Nothing better than a good scary movie to cover your eyes in the fundamental scenes and not see it. It is what has that morbid taste for seeing the protagonist approaching the monstrous murderer asking that of Who is there ?. Who is it going to be, piece of quince, your mother-in-law with a plate of meatballs at 4 am?
Anyway, it is curious to discover the evolution of the horror genre in cinema. Because Freddy Krueger would hardly scare today's teens. And from poor Frankenstein even the children laugh. Currently I see less plot and more taste for gore. Although the matter of spirits that cannot break through in the tangible plane goes, the scriptwriter will already see to it that knives capable of piercing soft parts, decapitating, dismembering… human offal for the sinister side of today's avid minds fly. Today, if you are looking recommended horror movies, you sail in an immense ocean of blood, bile and other «humors» ... (takes eschatological image)
So you will call me romantic, nostalgic or whatever. But here I am going to bring you the ones that for me were or have been those three films capable of making my skin crawl and leading me down the hall to the bed next to the walls so that no zombie-ghost-vampire can bind me from behind. And yes, almost all of them have a retro point that surely does not convince current fans of the genre, but that many others will remember with that sensation of cold sweat, of a sheet and blanket up to your ears and the bride's squeeze that left your arm without circulation…
Top 3 Recommended Scary Movies
The Exorcist
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Almost fifty years separate us since the arrival of this film. And it is not that I am that old, but the film had to travel the world three or four times during several decades, to the rhythm of the head of the girl protagonist in her bed. Today it is listening to Mike Olfield's OST and making my hair stand on end. Test, test:
I saw this movie when I was about 12 years old. I don't think it was a very appropriate age. But it is that in the past the appropriate age was very relative. The diamonds were there so you wouldn't see a tit on TV. But no one knew about rhombuses or octahedra when summer movies came around. The thing is that after seeing her that late night I got into my bed and spent an early morning in Toledo, with the image of the girl vomiting, speaking in Aramaic and with her face full of sinister stigmata ...
I don't know... maybe I saw it now and it didn't seem that big a deal. Surely a remake with new special effects would be needed. Because these days certain effects of the eighties are scary. Seeing Linda Blair in her bunk today may seem as unlikely to me as Diana from the series V eating a rat. And yet, I insist, those scary stories had a point of better development than current thrillers.
The Shining
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:You could see it coming. That of the escape to a "cozy hotel", with its hundreds of rooms and its endless carpeted corridors, located in the middle of a frozen forest with its terrifying hiss of the polar currents pointed to tragedy. Even more so with a Jack Nicholson who already came with his defect since he capitalized "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
And although the couple formed by Jack and Wendy sounded like a Christmas story, the matter soon twists when the creative block of the husband and writer ends up transforming into a paranoia mix of malefic possession, telluric influences and extrasensory accesses to sinister planes where the setting plays perfectly to compose that claustrophobic and "labyrinthine" whole in which Kubrick enjoyed like a pig in a puddle.
I could not miss Stephen King in this of horrors because this novel was his third story. And although later we also find a lot of fantasy that points to other narrative vertices, this first period was all horrors that we all enjoyed with that insane taste for going on a walk towards madness and death to try to get out unscathed.
And yes, this movie also has its OST that seems to have come straight from hell. Listen, listen:
Nightmare on Elm Street
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:It seems incredible but the guy who assaulted the dreams of adolescents was the good lizard of V. Yes, yes, the curly blonde who passed information to the resistance ... The thing is that he must have gotten tired of being so good and with his role by Freddy Krueger surprised us all from a realm of terror that seemed novel and disconcerting. If you fell asleep you weren't safe and if you got up to the top of the centrepieces so as not to sleep, you ended up so hard that the best option seemed to finally give you up to Freddy's arms.
A difficult situation in which you never knew when a scene was real or a dream and, therefore, you never knew when Freddy could appear with his sinister inspiration like Pennywise, the clown who Stephen King he planned for It. The thing had its charm (or rather its scare) during the first two or three installments. Afterwards the matter became more difficult to digest and the truth is that I no longer even know how the thing ended in its sixth or seventh installment.
But without a doubt this film is the source from which many of the horror stories for young and less young people drink where precisely the notion of youth and vitality is confronted with the shadows of the most inopportune death and the dangers of unfathomable hells. from where little by little new monsters are arriving to the delight of fans of the genre. There must be a reason…
In this case I am not going to offer you the original soundtrack of the movie. I find it much funnier, to close this scary entry, a song by Def Con Dos about Freddy Krueger ...
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