Director: George Sluizer. 86. Hazel Court. Director: Chris Kentis. 85. This list greatly amuses me. I havent seen several of the films in their top-ten list. I have seen youtube videos that have much more a scare to offer. Barton Heyman. Director: Tobe Hooper. But I definitely think this one should be added. Socially conscious & political cinema. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The Birds (1963). This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time/Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Film Critics' Choices - Page 3 show list info list stats leaders vote print comments How many have you seen? The festival opens with a screening of Sundance Audience Award winner CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH (pictured) with filmmaker and star Cooper Raiff in attendance and closes with SXSW Grand Jury and Audience Award winner I LOVE MY DAD, a charming comedy starring Patton Oswalt as a well-meaning father who inadvertently catfishes his own son. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). Have you seen it? And finally, only one film among the Chicago Film Critics top 100 scariest movies of all time has a woman director. 2. Christopher Eccleston. Jenny Wright. Robert Englund. The Omen (1976). Pocket. Tweets. Now, I do enjoy reading lists depending on who is doing them, of course. Kristen Stewart was named Best Actress for her role as Princess Diana in SPENCER; Ruth Negga was named Best Supporting Actress for PASSING. Roddy McDowall. Filming of Let's Scare Jessica to Death took place in various towns and villages in Connecticut, largely in Middlesex County. 11. xDD. Una O Connor was a big hit with the audience as well as Ernest Thesigers highly flamboyant performance as Dr. Frankensteins comrade in his experiments (Thesiger was also a big hit earlier that day with his performance in Whales The Old Dark House)But, while I dont consider the film a horror film in the traditional sense, I also wouldnt classify it as a comedy. Irreversible: Straight Cut. Se7en (1995). Director: Wes Craven. Audiences selected Closing Night feature presentation I LOVE MY DAD as winner of the Audience Award for narrative features; the film screened to a sold . I trusted their instincts because they had a concrete experience of audiences. The Thing (1982). Honestly makes you wonder who the hell these film critics are. Which The Night Stalker? C. Thomas Howell. Cast: Neve Campbell. Ask 100 people what the 10 Greatest Romantic Films are, and guarenteed youll get different responses depending upon the person and theyre experiences in life. Director: Werner Herzog. Director: Terence Fisher. Movies. The Brides of Dracula (1960). Shaun of the Dead (2004). Shelley Duvall. Director: Michael Powell. Director: Roger Corman. "The Devil's Backbone" (2001) Good Machine. Burt Reynolds. Image of Boris Karloff and Gloria Stuart in The Old Dark House: Universal Pictures. Great movie and book, but nothing scary to it. 70. Follow-up post: Full list of the Chicago Film Critics Associations Top 100 Horror Movies Ever Made, including their directors and key cast members. Wrapping this up, its worth noting that four of the Chicago Film Critics top 100 scariest movies are made-for-television productions: Dan Curtis Bram Stokers Dracula and Trilogy of Terror, Tobe Hoopers Salems Lot, and John Llewellyn Moxeys The Night Stalker. [56][57], Sara Century, writing for Syfy, noted the significance of the film: "While the response is entirely subjective and it isnt a film for everyone, Jessica did in many ways serve as a forerunner for what would come later, as filmmakers like David Lynch would delve into dreamscapes that refused to sustain themselves explicitly in cohesive narratives. In fact, Onibaba is the only Japanese horror film included on the list; in other words, no Godzilla. Jeannine Taylor. Director: Herk Harvey. M (1930). Max von Sydow. By Darel Jevens. 81. Near Dark (1987). Cmon! In 2006, the Chicago Film Critics Association pronounced Let's Scare Jessica to Death one of the scariest films ever made. Woody, who has been working in the orchard, returns to the house, where Emily bites his neck. Cast: Boris Karloff. "[42] Author and independent filmmaker John Kenneth Muir gave the film 3 1/2 out of 4 stars, praising the film's cinematography, "unsettling" mood, and its ability to generate a sense of unease, calling it "very disturbing" and noting its "lovely and poetic" visuals. Cast: Olga Baclanova. Cast: Zohra Lampert. Ellen Sandweiss. David Manners. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Director: Alejandro Amenbar. Creature From The Black Lagoon was excellent for its time, but thanks alot Chicago times for putting a 50s Sci-fi on your top 100 Horror movies, hehehe. Nosferatu 14. Sybille Schmitz. Initially conceived by writer Lee Kalcheim as a satirical horror film about a group of hippies preyed upon by a monster in a lake, the screenplay was significantly reworked after director Hancock signed on to the project. Misery (1990). 82. 3. Richard Dreyfuss. Cast: Ellen Burstyn. I wanted to do a movie that was legitimately terrifying. Claiming the organization's top honor as Best Picture of the year is THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, directed by Martin McDonagh.The film also earned awards for Best Actor (Colin Farrell), Best Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon) and Best Original Screenplay (Martin McDonagh). Kevin OConnor. 