The Beckoning Fair One
This is the most famous tale written by the late Oliver Onions, and widely considered one of the classic English language ghost stories. Turns out there’s a definite reason THE BECKONING FAIR ONE is so well regarded:
Fine Writing, Poor Packaging: The Novels of Ken Greenhall
Of the many authors to emerge from the horror boom of the 1970s, the late Ken Greenhall remains one of the most unfairly neglected–and also one of the most mysterious
WIND CHILL
A solid exercise in minimalism with fine location work, some decent scares, and extremely good performances by its lead actors
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A G-rated horror movie? Yes, there is indeed such a thing, and it can actually work, as this 1963 classic from the late Robert Wise proves
MOONLIGHT BOY
Poetic, bizarre and altogether impressive nineties-era horror from Taiwan that can be viewed as Asia’s answer to THE SIXTH SENSE
EYES OF FIRE
This Missouri lensed no-budgeter from the eighties is real oddity: a hallucinatory horror movie set in Colonial America
EXPULSION OF THE DEVIL
Quite a few haunted house clichés are utilized in this slow moving French-made effort by Juan Luis Bunuel. A seeming inspiration on POLTERGEIST, the film has a few good things, but not enough to make for a worthwhile product.
EL AMOR BRUJO
Flamenco dancing takes center stage in this musical extravaganza from Spain’s Carlos Saura. All told it’s an impressively stylized work that interweaves authentic Gypsy folklore with song, dance and a fairly potent ghost story
THE STONE TAPE
A signature work from the British writer Nigel Kneale, one of the genre’s true masters. Rigorously constructed, thought provoking and deeply disturbing, this was made for the BBC in 1972, and may just be the finest TV horror movie ever made
THE SIXTH SENSE
Arguably the key horror movie of the nineties, and the film most responsible for lifting the genre out of the doldrums in which it languished for most of that decade