Cult Labs' Favourite Horror Film

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Can't even recall who the other was.

Was it Ben Kingsley?

James Marsden.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I just looked at the Wikipedia page for The Box and the was adapted from Richard Matheson's short story for an episode of the 1980s The Twilight Zone series. This is what it says about the adaptations – SPOILER ALERT!

Short story
"Button, Button" was first published in Playboy, June 1970, a short story written by Richard Matheson. The story was republished as part of a collection of Matheson's short stories.

In the original short story, the plot is resolved differently. Norma presses the button, and receives the money—after her husband dies in a train incident where Arthur is pushed onto the tracks (the money was the no-fault insurance settlement, which is $50,000 instead of the $200,000 in the Twilight Zone episode). A despondent Norma asks the stranger why her husband was the one who was killed. The stranger replies, "Did you really think you knew your husband?"

Matheson strongly disapproved of the Twilight Zone version, especially the new ending, and used his pseudonym Logan Swanson for the teleplay.

Film
The Box, a feature film based on this story, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden, was released in 2009. The Twilight Zone episode is played out within the first hour, followed by further events within the context of the film's additional plot. Basil Hoffman, the actor who plays Steward in the Twilight Zone episode, also appears in the film, but as character Don Poates

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

This is the CBS radio play, which I am going to listen to when I have a spare 45 minutes.

[stephen42]

Wow this is a pretty impressive list.....but here`s mine

1.Suspiria
2.The Grudge(remake)
3.Carrie(the original....not the pointless beyond belief remake)
4.Tenebrae
5.The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
6.Halloween
7.Night of the Living Dead
8.The Fog
9.Dawn of the Dead
10.Bay of Blood

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Nice. I love these list-things - I'm a list-a-holic! Plus, I did this not long ago over at Bloody Disgusting (but with the top 25) so I'm gonna borrow my list from there...

1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2. Alien (1979)
3. The Shining (1980)
4. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
5. The Wicker Man (1973)
6. Frightmare (1974)
7. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
8. The Evil Dead (1982)
9. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

8 years later how much has changed, B_E?

[mr 420]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

8 years later how much has changed, B_E?

A bit less hair and a few inches on the waist?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by stephen42

2.The Grudge(remake)

Excellent list, Stephen. What do you prefer about the remake of The Grudge? I thought it was alright, but not as atmospheric or downright creepy as the original.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

8 years later how much has changed, B_E?

I've posted a couple of lists here since that one!

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

For me (at the moment) it would be:

1. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)
2. Videodrome (1983)
3. The Wicker Man (1973)
4. Santa Sangre (1989)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Peeping Tom (1960)
7. Spoorloos (The Vanishing) (1988)
8. Onibaba (1964)
9. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
10. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Even though I've posted a link to my Top 666, I'll post my Top 100 here for the sake of comparison.

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
2. Videodrome (1983)
3. The Wicker Man (1973)
4. Santa Sangre (1989)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Peeping Tom (1960)
7. Onibaba (1964)
8. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
9. The Vanishing (1988)
10. Les diaboliques (1955)
11. Vampyr (1932)
12. The Innocents (1961)
13. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
14. Haxan (1922)
15. Nosferatu (1922)
16. Alien (1979)
17. Eraserhead (1977)
18. Threads (1984)
19. Lost Highway (1997)
20. The Invisible Man (1933)
21. King Kong (1933)
22. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
23. Dead of Night (1945)
24. The Haunting (1963)
25. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
26. Repulsion (1965)
27. Jigoku (1960)
28. Possession (1981)
29. Faust (1926)
30. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
31. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
32. Don't Look Now (1973)
33. The Devils (1971)
34. Blue Velvet (1986)
35. Dead Ringers (1988)
36. Black Christmas (1974)
37. The Evil Dead (1981)
38. Hausu (1977)
39. Martin (1976)
40. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
41. Tenebrae (1982)
42. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
43. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
44. Jaws (1975)
45. Frankenstein (1931)
46. Carnival of Souls (1962)
47. The Tenant (1976)
48. Kwaidan (1964)
49. Man Bites Dog (1992)
50. L'Inferno (1911)
51. The Cremator (1969)
52. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
53. The Beyond (1981)
54. Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
55. Suspiria (1977)
56. Hellraiser (1987)
57. The Fog (1980)
58. The Company of Wolves (1984)
59. Stagefright (1987)
60. Kuroneko (1968)
61. Hardware (1990)
62. Gozu (2003)
63. Evil Dead Trap (1988)
64. Dementia (1955)
65. The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
66. Clean, Shaven (1993)
67. Deep Red (1975)
68. Halloween (1978)
69. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
70. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
71. The Fly (1986)
72. Shivers (1975)
73. Horror Express (1972)
74. Freaks (1932)
75. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
76. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
77. The Legend of Hell House (1973)
78. The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971)
79. City of the Living Dead (1980)
80. Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
81. The Thing (1982)
82. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
83. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
84. The Shining (1980)
85. Ganja & Hess (1973)
86. Ravenous (1999)
87. Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
88. Paranoiac (1963)
89. Let the Right One In (2008)
90. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
91. Frightmare (1974)
92. I Saw the Devil (2010)
93. The Iron Rose (1973)
94. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
95. Twisted Nerve (1968)
96. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
97. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
98. Dracula (1958)
99. Maniac (1980)
100. At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

That's quite a drop for Night of the Living Dead.

#1 in 2009 and #52 eight years on.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

That's quite a drop for Night of the Living Dead.

#1 in 2009 and #52 eight years on.

Not as much as The Invasion of the Body Snatchers - from 10th to 97th!