dead
and he gets over it because he's her friend.
It's just really sweet
and then she ends up killing people in between
and It's a really cool movie!
There are some bullies who pick on Oscar at the school.
You can imagine what happens to them
when his new friend gets a hold of that.
Bodies are drained with their blood
and they're hidden under the ice in the frozen lakes.
It's a case where you have a young actor,
in this case a girl.
While they appear very youthful,
There's something hauntingly mature and old about them.
I think obviously in the case someone's
supposed to be a vampire, it really worked.
It just something really frightening
and yet alluring about this girl.
One particular moment will have you drowning in fear.
The spectacular scene at the swimming pool.
It all kind of builds up
to this final scene at the pool hall.
The bully's brother puts Oscar's face
submerged in the pool.
It's all done in one take.
He's actually hiding in the pool underwater.
Air bubbles are just coming up slowly, slowly, slowly.
Then you hear screams but they're muffled screams
because you're underwater with Oscar.
And you sort of just get glimpses of the massacre
that's sort of going on behind
and these people are being murdered and dragged across
like the surface of the pool.
And you're wondering what the heck's happening?
At the peak of the Twilight mania,
here we have this beautiful love story
that's also a vampire movie
which is what Twilight tried to be
but as far as I'm concerned, did not succeed.
No vampire sparkle here.
We're talking about traditional scary vampires.
The best contemporary vampire film ever made.
It shows a sense of bravery in film making
that I think is really hard to find
at least in Hollywood film making.
(horror music)
Let the Right One In is bone chilling vampire brilliance
and you'll thank us for the recommendation.
Another brilliant film claims our number
8 spot, the mind blowing, Re-animator.
Dude, Re-animator.
I saw it the first time when I was 14 years old, - me up.
Re-animator is your classic mad scientist tale.
With an absolutely iconic performance
by the very versatile and talented
Jeffrey Combs, unforgettable.
My first horror crush was Jeffrey Combs.
It's primarily because he's so freaking good in the movie.
It cemented his place as a horror icon.
It's basically about this mad scientist, Herbert West
who's trying to create this
formula to bring the dead to life.
But the problem is when they come back, the brains have died
and they're not quite the same as they were before.
They go on psychotic murderous rampages.
They're mindless killing machines,
Duh! Doesn't that always happen?
Re-animator was directed by Stuart Gordon
and was based on an H.P. Lovecraft story
by the same name.
Stuart Gordon now is considered
kind of one of the masters of horror.
Stuart Gordon has never made a bad movie.
The movie just went further
than anything that I've ever seen.
They were like exploding entrails
like wrapping around people.
(horror music)
It's just crazy, words can't - you really have to see it.
After watching that movie, I had to sleep with the lights on
and with my Winnie the Pooh.
I have never been more terrified with stuffed cats
than when the first time that I saw that movie
like the sound that comes out of this thing.
(cat growling)
And It's just kind of like twitching
there because the spine's broken
like it's just, it's awesome.
And also very unforgettable and delightful Barbara Crampton
who's most notorious and unforgettable scene
gives a whole new meaning to the term, "giving head".
If you really want to get "ahead"
in your knowledge of horror movies,
that's the one to go for.
All props to Stuart Gordon for going there.
We can't say much more about that scene on TV
but here's a "heads up": Pick up a copy of Re-Animator.
See for yourself what all that talk is about.
We have a feeling you'll be forever grateful
for our recommendation.
It's the kind of movie that you get a couple of beers,
get your friends together and watch it
at midnight on a Friday night.
And It's really, really sick.
So I don't know what that says about me, but I love it.
I will be famous.
Everyone's entitled to one good mad scientist movie.
Up next at number 7 on our list is Wishmaster.
Wishmaster is the age old story
of "be careful what you wish for"
which is actually the tag they use on the poster.
An executive asked me to come in
because they wanted to do a horror movie.
When I got there they said, "We have a great idea,
It's an evil genie movie."
He's this really evil but very charismatic genie
played by Andrew Divoff who turns in
a performance that is up there
with Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
When you get the right guy
and the horror makeup, it really sells it.
Divoff has got a voice like a fork in a garbage disposal
and so are these.
It doesn't matter what we write.
It even doesn't matter what the makeup guys do,
even though they're brilliant and tough,
if you don't have a guy behind the mask who will deliver,
who will commit, who will do it right
then it all goes to naught,
and I thought Andrew was just terrific.
And he plays an evil genie called a Djinn
and he's sort of trapped inside this little red kind of crystal.
Of course he gets out and he starts granting wishes
and when he starts granting wishes,
he's got a way of twisting them a little.
