Mark & Neil’s guide to Halloween on Kanopy. From the cult to the classic, the good to the bad, and from the bad to Nic Cage. A relentless playlist of the best and worst horrors you can imagine…
Haxan
1922. Classic. A horror masterwork. Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath. Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Banned by the Catholic church for many years. Based on Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Still creepy as…
Hellraiser
1987. Clive Barker’s best horror film done on a tiny budget. the sequel is OK, but sadly from then it was downhill all the way. Prepare to travel beyond dreams and nightmares, into the realm of darkness and the furnaces of Hell as imagined by celebrated maestro of the macabre Clive Barker…
The Babadook
2014. Excellent modern Horror that pays tribute to some of the older B&W horror films mentioned here, especially the pioneering Horror Work of F. W. Murnau. Where there is imagination, there is darkness and from within that darkness lurks a being of unfathomable terror…
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013. Very stylish indie cult horror. Jim Jarmusch’s ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE tells the tale of two fragile and sensitive vampires, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), who have been lovers for centuries…
The Fog
1980. John Carpenter mini classic. Hammy as. According to legend, six sailors killed when shipwrecked 100 years ago in Antonio Bay, California, will rise to avenge their deaths when a strange glowing fog appears…
Suspiria
1977. Lots of Hitchcockian touches. Widely considered to be the most shocking and hallucinatory horror movie in history, and described by director Dario Argento as “an escalating experimental nightmare”…
Colour Out of Space
2019. One of two totally bonkers Nick Cage entries in this list. And then there’s the Llamas… A cosmic nightmare from the minds of H.P. Lovecraft (Re-Animator) and cult director, Richard Stanley (Hardware)…
Carnival of Souls
1962. Surrealist cult-classic. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) mysteriously survives a car wreck. In an effort to put this traumatizing incident behind her, she moves to Utah where she takes on a job as a church organist. However, her fresh new start is interrupted by the haunting, relentless presence of a strange man (Herk Harvey) who seems to follow wherever she goes. As her sightings of the man increase, she finds herself drawn to the dilapidated carnival on the outskirts of town…
White Zombie
1932. Considered Hollywood’s first full length zombie film, WHITE ZOMBIE follows Murder Legendre (horror legend Bela Lugosi), the menacingly named zombie master of Haiti. Still creepy with nods to German expressionism…
Willy’s Wonderland
2021. So bad it’s good. A totally guilty pleasure pick. A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned WILLY’S WONDERLAND, however mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival…
