Classy horror

[hagios]

Your lists of great atmospheric, gothic, horror films such as Hammers' Draculas or Night of Dark Shadows, The Wolfman, etc.

[Moe Szyslak]

Just skimmed through my collection and determined the classiest horror film to be Rosemary's Baby.

[bigshot]

By far, the most sophisticated horror movie ever is Jack Clayton's "The Innocents" available in a region free version in Germany. It operates on two totally different levels at the same time. "The Haunting" and "The Uninvited" are good too, but not in the US on bluray.

Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, Dracula (particularly the Spanish language version).

[SilentDawn]

Originally Posted by bigshot

By far, the most sophisticated horror movie ever is Jack Clayton's "The Innocents" available in a region free version in Germany. It operates on two totally different levels at the same time. "The Haunting" and "The Uninvited" are good too, but not in the US on bluray.

Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, Dracula (particularly the Spanish language version).

+1 on The Haunting, absolutely terrifying!!

[Member-167298]

Originally Posted by bigshot

Dracula (particularly the Spanish language version).

I honestly think the Spanish version of Dracula is better than the US version! I still need to watch it on Blu Ray.

[lilboyblu]

Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Even with the contrast differences between DVD & Blu-ray versions, I personally still find the Blu-ray beautiful to look at.

[blufellas]

Rosemary's Baby
Repulsion

[Kriztoffer Swank]

Rosemary's Baby
The Legend of Hell House (not on BD but was streaming on Netflix in HD)
Magic
Bava's gothic horror flicks

[octagon]

Rosemary's Baby and The Innocents are locks.

And while it's not gothic the original Halloween is one of the creepiest and most atmospheric horror films out there. The slow burn buildup during the afternoon is just about perfect.

Stir of Echoes is a sort of under-the-radar personal favorite too. It's very much in that classic 'things that go bump in the night' mold and very well done. I can certainly understand why it got overshadowed by The Sixth Sense but it's kind of a shame.

The orginal Diabolique is pretty creepy too. While more suspense/thriller than outright horror the last half hour is every bit as chilling and atmospheric as any haunted house classic.

[mikesncc1701]

Eyes Without A Face. Artistic horror film with a great atmosphere and some pretty disturbing content.

[kemcha]

Couple classics that have yet to be released: The Evil (1978) and Prince of Darkness (1987).

[Kaiju]

Evil Dead 2 is pretty classy... Oh, and Demons.

...Aaaaaand as for real classy horror, you should check out Rosemary's Baby, Suspiria, and The Shining.

[deepbreathsanddeath]

Originally Posted by TheMan

Evil Dead 2 is pretty classy... Oh, and Demons.

...Aaaaaand as for real classy horror, you should check out Rosemary's Baby, Suspiria, and The Shining.

I think you're thinking classic, which evil dead II and Demons both are where as the OP wanted classy. You nailed it on the head with the last 3 though :P

[Emilio_B]

Interview with the Vampire, Psycho, and Bram Stoker's Dracula are probably the "classiest" BD's I have in my horror collection.

[RiFiFi1955]

Originally Posted by mikesncc1701

eyes without a face. Artistic horror film with a great atmosphere and some pretty disturbing content.

+1

I will add The Spiral Staircase

[Mr. Thomsen]

I much prefer the gothic "horror all'italiana" to the Hammers, though my favorite gothics are probably the Corman Poe adaptations for nostalgic reasons (I grew up watching them on German television).

But I am not sure about the question, because I don't understand whether you just want our lists of good gothic horror or whether it must be available on BD. If the latter, there's unfortunately a LOT of great movies not released. And many of them probably never will be available on Blu (seeing how little especially the euro-gothics sold on DVD).

Anyone interested in Italian gothic horror should by the way get Stefano Piselli's book 'Horror all'Italiana 1957-1979' published by Bizarre Sinema! in Italy. It's perhaps the best book on the subject outside Tim Lucas' monumental Mario Bava book, and all the text is in three languages (Italian, French, and English).

[drmb1990]

The Others, Suspiria, Let Me In/Let The Right One In, The Grey, Psycho... to name a few that I think belong on the list.

[Race Bannon]

The Black Cat (1934), which was the first team-up of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. Also one of the first movies to have a pretty-much continuous musical score.

Karloff is an Alistor Crowley type, Lugois is a scientist who has cracked, the house is creepy modern deco place in Hungary that used to be a WWI prison. And the organ music that Karloff sits down and plays is a very familiar horror movie sound.

You can see/hear him playing the organ music at 3:52 of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmO5N...utu.be&t=3m52s

[yhzmr]

The original The Omen (1976). Goth horror classic. Anything with Gregory Peck will add a touch of class to the proceedings.

[MovieManiac82]

Halloween
Deep Red
The Changeling