John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987)
Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932)
William Castle’s The Tingler (1959)
Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession (1981)
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931)
George A. Romero’s Martin (1977)
Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965)
Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963)
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980)
Honorable Mentions: F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, Brian De Palma’s Carrie, Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, Frank Darabont’s The Mist, Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
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