Just in a way that an evil genie
would to make you suffer immeasurably
for your want, your desire.
Oh my god.
Am I to understand this is not something you wish to see?
Uh-huh.
Very well.
My eyes!
One of the real pleasures of Wishmaster,
certainly for me and certainly for Bob Kurtzman who direct it
because it was like homecoming, it was a school reunion time
because we managed to get a lot of great people in the cast.
We had Kane Hodder in there, we had Tony Todd in there.
We had Ted Raimi, Reggie's in there, Buck Flowers.
Robert of course is in there too.
All these existing monsters were welcoming Andrew into the fold.
We got all these people that we loved
and we have the fans love too.
If you're looking for something
a little bit our tongue and cheek,
a little more crafty and clever and fun,
then you have to see Wishmaster.
Doesn't that intrigue you?
Just a little?
Be careful what you wish for. You have been warned!
Claustrophobia anyone?
Check out our number 6 movie, The Descent.
I think Descent is probably the best film I've seen
that deals with claustrophobia.
Really making you feel like you're trapped
along with the characters.
You feel claustrophobic, you feel it's damp.
You feel It's wet, you feel like wet with blood.
You just feel that real claustrophobic feeling.
That would have been scary enough for the whole movie
but then they add monsters to the mix, holy shit!
We follow a group of female spelunkers
who decide to explore a cave
that supposedly has never been explored before.
I've never seen four better looking spelunking women.
They end up trapped underground
after there's this horrible cave-in.
They're wounded, their batteries are going down
and then you discover that there's something else
down there with them.
The cool thing about it is you got this
really claustrophobic setting.
I mean there are shots in the film where you're just like
you want them to just spread their arms out
because it's like they can't.
They've got rock above them and rock below them
in their left and the right.
And then there's the monsters.
The monsters in The Descent are some
of the scariest monsters I've ever seen.
They're there for the babe buffet
because little by little every single one of those females,
dead and eaten alive.
They're very nocturnal.
They're like bats or whatever they are.
They can't see anything at all.
Their skin is as weird like translucent
and they just adopt this where all they really need
is like to make this weird like click noises
and screams and communicate with each other.
You only get perspective on them
when you've got a flash of light
because it's dark, the whole movie is dark.
It's one of those films where you're like
"Just turn, turn the light on!"
One of the girls finally clearly sees one of the creatures
but it's from a distance.
(creature growling)
That shot has stayed with me since I saw it.
The girls end up turning on each other
and It's like so they're not only fighting these monsters
but they're fighting each other.
When things start going bad, you want to get out of the cave
but yet they're forced to keep going deeper
and deeper into the cave.
There's an awesome sequence where these two girls
are stuck upside down.
And these girls are they're like hanging from these hooks.
Crawling across the ceiling, when they're attacked
by one of these things that come running at them.
(creature growling)
I saw this movie in a sold out theater
and everyone hit the roof.
Are you scared of being caught in tight spaces?
Are you scared of underground monsters?
If you're scared of either one of those things,
it's covered in The Descent.
(creature growling)
You are watching 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen.
A countdown of horror's hidden gems.
And coming in at number 5? Alone in the Dark.
Alone in the Dark is one of those
classic 80s horror movie gems.
It's kind of a weird hybrid of slasher
meets home invasion, meets mystery.
Like a lot of horror movies, Alone in the Dark
kind of hinges on you buying into one thing
that doesn't really makes sense.
The premise isn't the greatest because
It's basically an insane asylum
where security is all run by electricity.
This place, as soon as the electricity goes out,
literally every inmate breaks lose.
Nobody thought when the electricity goes out,
all the crazy people can get out?
Great plan!
They get most of them back which is great
but of course a few manage to wreak havoc
and kill a few innocent people,
all because these guys didn't want to buy a generator.
Alone in the Dark was New Line Cinema's
first major motion picture
and it featured a star-studded cast.
Another great thing in this movie
is they had like an amazing cast in it.
I mean Jack Palance was in it.
Jack Palance is bigger in life than that.
Dr. Potter!!
HappyÉ trails.
Donald Pleasence was in it.
Donald Pleasence plays his typically nutty self
but he runs this asylum where he sort of lets the inmates
kind of do whatever they want.
You ever watch a Halloween movie
and think what if Dr. Loomis ran Smith's Grove?
That's what Alone in the Dark is.
Forget Dr. Loomis from Halloween
where he was practical and carried a gun.
In this one, he is as crazy as the inmates
in the asylum he's running!
Move your hands, in front of your face three times,
like that.
Yes and then the intestines will stay inside
and you won't turn to porcelain.
And you have "The Preacher" who's Martin Landau.
Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.
