□ Cinema’s creepiest anthology horror movies □ The best new horror movies of 2023 (so far) Written by Tom Huddleston, Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Nigel Floyd, Phil de Semlyen, David Ehrlich, Joshua Rothkopf, Nigel Floyd, Andy Kryza, Alim Kheraj and Matthew Singer Here are the 100 greatest horror movies ever made. So if you’ve spent too much of your film fandom dismissing horror, consider this your guide to everything you’ve missed. The recent artistic and commercial success of films like Get Out, A Quiet Place and Talk to Me have brought retroactive respect to a genre once synonymous with schlock. Not long ago, it was mainly a niche interest, ignored by mass audiences and shrugged off by critics. Of course, horror hasn’t always been a moneymaker. Even if a movie doesn’t necessarily touch on the things that personally scare us the most, allowing ourselves to be scared at all helps us confront and ease the anxieties and fears that keep us paralysed. Perhaps that explains why horror has grown into one of the most popular of all film genres. But deep down, even the most posturing tough guy harbours deep-seated fears. It might be something specific, like spiders or snakes or heights, or something less tangible, like death or failure. Frances Lee McCain as Dr.Everyone is scared of something.Brian Bedford as Sherlock Holmes, Stewart Dean.Elizabeth Ashley as Karen Lawson / Kate Lawson.Melissa Sue Anderson as Laura Donovan, Julie Fenton.Helena Kallianiotes as Maria Kyprianov (Segment "An Unlocked Window").Jonathan Goldsmith as Manager (Segment "Bang! You're Dead!").Bill Mumy as Supermarket Clerk (Segment "Bang! You're Dead!").Lyman Ward as Uncle Jack (Segment "Bang! You're Dead!").Kim Novak as Rosa (Segment "Man From The South").Tippi Hedren as Waitress (Segment "Man From The South").Steven Bauer as Gambler (Segment "Man From The South").Richard Lineback as Billy (segment "Incident In A Small Jail").Bruce Davison as Betty Ames/Baker (segment "An Unlocked Window").Annette O'Toole as Stella (segment "An Unlocked Window"). Melanie Griffith as Girl (segment "Man from the South").John Huston as Carlos/Narrator (segment "Man from the South").Tony Frank as Sheriff Noakes (segment "Incident in a Small Jail").Lee Ving as Curt Venner (segment "Incident in a Small Jail").Ned Beatty as Larry Broome (segment "Incident in a Small Jail").Name directors who helmed episodes included Tim Burton, David Chase, Burt Reynolds, Atom Egoyan, Joan Tewkesbury, and Thomas Carter. The new series lasted only one season before NBC cancelled it, but it was then produced for three more years by USA Network (which is now co-owned with NBC under NBCUniversal), and shifted production from Los Angeles to Toronto, where the show's new Canadian producing partner Paragon Motion Pictures was based, along with several budget cuts to the series. The film was a ratings success.Ī new Alfred Hitchcock Presents series debuted in the fall of 1985 and retained the same format as the film – newly filmed stories (a mixture of original works and updated remakes of original series episodes) with colorized introductions by Hitchcock. The segments were "Incident in a Small Jail," adapted and directed by Joel Oliansky, "Man from the South," adapted and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, "Bang! You're Dead!," adapted by Harold Swanton and Christopher Crowe and directed by Randa Haines, and "An Unlocked Window," adapted and directed by Fred Walton. In 1985, NBC aired a new made-for-television film based upon the series, combining newly filmed stories with colorized footage of Alfred Hitchcock from the original series introducing each segment. The series is an updated version of the 1955 eponymous series. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, sometimes called The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986 and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989.
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