3. She collapses in the orchard and later is found by Duncan, who takes her home. My mother mentioned being very moved after watching it. It was quite freaky, but I left watching the Exorcist completely freaked out. Jason Miller. 9. As for the people who bitch about lists, you need to relax. Cast: Roy Scheider. Examples include Alfred Hitchcocks widely revered Psycho, which happens to be the top film on the list; Rob Reiners Misery, less a horror movie than a (not very suspenseful) suspense thriller; William Friedkins The Exorcist, despite all the avocado vomit and Mercedes McCambridges demon voice; and M. Night Shyamalans Signs, which has aliens killing off a few billion humans just so Mel Gibson can have his faith in God restored. We might have our personal opinions as to what we like or dont like, but that hardly etches it in stone. Let me know how you feel and tell Roger Ebert to stick it. Contrarily to some comments, I agree to putting Psycho on N one - it still works, even on adults. Decades later, still get heebie-geebies thinking about Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966) Scariest movie EVER!!! Ken Foree. lists. Night of the Living Dead (1968) 6. 88. 49. Jessica and Duncan spot the woman standing on the cliff above them, causing Duncan to give chase. 99. Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cast: Naomi Watts. The Tingler, with Vincent Price, is one of my favorites. Jessica is afraid to talk about these things with Duncan or Woody, for fear that they will think she is relapsing. Tony Moran. Peeping Tom (1958). Fright Night (1985). You cant, simply because film appreciation is such an incredibly subjective thing. Its actually quite a touching film because it speaks to elements of lonliness, societal ostracism, and to the desire for all living beings to be loved and accepted. Painfully retarded. Well, all credibility goes right in the poop saloon, as far as Im concerned. Phantasm (1979). 34. Yvonne Monlaur. Black Sunday / La maschera del demonio (1960). Flipboard. May 12. Director: David Fincher. Sidney Berger. Take the horror element out of the film and its a fascinating look at mans inhumanity to one another, and their inability to see past external superficialities. Dont Look Now (1973). Geena Davis. Director: John Llewellyn Moxey. Bram Stokers Dracula (1974, TV). 89. Michael Caine. Wallace Ford. Cast: Marilyn Burns. John Cassavetes. Director: Bob Clark. In their bedroom, the couple go to lie down; Jessica notices a cut on Duncan's neck, and Emily then enters the room brandishing a knife, with the townsmen following behind her. (Note: Don Siegels original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is on the list, but Kurt Neumanns original The Fly, in which Patricia Owens screams her head off, is not.). Director: Tobe Hooper. Indeed it is. Cast: Barbara Steele. Dead Alive / Braindead (1992). Director: Edgar Wright. [8], In writing the role of Jessica, Hancock sought to create a filmic equivalent to the unreliable narrator in literary fiction. I definitely remember that it wasnt at all a scary movie., I do have the DVD here. Make sure your comment adds something relevant to the discussion: Feel free to disagree with us and write your own movie commentaries, but *thoughtfulness* and *at least a modicum of sanity* are imperative. In a more casual setting, lists can be fun among friends to seeing what other people enjoy. But I do miss Eraserhead: After seeing a trailer when I was 20, I waited ten years to collect the courage to see it - and I did well do do so. John Richardson. Director: Wes Craven. "[41] Film scholar Gary A. Smith remarked Lampert's performance as Jessica as "laid back to the point of somnambulism. 24. Jessica Tandy. Cast: Kim Hunter. I think it may have been the first contemporary movie Clint Eastwood did; it certainly was the first one in which he was stalked. Brendan Gleeson. The new critics represent a a variety of film journalism in Chicago and bring their voices to one of the countrys longest-standing and most accomplished associations of writers. Director: Philip Kaufman. [43] Film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film 2 1/2 out of a possible 4 stars, calling it "creepy. Director: Jonathan Demme. Peter Wyngarde. [15], In preparation, both Lampert and Costello worked with acting coach Mira Rostova for their respective roles in the film. Cast: Carol Kane. [47], The film was released on VHS and Beta by Paramount Pictures in 1984,[48] but later went out of print and was difficult to obtain. Who were the posers who came up with that? Cast: Gregory Peck. 57. Linda Blair. Cast: Richard Attenborough. Cast: Jeff Goldblum. Freaks (1932). "[32] The San Francisco Examiner's Stanley Eichelbaum also noted deficiencies in the screenplay, noting that the film "seems improvised and nothing could be worse for this kind of structured suspense thriller. Jessica forces him to sleep on the couch, where he is seduced by Emily. 14. Of Jessica's frustration with a mental condition that has rendered her sadly dependent on men? Naomie Harris. As I said in my previous post, those lists are good selling tools. The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Haley Joel Osment. When the woman is caught and questioned by the couple, she remains silent and quickly flees when Emily approaches. Tweets & replies. That being said, PSYCHO CANT BE NUMBER ONE! Deliverance? "Night of the Living Dead (1968)" 6. 84. Julia Adams. Also, simply saying you were utterly unimpressed by Psycho is like dismissing Shakespeare as a hack or the Beatles as overrated. Diabolique is far scarier than Rosemarys Baby, or 4 or 5 of the otther Top 10. Alien (1979). 