Alone in the Dark and Friday the 13th part three
were in production at the same time
and both films actually have a hockey mask.
Of course Jason's went on to be quite more successful
but it's kind of interesting now to look back and see
a film from the same era using pretty much the same mask.
And there were a couple of killers.
One of them was "The bleeder."
The only way you know him is when he gets a nosebleed.
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One of the escaped mental patients in this movie,
they call him "Fatty" and he's like so big
that he will pick up people by their necks
and shake them around like ragdolls.
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At one point they do go into Friday the 13th's territory.
That, actually that is one of the key slasher movie scenes.
Basically one of the inmates is under a bed,
the couple is going at it.
And this hand reaches out from the bed,
and yanks him under it.
So she's screaming and scared but she doesn't know what to do.
She doesn't want to jump off the bed because they might get her
also and this knife starts shooting up through the bed.
(woman screams)
But the studio wasn't just going for gore,
they wanted to surprise audiences
with a killer twist ending.
This was 1982.
It was really rare to have like a good twist
and it usually just involved some guy
jumping out of something and screaming
and the girl screaming and people scream.
But this movie actually has a brilliant twist,
you won't see it coming.
But it's an amazing film, it's shot so well.
You have like A-list actors, hamming it up
as like different kinds of crazy.
The movie scared the crap out of me.
(man screaming)
Don't miss the electrifying Alone in the Dark.
Coming in at number four is a grim 1955 fairy tale,
The Night of the Hunter.
The Night of the Hunter is a classic movie.
It's the only movie that Charles Laughton ever directed
which is a really cool note about that movie.
I think it's a masterpiece.
Robert Mitchum is one of these best performances.
Well I think The Night of the Hunter is crucial
not only for horror film fans
but for anyone who loves movies period.
It's one of the best movies ever made.
Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell
and he's a traveling preacher.
The story of the film is Harry Powell is arrested
for vagrancy or something like that
and he overhears a young Peter Graves
tell the story right before he's going to be hanged
that he has buried a large sum of treasure
and only his children know where it is.
Harry Powell gets out of prison, finds the widow
and woos her and tries to outsmart the widow
but the children know better.
It's a modern day fairy tale, he is the big bad wolf.
These little children are Hansel and Gretel.
What I like most about it is that it's like a fairy tale.
If you look at it for the visuals alone,
you've got these two children that are trying
to escape from this monster and they're hiding out in barns
and they're going on a little boat down the river,
and it's like the wicked witch.
It's very much an ethereal fairy tale kind of a story.
It's very clearly like a set and a stage
but the world it creates is so consistent and real
that it succeeds in that goal of sort of creating a world
that you can escape from.
Even though it's completely a fantasy world.
There's that wonderful, beautiful sequence
when they are on the boat
and she sings that kind of creepy song
but it's really touching.
The whole thing about going after children
I think is really macabre and creepy.
Child performances in horror movies can be a real trick
and this is an example of a very successful pair
of child actors here.
You really care about these two kids.
I mean and they are in some serious peril.
Just tell me, where's the money hidden?
But that's why I promised dad I wouldn't tell.
John doesn't matter!
Can't I get that through your head,
you poor silly disgusting little wretch?
This movie influenced director John Carpenter
when he made Halloween
and after you see it, you'll know why.
Coming in at number 3, is a nail-biting
80s monster classic, The Beast Within.
The best horror movie in this whole list
is of course The Beast Within.
The fact that I've directed it,
has nothing to do with my opinion.
It's sort of the movie that would not die.
I have no idea when I was making that film
that it would have the life that it has had.
The Beast Within is about this kid.
He has basically a beast within that's going to come out
like a cicada and he's going to shed
his human skin and become this beast.
There have been a number of people over the years
who have felt that the movie does not make a lick of sense.
In the dialog throughout the movie, a couple different places
there is actually a coherent explanation
for why the whole cicada thing.
It shed a skin, like a cicada.
The life cycle of the cicada, it's a 17 year life cycle.
That's why all the weirdness starts happening
to my character when he is 17.
It's just awesome because you can't wait for him
to turn into the beastÉ within.
The film offered a grungy film style and broke new ground
with these innovative and unprecedented special effects.
That kind of pure, gritty, horror film
that they don't make anymore.
No CG at all, all practical effects.
The video box that was daring you to watch the last 30 minutes
without running from your seat?
It's true because it is a special effects extravaganza.
The idea was to make the last half hour
as terrifying as possible.
The single weirdest scene bar none
I have ever had to do as an actor
was in the infamous last half hour of The Beast Within.
There was no way I was going to have a stunt man play the beast.
No, no, no, I was the beast.
