With his new film The Lighthouse expanding to even more theaters this weekend – in limited release for the past couple weeks, it has pulled in $4 million thus far – The Witch director Robert Eggers took part in an Ask-Me-Anything session over on Reddit this week, fielding questions from horror fans eager to dig inside the mind of a true genre visionary.
When Eggers was asked to name his personal favorite horror movie, he went several steps further by listing off TWENTY SIX of them. The list fittingly began with Nosferatu, the 1922 classic that Eggers has been developing a new take on for many years. He noted during the AMA that there’s nothing new to report on that front, but that he’s still eager to bring it to life.
If you’re looking for some great horror movies to watch on Halloween, or any day of the year for that matter, here are 26 that Robert Eggers considers all-time classics!
- Nosferatu, Murnau, 1922
- The Shining, Kubrick, 1980
- Possession, Żuławski, 1981
- Alien, Scott, 1979
- Psycho, Hitchcock, 1960
- The Innocents, Clayton, 1961
- The Piano Teacher, Haneke, 2001
- Cries & Whispers, Bergman, 1972
- The Tenant, Polanski, 1976
- Angst, Gerald Kargl, 1983
- Rosemary’s Baby, Polanski, 1968
- Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo, 1965
- Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Wiene, 1920
- The Devil, Żuławski, 1972
- Hour of the Wolf, Bergman, 1968
- Blue Velvet, Lynch, 1986
- Lost Highway, Lynch, 1997
- Mulholland Drive, Lynch, 2001
- Twentynine Palms, Bruno Dumont, 2003
- The Exorcist, Friedkin, 1973
- Don’t Look Now, Roeg, 1973
- The Birds, Hitchcock, 1963
- Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein, 1928
- Repulsion, Polanski, 1965
- The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983
- Häxan, Benjamin Christensen, 1922
You can browse the full Q&A session with Eggers over on Reddit/Movies.
