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Oct 16, 2020 · From iconic horror films to hidden gems, our comprehensive guide to women-centric horror is a celebration of socially conscious horror movies.
- jjoho@mashable.com
- Jess Joho
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- The Innocents (1961) Crafting the perfect haunted house is a magic trick. For The Innocents, most of what you see of Bly Manor exists on the sound stages within Shepperton Studios, while a facade was constructed on the lot.
- The Others (2001) You don’t need direct sunlight to be able to see that the old manor in The Others is one of horror’s best decrepit houses. It’s got all the hallmarks of a spooky English estate: rolling fog, stuffy furniture, and vast, unexplored corridors.
- House (1985) House is a haunted mansion flick with more on its mind than creaky floorboards and things that go bump in the night. The supernatural elements serve as a metaphor for PTSD, though the film is packed with too much humor to work as a truly effective examination of the condition.
- The Old Dark House (1932) When trapped in a thunderstorm, any potential shelter should come with relief. Of course, not if that shelter is the Femm estate with its Boris Karloff butler and family of mysterious psychotics huddled within.
The Old Dark House is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale. Based on the 1927 novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey and Eva Moore.
In 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) This Cary Grant-starring farce is so funny that you forget his character's dear, sweet aunts are basically Ted Bundy. Adding Peter Lorre into the mix for horror bona fides, the movie plays with our biases about who gets to be a fearsome serial killer—the wide-eyed maniac or the darling old lady with poison in her elderberry wine.
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) The legendary comedy duo play baggage clerks who make a delivery to McDougal's House of Horrors, running into Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and the Wolf Man (played respectively by Glenn Strange, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney, Jr.
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) Vincent Price delivers a magnificent, absurd performance as a doctor who's rebuilt his own mangled face and is seeking revenge on the incompetent team of doctors who killed his wife using the Biblical Plagues of Egypt as inspiration.
- Young Frankenstein (1974) Mel Brooks's riff on the classic tale of playing God with lightning and old body parts was an early example of parodying beloved horror tales wholesale and is now in the Hall of Fame for its hilarious quotability (Blücher!).
Just when we think the film can’t get any stranger, we meet the hairy but very effeminate bed-ridden patriarch, Sir Roderick Femm, who is confined to his bed upstairs. He is actually played...
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The Old Dark House: Directed by James Whale. With Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond. Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