They didn't do that because I wanted to be the -
I made that very clear that I wanted to be the beast.
United Artists, in their wisdom asked us
to shoot in a mental asylum
but they'd promised me that there'd be no inmates.
They said it was a disused hospital.
We're up there shooting this transformation scene
for three days and I'm going through
all these different stages of prosthetics.
And when we started shooting the stuff
and the tongue and the heads exploding,
then behind me I suddenly heard "Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh."
When I turned around, there were three inmates
from the mental asylum in nutcase gowns.
And I suddenly realize they thought this was their worst,
this is the operation room, this is surgery
because we had lights like this, lights like this.
I thought "Oh my God, they think this is real."
These burly guys came in and dragged them off screaming
and I've always felt bad about this
because I'm sure they told all the other inmates
"We've seen the room and that's where they cut your head off"
"and they do experiments on you."
Guess who is a fan of The Beast Within?
Would you believe, Queen Latifah!
I ran in to her one time at a magazine stand
and she said, "You look really familiar.
Do I know you?"
I said, "Well, I'm an actor,"
and she goes "Oh, what have you done?"
"Well, when I got to The Beast Within,"
her eyes went like this and she went, "Oh my god!"
"The Beast Within!
I love that - I've seen that movie five times!"
"My brother and I used to hide behind the couch!"
"You scared the crap out of us!"
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This magazine which I have a lot of fun and respect for,
Rue Morgue magazine out of Canada,
they recently referred to The Beast Within
as "a criminally underrated genre masterpiece"
which I thought that's pretty cool becauseÉ I agree.
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Think of The Beast Within as a twist
on a classic werewolf story, with an entomological flair.
Earning the prestigious number 2 spot on our list
is the pulse pounding, Pumpkinhead.
If you like creature movies, you will love Pumpkinhead.
There aren't a lot of good backwoods horror films.
Pumpkinhead is one of the best.
Basically these kind of jerky city kids
go out into the backwoods and they're riding their dirt bikes.
They start racing along and they're zooping up and down
and Lance Henriksen's son goes chasing after his dog,
gets in between one of the bikes,
gets hit in the head and killed.
(motorbike sound)
Lance Henriksen plays Ed Harley
who's the father of the boy who gets hit
and he goes into this old witch, Haggis.
When I first saw that witch, she scared the hell out of me.
He has her resurrect a demon that they call Pumpkinhead
that's out in this pumpkin patch buried in the ground
to extract revenge on the people
that accidentally killed his son.
He plays such a broken character
and you could feel his desperation.
He just has to do this.
The only catch is every time the demon kills somebody,
Ed Harley feels it.
As the movie progresses he starts realizing
what he's doing is wrong,
vengeance in his ultimate form is wrong,
and has to kind of try to stop it
before Pumpkinhead kills all the rest of the kids.
He is a mean son of a bitch.
(man screaming)
Part of Pumpkinhead's success
I think is that it's directed by a man
who made monsters for a living, Stan Winston.
I love the monster.
I mean what can I say, it's just one
of the all-time greatest movie monsters.
He creates a monster that's so memorable, so evil.
Stan Winston got what was scary.
He goes back and taps into something very primitive
and very child-like, what is scary?
There's no CG in this movie, it's all very practical.
No CG, that what you saw was right there on the set.
You can't substitute, there's no substitute for that.
The tangibility, you can reach out and touch it
and it can reach out and touch you.
There's a scene where Pumpkinhead picks her up
and he basically cuts a cross
into her forehead with his nails.
It's very atmospheric, It's very creepy all around
but for some reason that scene was very primal.
It's just a great spooky backwoods horror film.
And it's required viewing for any casual horror film.
(woman screaming)
If you think Alien was scary, you haven't seen Pumpkinhead.
The time has come to announce our number 1 movie
on our list of 50 Movies You've Never Seen!
Ladies and gentleman, behold! Black Christmas!
This movie started the entire slasher genre
and continues to send icy chills down the spines of horror fans
that discover it year after year.
Black Christmas is number 1 on the list
and there's a reason for that.
It was the first slasher film and it's basically
about this sorority house where they're being menaced
by some obscene phone caller.
The first time I saw Black Christmas, I was in high school
and it scared the shit out of me.
Bob Clark was a very, very underrated director.
He directed another classic film called A Christmas Story
which is the polar opposite of what Black Christmas was.
It's all very Christmasy feeling
and yet there's this evil that's lurking outside.
People, they might lump it in
with like Silent Night, Deadly Night
and it's nothing like that.
It's a really dark ugly movie
set on the happiest time of the year.
I love it for that reason.
