5 horror films to look out for, even if you are afraid of your own shadow

horror films - a genre specific. Enjoy the fear and terror can not all. However, there are pictures that are relevant for the cinema is so high that each for familiarization with them would have to pass a session tickling nerves.

Nosferatu. A Symphony of horror

• Director: Friedrich Murnau.
• Germany, 1922.
• Duration: 94 min.
• IMDb: 8,0.

The first film adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" today will cause the audience faces except that condescending smile. The film is completely safe for the most timid audience. Too comical and naive contemporaries seem horror scenes of silent films.

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At the time the picture Murnau was truly revolutionary: the use of gothic scenery and outdoor scenery was innovative in cinema early XX century.

Grim image of the silent monster with a bare skull and long claws became a cult. Many of the ideas about the nature of human blood fans (eg, fear of light), they have been used in later films about vampires.

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Psycho

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
• United States, 1960.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

According to many film critics, "Psycho" - the best film of Hitchcock and the greatest masterpiece of world cinema. Shooting in the first person, impeccable staging scenes of murder, suspense pervades the whole picture - the effect presence here reaches such a force that the viewer literally feel the blows of a knife mad maniac.

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The strength of the painting American director is not in creating a violent and frightening scenes. Hitchcock is one of the first used in the movie Freudian ideas about the psychological structure of the personality. At present the murderers of three layers of an apparent contradiction: "superego", "It" and "Ego".

Hitchcock plays the role of a doctor, diagnosing and explaining the reasons for maniacal evil. After he became the subject of psychoanalytic beat in almost every other movie, but not everyone is able to do it so subtly and metaphorically as a grand maestro of horror films.

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Rosemary's Baby

• Director: Roman Polanski.
• United States, 1968.
• Duration: 136 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

The film is almost no special effects, it is completely devoid frankly frightening scenes. The young family moved into a new apartment in New York, met with the neighbors and leads a normal life.

Fear the main character, as well as the fear of the audience, is born in a vacuum. He comes from a misunderstanding of whether to be afraid or not. Are all these lovely housewife - priverzhenka satanic cult, waiting for the baby of Rosemary-devil, or all this paranoia heroine?

Why do you need to watch

Polanski first used as powerful psychological technique ambiguity events. Before the final credits the viewer can not be sure of the truth of what is happening. This state of uncertainty is fraught with far more fear than candid image of evil incarnate.

If you want to know what is called psychological horror, the "Rosemary's Baby" explain it better than any other movie.

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Exorcist

• Director: William Friedkin.
• USA, 1973.
• Duration: 122 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

A child scissors deprives itself of innocence and lavished obscene curses, 360-degree rotating head, flying bed - only a small part of what you will remember "The Exorcist."

A twenty-minute exorcism at the end of shows with meticulous naturalism, that for a moment forget about the artistry of the picture. Girls dancing around osatanevshih disgusting and terrible.

Why do you need to watch

"The Exorcist" marked the beginning of a huge number of films on the theme of exorcism. And no wonder: at the time the picture has received wide recognition among a mass audience, as well as numerous awards, including the "Oscar".

The phenomenon of exorcism in itself testifies to the helplessness of science and man unconsciously wants to live in the world, lined with physics and chemistry - there should be room for anything else. Devil is irrational, inexplicable phenomenon, to which science there is nothing left but to resign.

The film Friedkin science slowly and reluctantly signed the instrument of surrender, recognizing that people never fully be able to subjugate the world.

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Radiance

• Director: Stanley Kubrick.
• US, UK, 1980.
• Duration: 144 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,4.

A sinister grin on Jack Nicholson's face, piercing ax the door to his victim, will remain forever in the memory of those who saw it. Peerless actor's game and an abundance of really creepy horror scenes make the film Kubrick's not a sight for the faint of heart. On a visual level, "The Shining" is probably the most horrible horror film from the list.

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To become one of the classic works, not enough to be scary horror film. It should be to a certain extent intellectual. Kubrick carries art experiment in which it is found out that the cause of the madness of the hero of the film is the lack of self-satisfaction Torrance.

Man strives for harmony, even fictional. Hero Nicholson, an alcoholic and a loser in life, being in a secluded place, creates his own fantasy world without social pressure. Hotel "Overlook" with its unreal inhabitants is a stronghold harmony and tranquility. For permanent residence there Torrens prevents a wife and a child, the best way to get rid of that is the ax.

Social issues, the deep metaphor for each frame, and the abundance of various artistic techniques made the creation of Kubrick's one of the best in the history of cinema.

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