Do You See What I See
This 2007 trendsetter was marketed through a “vote to bring this movie to your city” promotion. Whether or not that had any impact, this ghostly tripod adventure shot for $15k made $193mm, the most profitable ROI in film history.
Paranormal Activity
You heard it here first, folks. Jolly Old Saint Nick himself is getting into the premier steaks business with this, his flagship restaurant.
Ruth’s Kris Kringle Steakhouse
Buttoned up eyes? A talking cat that may or may not be Keith David from The Thing but was definitely Neil Gaimon in the Simpsons parody? Dakota Fanning stars as this titular character.
Coraline
Not particularly known for his quiet composure, this chainsaw wielding star of Mandy more recently made headlines as a fight-clubbing, truffle-hunting fictional chef.
Nicholas Cage
Dracula, Dracula again, opposite Boris Karloff in five movies, Ed Wood’s friend, Dracula again.
Bela Lugosi
Harry Potter it is not, but the Philosopher’s Stone does figure mightily into this archeological jaunt into the Parisian catacombs.
As Above, So Below
This, the hypothetical cognitive bias stating that people with low aptitude for haunting children in their dreams overestimate their ability, while those with high aptitude for outfitting customized knife-gloves underestimate their ability.
The Dunning Freddy Krueger Effect
In 1993, Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood starred in this tale of two boys, one who loves his mother, and one who tortures animals, doesn’t play nice on ice, and causes traffic accidents.
The Good Son
From Lost Highway to Eraserhead, nearly every output of media this writer/director has touched either flirts with or outright embraces surrealism and horror
David Lynch
Doc Halloran, Freddy Krueger, randomly appearing in over two dozen straight to video B flicks.
Robert Englund
One of the freshest quasi-recent entries in American possession horror, this 91% rotten tomatoes gem from 2014 follows film students making a documentary about a woman with Alzheimer’s disease; or so they think.
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Sure, this actress would like to live deliciously, if that’s the only price to pay for Earth receiving her king. Wonders of His love, indeed.
Anya Taylor-Joy to the World
A bloody and bizarre cinematic nightmare exploring motherhood, 1979’s “The Brood” was penned and shot by this Canadian auteur also responsible for Scanners, Dead Ringers, and Eastern Promises.
David Cronenberg
Surely better known for creating “Mandy”, Panos Cosmatos’s only other directing credit is this 2010 Arboria Institute shoegaze scifi.
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Jason Voorhees, Victor Crowley, Ed Gein,
Kane Hodder
This terrifying Japanese effort from 2005 recounts the final tapes made by a now-missing paranormal investigator as his path crosses with spooky children, eccentric psychics, and the powerful demon Kagutaba.
Noroi: The Curse
This Yeti-like monstrosity (Bumble, for short), lived out his days on the island of misfit toys listening to his favorite “Bad” 1988 single.
The Abominable SnowMan in the Mirror
First adapted for film in 1960, the goings on in an especially unpleasant town originally based on 1957 science fiction novel “The Midwich Cuckoos”, was remade in 1995 by none other than John Carpenter.
Village of the Damned
Speaking of Panos Cosmatos, four years before making Tombstone, his father George Cosmatos directed this underwater mining movie that drew from Alien as much as it honored The Thing.
Leviathan
Otis B. Driftwood, Deadite Captain, Chop-Top.
Bill Moseley
A web show of paranormal investigations covering urban legends. Well, that’s only the plot of at least fifteen movies, including this, a 2010 chiller out of Spain. Easter holiday, hedge mazes, spooky children lost forever down the well. What’s not to like?
Atrocious
The latest in a line of Norman Osborn wannabe honorifics, this American director has shot his share of jack-o-lanterns, but I hear he prefers Pineapple.
David Gordon Green Goblin
Before sharing with the world her heaven-made match between Joaquin Phoenix and a hammer, Lynne Ramsay gave us this adaptation,less about an antichrist and more about social contagion, the guilt of inaction, and difficult conversations.
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Spike Lee’s “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” (2014) is a remake of this underappreciated 1973 arthouse horror, panned upon release because critics, producers, and even audiences expected a more straightforward blaxploitation paint-by-numbers. The bloodthirsty Myrthians had other plans.
Ganja and Hess
Doctor Van Helsing, Doctor Victor Frankenstein, Baron Frankenstein.
Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin?)