Well Made, Intelligent, and Posh Horror Films

The Innocents with Deborah Kerr and Michael Redgrave

2001's The Others, starring DL punching bag, Nicole Kidman.

The fall of the house of Usher-1960. Vincent Price-blond. IT WAS HORRIBLE-JUST HORRIBLE!

Louis Jourdan elevates Dracula wonderfully but the rest of the movie is stuck firmly in the psychedelic 60s.

Don't Look Now.

I liked Frank Langella's Dracula (1978). He was prime beef at the time.

Black Christmas, apparently.

Does Silence of the Lambs count as horrior? A classic, whatever it is.

The Changeling (1980, George C. Scott)

Ghost Story (1981, Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman).

Langella had big hair. Drac didn’t have big hair.

Yes-Black Christmas! Get it-it was fun-scary and the house was great-Andrea Martin was there!

Rosemary's Baby.

Classics, "Let's Scare Jessica To Death" and "Audry Rose". So engrossing, you'll forget that you already ate your Snickers bar.

Murder, She Wrote

Crimson Peak, maybe? Sleepy Hollow?

The Woman in Black 2012

Suspiria 2018

Midsommar 2019

The Devil's Backbone 2001

The Omen with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick

R13 - I have to admit to loving the Suspiria remake, and think it’s so much better than the original.

PBS Great Performance series: Louis Jourdan in Count Dracula. "Posh horror film" describes it perfectly. Louis was beautiful and sexy.

The Substance. Hereditary. The Hunger. The Passion of Joan of Arc. Jeanne Diehlman. Host.

The Haunting

The Others.

night Watch

Haunted - late 90s movie with Aidan Quin and Kate Beckinsale.

Incestuous teens torture poor Aidan.

So posh, so intelligent, and so well made…..

Ingmar Bergman's The Hour of The Wolf (1968)

Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman, Erland Josephson, and Ingrid Thulin

R5- The bitch beat me- but has great taste

Don't Look Now !!

and the very much forgotten The Haunting of Julia starring Rosemary Woodhouse

The Ruins.

R24- That one was okay- I recently learned that it was based on a novel of the same name!

Dressed to Kill

Definitely agree with The Innocents (1961), The Haunting (1963) and The Changeling (1980) the best and most elegant, haunted house movies.

The Uninvited 1944

The Shining

Society...a young Billy Warlock...very disturbing. The Others.

R28 with Sir Donald Crisp?

Rosemary’s Baby

Repulsion

Kwaidan

Peeping Tom

The Tenant

Slumber Party Massacre II

Oddity

The Substance

The Ritual

Eli

The Fan (1981)

It had FLAVAH!

Only Lovers Left Alive. Although I don't know if it's a horror movie. It's about vampires, though. I love the story and the acting in this.

It Follows. It's a creepy littler fever dream. I'm also going to mention another Maika Monroe movie called The Watcher, it has a Hitchcockian feel and the ending was a sucker punch. Agree with Oddity, it felt like a bespoke horror film with all the intersting props, they were their own characters and also the same filmmaker's Caveat was quite suspenseful. Possum is more disturbing but that puppet is pure nightmare fuel.

The Haunting of Julia

Let the Right One In 2008

Two by Park Chan- Wook:

Thirst 2009

Old Boy 2003

The Exorcist. I thought horror films were pretty cheesy and usually avoided them. I thought this one was very well done.

R31 yes, that's it

In my opinion the classiest are: The Queen of Spades

Eyes Without a Face

Rosemary’s Baby

The Hunger

Don’t Look Now

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Repulsion

Les Diaboliques

Hangover Square

The Innocents

Not posh, but The Howling was supposed to be a respectable horror movie. If I am remembering correctly, the werewolf Eddie’s transformation was considered pretty impressive for the time. It looks so cheesy now, but I still think it’s a pretty good movie.

Nothing can hold a candle to the transformation in American Werewolf in London.

R24, the book is SO much better. It really creeped me out. The movie was just kind of meh.

R24 R25 The novel was better than the film, at least on first viewing. I read it when I asked a librarian for a good scary book and wasn't disappointed. I'll watch again...

The Thing (1981)

The Orphanage

Hereditary

The Witch

Fantasy/Horror film

LEGEND (1985)

The first film that came to mind was The Hunger starting Catherine Denueve, David Bowie, and Susan Something 😉 . Halloween is over in 2 hours! Go!!

[quote]The Orphanage

The ending made me cry.

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 2016

The Unknown 1927

Not posh, but intelligent and well made - Cube [1997]

[quote] The Hunger

I remember loving this movie’s soundtrack and the ending being so haunting.

The PIANO TRIO NO. 2, IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 100 by Franz Schubert

I could suggest quite a few but my assistant has COVID and I'm getting tired.