It’s kind of hard to fault any title from “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse” director Robert Eggers’ favorite horror movie list. I guess I wouldn’t particularly agree with his inclusion of Tony Scott’s “The Hunger,” but, other than that one, this is an excellent collection of great horror movies. Are Michael Haneke’s “The Piano Teacher” and/or David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” actually part of the “horror” genre? That’s debatable, but I can understand why he’d include those as being part of the genre’s best.
Nosferatu, Murnau, 1922
The Shining, Kubrick, 1980
Possession, Żuławski, 1981
Alien, Scott, 1979
Psycho, Hitchcock, 1960
The Innocents, Clayton, 1961
The Piano Teacher, Haneke, 2001
Cries & Whispers, Bergman, 1972
The Tennant, Polanski, 1976
Angst, Gerald Kargl, 1983
Rosemary's Baby, Polanski, 1968
Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo, 1965
Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Wiene, 1920
The Devil, Żuławski, 1972
Hour of the Wolf, Bergman, 1968
Blue Velvet, Lynch, 1986
Lot Highway, Lynch, 1997
Mulholland Drive, Lynch, 2001
Twentynine Palms, Bruno Dumont, 2003
The Exorcist, Friedkin, 1973
Don't Look Now, Roeg, 1973
The Birds, Hitchcock, 1963
Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein, 1928
Repulsion, Polanski, 1965
The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983
Häxan, Benjamin Christensen, 1922
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