I love the use of this Christmas atmosphere
which normally is supposed to be something comforting
and jolly and so forth
and kind of just turning it on its head.
The movie opens with a point-of-view shot
of these two hands crawling
up the trellis on the side of this house.
What this guy does is he makes his way to top of the window
to the attic and he lets himself inside
and he sort of camps out there.
What he ends up doing is making phone calls
down to the girls that live in this sorority house.
I mean the telephone calls are just so terrifying.
The phone calls will make your hair on your body
completely stand on end.
This killer could have just been this crazy man on the phone
but what Bob Clark does is he layers the voices.
It's almost like there's three voices talking at the same time.
What he does in doing that is so chilling.
(man laughing)
The filthiness, the sleaziness of the phone calls
from this perverted phone stalker.
You're surprised that at the time that the film was made
that it would have gotten away with it
because it's just so perverse.
It's more of a detective movie in a way.
There's a lot of creepy scenes in it
but it's really about the characters.
Margot Kidder like steals the show
as like kind of the lush house, house sister.
She's like boozing it up all the time and talks like a sailor
and she's hysterical.
Like she has this really great line
where she's sitting there with a cigarette
and some guy is calling on the phone.
She's like "Oh, put this, put your,
and rub it in a light socket!"
Why don't you go find a wall socket
and stick your tongue in it,
that will give you a charge!
You should just get all your friends together
on Christmas Eve and watch Black Christmas.
And you know, screw the Santa Claus claymation shit.
Just watch Black Christmas and get really drunk
and laugh at everything Margot Kidder says
because that's the greatest character
I've ever seen in a slasher film.
Although Margot Kidder provides the comic relief,
it's only to protect you from some
of the scariest movie moments of all time.
There's this great scene in the film where one of the girls
in the beginning is supposed to be heading home.
So she's up in her room and she hears her cat meowing
over in the closet and there's this,
you know, point of view shot behind the plastic
so you know that something is probably there.
She gets closer and closer and all of the sudden
the plastic like leaps out.
(creature roaring)
The 1978 film Halloween is clearly the benchmark film
that ushered in modern horror.
Without Halloween you wouldn't have Freddy Krueger,
you wouldn't have Jason Voorhees,
you wouldn't have Scream, you wouldn't have Chucky.
It ushered in that franchisable kind of horror.
Well, what people don't realize
is that the director of Halloween
was friends of the director of Black Christmas,
and Black Christmas did what Halloween did
four years before, in 1974.
And it really created the template
that all those other movie,
everybody thinks it's Halloween that created
the template for that kind of thing.
In fact it created two templates,
not only the point of view of the killer,
seeing things through the killer's eyes
and hearing the breathing and doing that device,
but also the killer is in the house.
The caller is in the house.
The calls are coming from the house!
Jess, get out!
Well, several other movies wound up doing riffs
on that one as well,
When A Stranger Calls? Etcetera, etcetera.
Black Christmas did it first!
You know, and credit, where credit is due!
If you're wondering why the killer
is stalking the sorority girls, you're out of luck.
Director Bob Clark only dangles sporadic clues
which causes attention to escalate.
You never find out who the crazy guy is or what he did.
You never find out what did Billy do with the baby.
Who is Agnes? I don't know.
You don't see the killer.
What you see are fleeting glimpses of him.
You see a shadow, you see a door closing.
You see an eyeball in a crack of a door.
The killer is so menacing... without you seeing him.
It's never revealed exactly who the killer is.
You never really did a good look at him
and I think that's actually the fear of the unknown
is what makes this film so effective.
Let your imagination fill in the blanks
and most of the time our imaginations are much more
terrifying than anything you can put up on the screen.
Black Christmas is one of my favorite horror movies.
I'm going to say it's a masterpiece.
I'm going to just say it's a masterpiece
and even Elvis loved it.
He used to watch it on Christmas.
It's one of the scariest movies
and if you haven't seen it, shame on you.
Go out and rent it right now.
Stop this DVD.
Go rent it, you can watch this later.
Black Christmas to me is the highest standard
of slasher films.
There's just so many classic horror movie moments
in Black Christmas
that have been imitated time and again.
Black Christmas just doesn't receive
the credit that it deserves.
I personally can see
why that would be the number 1 movie on your list.
Talk about influential, wow.
It just set a major ball rolling, didn't it?
(man screaming)
(female screaming)
I'm P.J. Soles and it's been an immense pleasure
introducing you to 50 classic horror films
that I know you'll love.
These movies totally helped shake the horror genre
and they continue to draw critical praise
and cult followings,
so start exploring!
Many of the movies are available
as special editions with deleted scenes.
Thank you for watching!
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