A scary amount has already been said about the modern horror arthouse resurgence. You might even say this genre is rising from the grave, with the surprising box office success of Get Out, and horror flicks like It Follows and The Witch getting recognized alongside traditional dramas on the prestige festival circuit. The most recent horror sensation is the It remake, which has just become the highest-grossing horror film of all time. But It isn't available for streaming yet, and we all know that today's modern horrors are built on a long tradition of cinematic scares, so with Halloween weekend upon us, who better to turn to help plan our gory bingefests than Edgar Wright?
Wright is a noted movie lover with a penchant for the spooky, and he has entered his own celebrated film into the modern horror-comedy canon with zombie flick Shaun of the Dead. He collaborated with curated movie streamers MUBI to put this chronological list (with a heavy '60s lean) together, making sure to note that trimming the list down to a mere 100 titles meant that some of his favorite horror-adjacent thriller and sci-fi films had to be left off. So, starting in 1922 with the vampire film that inspired undead flicks for generations to come, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, and bringing us all the way to last year's Korean zombie favorite, Yeon Sang-Ho's Train to Busan, here's a list that should keep you awake all weekend long and beyond.
1922 - Nosferatu by F.W. Murnau
1931 - Frankenstein by James Whale
1932 - Freaks by Tod Browning
1932 - Island of Lost Souls by Erle C. Kenton
1932 - The Mummy by Karl Freund
1932 - The Old Dark House by James Whale
1933 - The Invisible Man by James Whale
1935 - Bride of Frankenstein by James Whale
1945 - Dead of Night by Alberto Cavalcanti
1956 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Don Siegel
'Train to Busan'
1957 - Curse of the Demon Jacques Tourneur
1958 - Dracula by Terence Fisher
1959 - A Bucket of Blood by Roger Corman
1960 - Black Sunday by Mario Bava
1960 - Eyes Without A Face by Georges Franju
1960 - Peeping Tom by Michael Powell
1960 - Psychoby Alfred Hitchcock
1960 - Village of the Damned by Wolf Rilla
1961 - The Innocents by Jack Clayton
1962 - Carnival of Soulsby Herk Harvey
1962 - What Happened to Baby Jane by Robert Aldrich
1963 - The Haunting by Robert Wise
1964 - Blood and Black Lace by Mario Bava
1964 - Onibaba by Kaneto Shindo
1965 - Repulsion by Roman Polanski
Check out the rest of the list that continues from 1966-2016 over at MUBI.
What titles would you add? Let us know in the comments!
Source: MUBI
