Movies that Moved Me

A curator’s curation

Frankenstein

1931 [1975]. By Peggy Webling (play) & Mary Shelley (book). Directed by James Whale.

The Screaming Skull

1958 [1975]. By John Kneubuhl. Directed by Alex Nicol.

Matango (マタンゴ)

1963 [1976]. By Takeshi Kimura. Directed by Ishirō Honda.

“Furankenshutain tai Baragon”

Frankenstein Conquers the World

1966 [1978]. By Takeshi Kimura. Directed by Ishirō Honda.

Uprooted from my family and home and surrounded by knife-weilding New Yorkers, and then I have to deal with this face plus that scary-delay guitar.

The Menagerie

1966 [1978]. By Gene Roddenberry. Directed by Marc Daniels; Robert Butler.

The Crimson Cult

1970 [1975]. By Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln. Directed by Vernon Sewell.

The Night Stalker

1972 [1975]. By Richard Matheson & Jeffrey Grant Rice (story). Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey.

Westworld

1973 [1976]. By Michael Crichton. Directed by Michael Crichton.

The Exorcist

1973 [1981]. By William Peter Blatty. Directed by William Freidkin.

We have a winner!

Trilogy of Terror

1975 [1975]. By Richard Matheson & William F. Nolan. Directed by Dan Curtis.

The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud

1975 [1977]. By Max Ehrlich & Max Ehrlich (novel). Directed by J. Lee Thompson.

Burnt Offerings

1976 [1978]. By Dan Curtis, William F. Nolan & Robert Marasco (novel). Directed by Dan Curtis.

Magic

1978. By William Goldman. Directed by Richard Attenborough.

By far and without a doubt the best network TV horror in history

Salem’s Lot

1979 [1979]. By Paul Monash & Stephen King (book). Directed by Tobe Hooper.

The Shining

1980. By Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick & Stephen King (book). Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Evilspeak

1981 [1983]. By Joseph Garofalo & Eric Weston. Directed by Eric Weston.

Possession

1983 [1984]. By Andrzej Zulawski & Frederic Tuten. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski.

2010: The Year We Make Contact

1984. By Peter Hyams & Arthur C. Clarke (book). Directed by Peter Hyams.

Gothic

1986. By Stephen Volk. Directed by Ken Russell.

Naked Lunch

1991 [1992]. By David Cronenberg. Directed by David Cronenberg.

The Lawnmower Man

1992. By Brett Leonard. Directed by Brett Leonard.