00:00I'm 12 years old, but I've been there for a long time.
00:30Themes of social hierarchy and classism come into play within 2016's Train to Busan.
00:46At the same time, however, this film from director Yong Sang-ho also never forgets to be captivatingly scary.
00:52The makeup effects upon the undead hordes here are convincing, with a sufficient gruesomeness
00:57that allows Train to Busan to feel at home within that long-standing legacy of zombie cinema.
01:18Meanwhile, the fast and hungry nature of the zombies here in Sang-ho's film
01:22is ripped from the World War Z and Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead mould.
01:26This allows for the intense pacing to reflect the fear present within the eyes of Busan's human protagonists.
01:45Number 9, Hau Su.
01:47The stories behind the production of 1977's House, aka Hau Su, rely on the strange and hallucinogenic imagery
02:02that resides within this celluloid head trip.
02:05Director Nobuhiko Obayashi's young daughter, Shigumi, actually receives story credit for the film.
02:20This could lead one to believe that Hau Su is going to be kid stuff.
02:23That isn't exactly the case, however, since Obayashi's film melds together absurdity and morbidity
02:29in a manner unlike anything else released to the screen.
02:45The tone of Hau Su vacillates wildly to be sure, but it's the unpredictability of this thrill ride
02:50that makes watching this vividly striking horror film so much fun.
03:06Number 8, Ringu.
03:08Horror fans bore witness to a glut of Americanized remakes of Japanese horror movies during the early 2000s.
03:25The Ring from 2002 was one of the most successful of this lot.
03:28Although, for our money, there's no beating the original source material, Ringu, from 1998.
03:33The plot of a cursed videotape remains relatively unchanged between both the American and Japanese takes to the Ring,
03:39but the visuals of Ringu really set the stylistic template high for its competitors.
03:58This was a horror film that connected with an audience and refused to release its watery grip.
04:02Number 7, Eyes Without a Face.
04:14We, as horror fans, might occasionally take for granted many of the stylistic tropes that have been established by older films,
04:21classics like 1960s Eyes Without a Face from French filmmaker Georges Franju.
04:24The screenplay here allows plenty of room for its main antagonist, Dr Genessier, to retain understandable motivations for his crimes.
04:33Genessier has dedicated himself to restoring physical beauty to his daughter, Christiane,
04:39the latter of whom has suffered severe facial wounds from an automobile accident.
04:53The mask worn by Genessier's daughter deliberately obscures these wounds,
05:09although Christiane's eyes express both pain and sorrow to the audience.
05:13Eyes that may not have a face, but which burrow deep into our collective soul nonetheless.
05:18Number 6, The Wailing.
05:34This South Korean film from 2016 incorporates elements from multiple genres within its final product,
05:49including classic zombie cinema, occult horror tropes, and even old school police procedurals.
05:54The Wailing is ultimately a scary film at its core, however,
05:57a modern horror classic that takes its time washing over the viewer,
06:00but bears much fruit for those dedicated to its narrative.
06:10Worlds of Eastern mysticism and an uncomfortable, almost impenetrable darkness lurk within the shadows of The Wailing,
06:16an exercise in atmospheric terror that doesn't hold the audience's hand,
06:20but instead almost dares them to come along for the journey.
06:32Number 5, Cure.
06:34This Japanese horror film from 1997 may not be discussed as often as Ringu or Ju-On, The Grudge,
06:46but The Cure more than deserves its place as an influential slice of J-horror.
06:52Writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa inserts elements of police procedurals and psychological horror into this story of strange killings and even stranger killers,
07:10all of which are left with more questions than answers.
07:13What do you call that person's name?
07:15What do you call that person's name?
07:16What do you call that person's name?
07:17What do you call that person's name?
07:18What do you call that person's name?
07:19What do you call that person?
07:20Cure also has aged quite well over the years and comes as highly recommended for those seeking out a little bit of contextual history
07:31regarding Japan's horror boom during the late 90s and early millennium.
07:35The genesis of the found-footage style of horror filmmaking can largely be traced back to Italy's cannibal holocaust from 1980.
08:03However, Spanish movies such as Wreck from 2007 serve as worthy connective tissue for that country's rich cinematic history
08:10that dates all the way back to the 1950s and 60s.
08:13Wreck proved that the found-footage style could deliver some truly legitimate scares.
08:18This is thanks primarily to the anything-goes atmosphere that lurks behind every corner of Wreck.
08:26Cinematographer Tom Doyle creates unpredictability and chaos via the first-person viewpoint,
08:31incorporating shaky camera angles before this approach became too old-hat.
08:36The results that never feel cheap and remain fairly thrilling even by the standards of today.
08:41Mano!
08:42Mano!
08:43Mano!
08:44Mano!
08:45Mano!
08:46Mano!
08:51He won!
08:52Go!
08:53Go!
08:54God!
08:55The reputation of Audition from director Takashi Miike has travelled fairly far and wide within horror circles at this point.
09:16This is despite Miike's film not really becoming a true horror film until its final act.
09:20This is when we realise that the widower character, Shigaharu, who's been auditioning potential new girlfriends, has made one serious mistake.
09:34Her name is Asami, and although Shigaharu's behaviour hasn't exactly been on the up-and-up throughout Audition,
09:41what happens to both him and Asami at the film's climax has to be seen to be believed.
09:50Number two, Suspiria.
10:20The world of Italian horror is vast, with many peaks and valleys.
10:27It also includes a number of crossover hits, including Suspiria from 1977.
10:32This masterpiece from director Dario Argento and screenwriter Daria Nicolodi
10:37inserts occult mysticism, dance and even dark fairy tales into the mix.
10:42The outcome is as potent as anything released within Italy or anywhere else.
10:52A violent yet perversely beautiful film, with gorgeous colours and iconic music.
10:57Additionally, the murder set pieces here are wince-inducing and beyond grotesque.
11:02An almost prurient exercise in bloody excess from one of Italy's most brutal maestros.
11:08Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honourable mentions.
11:22Black Sunday, Mario Bava's moody gothic masterpiece.
11:25In the 17th century, Satan was abroad on the earth.
11:31And great was the wrath against those monstrous beings thirsty for human blood,
11:36to whom tradition has given the name of vampires.
11:40The orphanage.
11:41Atmosphere for days.
11:43Un, dos, tres, toca la pared.
11:45Angst, not to your average stalk and slash.
12:09The platform, a dystopian sci-fi-horror hybrid.
12:32Don't torture a duckling.
12:36Small-town secrets and hypocrisy reign in this cult giallo.
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13:08Number one, let the right one in.
13:11I can't be with you.
13:12Just so you know.
13:15What do you mean?
13:17Beast.
13:18There must be a reason.
13:21It's like that.
13:22It must be a difficult task for the average screenwriter to try and reinvest, as best they can, established creatures such as vampires.
13:32This is essentially why Let the Right One In affected so many viewers back when it was released in 2008.
13:38This Swedish film not only featured talented young leads with a legitimately compelling relationship in chemistry.
13:44Let the Right One In also made sure to include true, died-in-the-wall horror elements,
13:48as well as some sinister subtext that's never truly made clear.
13:52It's not true.
13:54No.
13:56It's not true.
13:58I've forgotten what to do.
13:59Instead, this cinematic adaptation of Jean-Avidé Lindquist's novel
14:04tackles thematic elements of love, violence and loneliness,
14:08the latter of which might be the most frightening emotion of all.
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