One of the most successful small budget classic horror movies,a creepy scary story that inspired Romero’s famous zombie movie Night of the Living Dead.Criterion has included both the original theatrical version and director’s cut version in the package.ĭiabolique Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955 FranceĪrguably “French Hitchcock” Henri-Georges Clouzot’s best work,a highly suspenseful horror thriller that inspired Hitch made his masterpiece – Psycho,Criterion upgraded it to Blu-ray format last year.Įmpire of Passion Nagisa Oshima 1978 Japan Yeaworth 1958 United StatesĬlassic Hollywood sci-fi horror movie with a monster you may have never seen before.”Beware of the Blob!”.Ĭarnival of Souls Herk Harvey 1962 United States Lars von Trier’s dark and disturbing fairy tale of possessed human mind and battle of sexes,the love-making scene is one of the most controversial movie scene in recent times. I’m not a horror movie fan,but when I counted the horror movies in Criterion Collection,I surprisingly found that I owned and watched two thirds of them.From the earliest movie in the whole collection(Haxan) to one of the latest released film in the set(Antichrist),Criterion collects more than 30 horror gems from different decade and culture.If you are tired of monsters and zombies,this list may bring you something new to experience in the horror world.Before all those horror movie lists flood in around Halloween,let’s do some warmups for the horror carnival.
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