With Halloween fast approaching, we take this freakiest of Fridays...Friday the 13th, to look at horror movies and see if today's films stack up against old classics like Nightmare on Elm Street or The Shining. Laura's guest is Garen Daly, Exchange Film Commentator and Artistic Director of the Peterborough Community Theatre.
Garen Daly's Top 13 Fright Films
1. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)
2. Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)
3. I Walked With a Zombie (1943, Jacques Tourneur)
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
5. Curse of Frankenstein (1957, Terence Fisher)
6. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
7. The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George Romero) / Dawn of the Dead (1978, George Romero)
9. The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
10. Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)
11. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
12. Evil Dead II (1987, Sam Raimi)
13. The Ring (2002, Gore Verbinski)
(Dis) Honorable Mentions:
- Re-Animator
(1985, Stuart Gordon)
- Poltergeist (1981, Tobe Hooper)
- Alien (1980, Ridley Scott)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
- An American Werewolf in London (1981, John Landis)
- Friday the 13th (1980, Sean S. Cunningham)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven)
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
- Them! (1954, Gordon Douglas)
- The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright)
- Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
