Ten movies that left bite marks.

What are your top ten favorite movies?

A Nightmare on Elm Street

I was so young the first time I watched this movie – Freddy crept into my nightmares too.

The Craft

This movie found its way into my veins, I wanted to crawl inside it – to live in that place made of darkness and magic, despite the mundane beige backdrop of suburbia.

Stephen King’s It

I’m not talking about the recent one – the old mini-series. Tim Curry’s Pennywise still peers out at me from every dark sewer with that terrible, sharp toothed grin.

Let the Right One In (2008)

Bleak and beautiful. I was transfixed by how disarming the monster was, innocence laced with a hunger for blood.

Labyrinth

This movie felt like a fairytale interwoven with a nightmare.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

The fear in this film felt real and raw. The bleak, black and white zombies and the sly political subtext made this a masterpiece.

It Follows

The air of this movie is unsettling, it gets under your skin like a burrowing insect and festers there.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Creepy and charming. I always long to watch this movie just before Halloween, cuddled under a blanket with lots of sweets.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

There’s something superbly disquieting about this film – the menacing flickering of the carnival lights and the mysterious Mr. Dark are truly haunting. Even now.

Coraline

This has the feel of a children’s movie – and it is – but the darkness of this film, the way it creeps in slowly, is perfect and terrible. The other world is alluring but a lie.