Horror Movie Tuesdays, Fall 2025

We adopt a strongly pluralist attitude toward what qualifies as horror.

bold = particularly exciting to me

Psychological horror
- Rosemary’s Baby
- Black Swan
- anything by David Lynch
- Killing of A Sacred Deer
Classic B-movie horror
- The Blob
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- They Live - this is more of an action movie
- Plan 9 From Outer Space - quite possibly the worst movie I’ve ever seen
- Phase IV
Body horror
- Possession
- anything by Cronenberg (e.g. Videodrome)
- The Substance
Monster
- Jaws
- It Follows
- Young Frankenstein
- Vampire
  - Nosferatu
  - Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  - Twilight (save it for Robby Patty series)
  - Interview with the Vampire
- Zombie movies
  - Night of the Living Dead
  - Dawn of the Dead
  - Shaun of the Dead
  - 28 Days Later (my favorite movie)
  - Train to Busan
  - World War Z
  - I Am Legend
  - Warm Bodies
  - Cargo
  - Poison
  - lots of TV shows in this category: The Walking Dead, The Last of Us
Slasher
- The Shining, for an elevated instance
- Halloween
- Scream
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Psycho
A24
- Hereditary
- Lamb
- The Witch
- Saint Maud
Sci-fi horror
- Alien
- Cube
- The Thing
- Annihilation
Cozy or funny horror
- Corpse Bride
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Halloweentown
- Beetlejuice
- House by Obayashi
- Big Bad Wolves
Contemporary
- Barbarian
- I Saw The TV Glow
- Weapons
- Us
Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
Pan’s Labyrinth
Cape Fear
Sijjin
Cuckoo
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Under the Shadow
The Night of the Hunter