The films

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Wolfen

Not really a werewolf film. Something older is hunting in the ruins of the South Bronx.

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Society

A Beverly Hills teenager suspects his family are not human. The last twenty minutes prove it, wetly.

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Ms .45

Abel Ferrara's second film. A mute seamstress, a .45, and a nun's habit at the end.

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The House by the Cemetery

Fulci's dream logic at its least coherent and most atmospheric. The dubbing of the child is a war crime.

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The New York Ripper

Fulci's most repellent film, and it is truly designed to make you feel bad for watching it.

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Maniac

Joe Spinell wrote himself the lead and Tom Savini blew his own head off on camera.

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Santa Sangre

Jodorowsky's most coherent film, which is a comparative statement. A circus, an armless mother and a son who lends her his hands.

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Basket Case

A young man carries his surgically-separated deformed twin in a wicker basket, and they are taking revenge.

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Sleepaway Camp

A cheap, badly acted summer camp slasher with an ending that has been argued about for forty years.

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

67 minutes of black and white industrial noise made over eighteen months by a crew that mostly quit.

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The Entity

A woman is repeatedly assaulted by an invisible entity, and the film sides with her against the psychiatrists.

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Demons

Lamberto Bava, produced by Argento, and it is a film about a cinema audience being turned into monsters inside the cinema.

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From Beyond

Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs reunite after Re-Animator for a Lovecraft story about a machine that reveals what is always there.

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Lifeforce

Tobe Hooper's space-vampire epic, adapted from Colin Wilson, and it is completely insane in the best way.

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Opera

Argento's last great film, and the needles taped under the eyes are the image of his career.

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The Burning

The best film on the prosecuted list. Savini's raft scene is why it was on it.

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The Company of Wolves

Angela Carter adapting herself. Nested fairy tales about what adults tell girls about men.

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Cannibal Ferox

Sold as the most violent film ever made. Lenzi chasing Deodato and killing more animals to do it.

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City of the Living Dead

A priest hangs himself and opens a gate. Fulci at his least coherent and most upsetting.

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A Chinese Ghost Story

A tax collector shelters in a haunted temple and falls in love with a ghost enslaved by a tree demon with a very long tongue.

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Alligator

A baby alligator flushed down a toilet grows huge on discarded lab animals in the sewers. John Sayles wrote it and it is a delight.

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The Serpent and the Rainbow

Wes Craven in Haiti, adapting a real ethnobotanist's account of the drug behind zombie folklore.

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The Vanishing

A man spends three years looking for his girlfriend and is finally offered the answer on one condition.

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Inferno

The Suspiria sequel. Less coherent, more beautiful, and has the best underwater sequence Argento shot.

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Near Dark

Kathryn Bigelow's vampires are a violent family in a camper van. The word is never used.

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Possession

A divorce film with a tentacle in it. Adjani's U-Bahn scene is the most extreme acting on this site.

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Phenomena

Jennifer Connelly communicates with insects at a Swiss boarding school, and there is a chimpanzee with a razor.

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Tenebrae

Argento's last great giallo, and the one with the three-minute crane shot up the side of a house.

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The Beyond

Almost no coherent plot and that is the argument for it. One of the bleakest endings in the genre.

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The Changeling

A widower, an empty mansion and a wheelchair coming down the stairs. Enormously effective.

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The Return of the Living Dead

Makes them fast and talkative. Easily the funniest film in this category, and a bleak ending under the jokes.

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The Howling

Rob Bottin was 21. Released months from American Werewolf and between them they finished the subgenre.

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Creepshow

Romero and King doing EC Comics, with panel borders, primary lighting and a story about a cake.

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Pet Sematary

King wrote the novel and thought it too bleak to publish. The film keeps the bleakness.

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Re-Animator

The funniest Lovecraft adaptation ever made, which is not what anybody expected.

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Scanners

Everybody remembers the head. The film underneath is about a pharmaceutical company and a custody dispute.