Sunday, May 30, 2010

Stephen King's Favorite Horror Films, Part II

Tonight, I give you Part II of the list I started yesterday, that is, Appendix I: The Films from the back of Stephen King’s nonfiction classic, “Danse Macabre.” The list is a best-of horror films list that King put together, covering films that came out between 1950 and 1980. Yesterday, I gave you those titled A-I, and today I give you the rest of the entire list.
Here they are, and, remember, King’s personal favorites are denoted with an asterisk (*):
- Jaws, 1975*
- The Killer Shrews, 1959
- Lady in a Cage, 1963*
- Last Summer, 1969
- Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, 1971*
- Macabre, 1958
- Martin, 1977*
- The Masque of the Red Death, 1964
- Night Must Fall, 1964
- The Night of the Hunter, 1955*
- Night of the Living Dead, 1968*
- Not of This Earth, 1956
- No Way to Treat a Lady, 1968
- Panic in the Year Zero, 1962
- Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1978*
- The Pit and the Pendulum, 1961
- Psycho, 1960*
- Rabid, 1977*
- Race with the Devil, 1975
- Repulsion, 1965*
- Rituals, 1978*
- Rosemary’s Baby, 1968*
- Salem’s Lot, 1979
- Séance of a Wet Afternoon, 1964
- Seizure, 1975
- The Seventh Seal, 1956*
- Sisters, 1973*
- The Shining, 1980*
- The Shout, 1979
- Someone’s Watching Me, 1978
- The Stepford Wives, 1975
- Strait-Jacket, 1964
- Suddenly Last Summer, 1960
- Suspiria, 1977*
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974*
- Them!, 1954*
- They Came from Within, 1975
- The Thing, 1951*
- The Tomb of Ligeia, 1965
- Trilogy of Terror, 1975
- Village of the Damned, 1960
- Wait Until Dark, 1967*
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, 1961*
- When Michael Calls, 1971
- The Wicker Man, 1973
- Willard, 1971
- X – the Man with X-Ray Eyes, 1963*
- X the Unknown, 1956
Let me know if you’ve seen any of these movies and what you thought about them. I’ve seen a few of them (and have even written about a few of them on this blog), but there are a few on this list that I’ve never heard of.


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