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Robert Eggers Lists Off 26 of His Favorite Horror Films During Reddit Ask-Me-Anything
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.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
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