98. Martin Henderson. As the plot develops, we learn that the world around Jessica is scarier than anything her mind could concoct. See also: Fay Wray, Lee Patrick, Edwige Fenech, and Mary Philbin among the movies' " Top Ten Scream Queens ." 1. Shelley Hack. How comes the Grudge isnt there, and I even hate modern day slashers and CGIs, but that was a stylish Japanese chilling horror film? Alan Arkin. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces nominees for their top film honors of 2022; winners will be announced at the organizations annual awards ceremony to be held in Chicago on Wednesday, December 14. 4. [7] Doyle elaborates that the film "isolates and illuminates the death and corruption of counterculture values" from the era, and anticipates the "festering paranoia" that occurred throughout the 1970s, with the Watergate scandal, the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, and the Jonestown massacre. Anna Faris. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)" 9. Craven is followed by George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Martin) and Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist, Salems Lot). [4] [5] [6] Nomadland received the most nominations (7), followed by Da 5 Bloods (6), First Cow (6) and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (6). "Jaws" 7. Explore the schedule now, and snag your tickets before they're gone. I havent really read a great deal about James Whale(Havent gotten around to the biography yet), but I find that aspect of the film quite interesting considering Whale was a gay director. Director: Sam Raimi. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Laura Dern. Dawn of the Dead (1978) 10. Cast: Rod Taylor. Cast: Peter Cushing. Jitsuko Yoshimura. Cast: Kevin McCarthy. Ralph Bellamy. Thats Near Dark (1987), directed by eventual Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker). Sarah Berry. [2] Principal photography began in November of that year in Old Saybrook. Richard Johnson. The montage of several other movies that I would consider to be comedic is astounding, but perhaps none so much (in my opinion) as seeing Shaun of the Dead at #62, three ABOVE Salo. Janet Leigh. Cast: Terry OQuinn. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920). Director: Dan Curtis. You gotta be kidding. [14] Auditions for the parts were held in the B.S. 67. 5. 54. "[38] She also praised the performances of Lampert and Costello, as well as those of Heyman and O'Connor, but noted of the latter that their "characters are not well developed by the script. The Sixth Sense (1999). 28 Days Later (2002). Cast: Betsy Palmer. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Tom Conway. Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland" has earned seven nominations for 2020 honors from the Chicago Film Critics Association, followed by six each for Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods,R 79. Cast: Robert Mitchum. The Silence of the Lambs 12. Scream (1996). 36. 12. Director: Robert Harmon. It wasnt really a horror, but if they made it a spookier theme, it would have been so. Claudia Christian. Jaws (1975). Director: David Cronenberg. Michael Nouri. Campbell Scott. I need to check it out again. 73. Director: Dario Argento. Signs (2002). "hippie values. Onibaba (1964). Jane Asher. Psycho 2. Hilary Mason. Of course, it could always be that Lon Chaney, and Japanese neo-horror and monster movies havent been made available in Chicago. [8] Hancock stated that "the scenes didn't make much sense to me, but the Mosses felt they would be particularly enjoyable and scary. Furthermore, remember that critics lists are collaborative as well as representative, so there is pressure to give equal respect to titles of different eras. [13], Hancock, who had worked as a theater director prior, cast the film largely through his connections within the New York theater community, and the majority of the cast consisted of actors with whom Hancock had worked in stage productions. For me, its still the most unquieting, disturbing and scary movie ever. Ian Hendry. [52] The Blu-ray was released on January 28, 2020 and includes a commentary track from director John D. Hancock and producer Phil Badalato, interviews with composer Orville Stoeber and historian Kim Newman, a documentary on the filming locations, and other bonus features. Director: Tod Browning. Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis. Theres a really interesting relationship between Karloffs character as the mute manservant and the insane brother Saul which the family has kept hidden in the attic. Director: Jack Arnold. Jaws isnt horror, its a boring animal/adventure movie and its rated PG, not R. Alien is number 4 and its by default a Sci-fi, and I didnt like it at all, Jurrassic Park is also an animal/adventure. Just as curiously, a number of movies whether great, bad, or mediocre that gave me nightmares for days (or weeks) are absent from the list. A full . Below is the list of the Chicago Film Critics' Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time, including their directors and key cast members. Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 American independent horror film co-written and directed by John Hancock in his directorial debut, and starring Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett, and Mariclare Costello. IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. 25. 'RoboCop': All the Failed Attempts to Adapt the Movie to TV. Though completed without a distributor, the film was purchased by Paramount Pictures, who gave it a wide release in the United States in late August 1971. Claiming the organizations top honors is Jane Campions masterful THE POWER OF THE DOG, which earned a leading seven awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Best Supporting Actor (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score. Award recipients can be either college students pursuing a career in journalism or up-and-coming entertainment critics with three years or less experience in their career development. It definitely beats that list they play on TV every Halloween! Lastly, links found in submitted comments will generally be deleted. The film was difficult to obtain on home media formats for several decades, available only on VHS until 2006, when Paramount issued a DVD version. Deliverance (1972). Director: Kaneto Shind. Sounds reasonable. Cast: Drew Barrymore. One or two scenes were frightening in Alien, and Halloween was very good. Dennis Hopper. Joan Bennett. Dennis Dugan. 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[27] Paramount gave the film a wide theatrical release in the United States. Other surprises because theyre nowhere to be found on the Scariest Movies list despite their hair-raising reputation include: Also inexplicably missing from the Chicago Film Critics list of scariest movies ever made is Lon Chaney, whose star vehicles at Universal and MGM include both well-known classics and forgotten gems of the horror or at least the creepy genre, among them The Phantom of the Opera and The Unknown, in which he cuts off his arms in order to win the heart of a very young Joan Crawford (dont ask). But the Chicago Film Critics Association's list of the 100 Scariest Movies Ever Made, which came out in October 2006, does include several oldies - e.g., James Whale's Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein - in addition to, gasp!, a handful of non-American horror films such as Dario Argento's Suspiria, Werner Herzog 's Nosferatu the Vampyre, "[49] In the early 2010s, London's Time Out conducted a poll with several authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films, who ranked the film number 86 in a list of 100 films.[58]. God's Time. The film depicts the nightmarish experiences of a psychologically fragile woman who comes to believe that another strange, mysterious young woman she has let into her home may actually be a vampire. Rotten Tomatoes, entertainment fans go-to resource for movie, TV and streaming recommendations, and the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) announced today the inaugural recipients of the Emerging Critics Grant program, designed to support diverse aspiring critics from the Chicago area. Donald Pleasence. Also, you wont find any neo-horror Japanese films e.g., Hideo Nakatas Ring, Takashi Shimizus Ju-on: The Grudge on the Chicago Film Critics list even though theyve found a large audience worldwide. God Told Me To (1976). 6. Like Bram Stokers Dracula. Yes, The Old Dark House is terrific. 22. [11], Let's Scare Jessica to Death was filmed over a period of 26 days[2] in the fall of 1970, in various towns in Connecticut;[16] the production budget was $250,000. He felt close to the material as it spoke to him in some bizarre way. The Howling (1981). Ive not yet seen the 1974, made for TV version, but the 1992 film is nearly unbeatable. Purchased by producer Charles B. Moss, Kalcheim's original screenplay, entitled "It Drinks Hippie Blood",[2] followed a group of hippies camping on a cove who are attacked by a creature that lives in the water. 21. Edith Scob. Bill Paxton. Neither Psycho or The Exorcist are even remotely scary. The Trial of the Chicago 7 Alan Baumgarten Best Foreign Language Film Winner Another Round Druk (original title) Bacurau Beanpole Dylda (original title) Collective Colectiv (original title) La llorona Vitalina Varela Best Original Score Winner Soul Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste Da 5 Bloods Terence Blanchard Ma Rainey's Black Bottom You get a sense that perhaps there was a deep love and intimacy that existed between the two men. Simon Oakland. Salems Lot (1979, TV). 39. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan. Shelley Winters. Gay movies. Later, Jessica is grabbed by someone under the water in the cove while she is swimming. In 2006, the Chicago Film Critics Association pronounced Let's Scare Jessica to Death one of the scariest films ever made. 17. Dressed to Kill (1980). I didnt see REC and REC2 on this list. Scream 2 (1997). It was a fantastic film but doesnt deserve to be in the top 15. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, released their roster for 2022-2023 today, announcing the acceptance of four new members. I gotta watch that movie again. overall a good list.. i was especially happy they included lets scare jessica to death and god told me to- those are often overlooked, and great horror films. 15. The following day, Jessica, seeing how attracted Woody is to Emily, asks Duncan to invite her to stay indefinitely. [18] Barton Heyman and Kevin O'Connor were given the roles of Jessica's husband Duncan, and the couple's friend Woody, respectively; Hancock had worked with Heyman and O'Connor previously, as they had appeared in his 19671968 stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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