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7. The Omen
A series of
gruesome
murders leads
Gregory Peck's
Ambassador
Robert Thorn
to come to
the unfortunate revelation that his
son is actually the antichrist. Uh oh!
Brilliant score by composer Jerry
Goldsmith ups the creep factor to 11.

6. Alien
Ridley Scott
gussied up a
1950s space
monster
plot with
nightmarish
H.R. Giger
production design (including a
sickeningly misshapen creature) and
one of science fiction's great heroines
in Sigourney Weaver's tough-talking
Warrant Officer Ripley.

5. The
Shining
Author
Stephen King
hated it, but
horror fans
still swear
by Stanley Kubrick's haunted hotel
epic about a writer (an iconic Jack
Nicholson) slowly going mad while
tending to a grand ski resort isolated
in the mountains.

4.
Halloween
The film that
changed
horror, John
Carpenter's
1978 classic of
the season has an escaped mental
patient, Michael Myers (a.k.a.
The Shape), stalking the women
of Haddonfield while pursued by
the relentless Dr. Loomis (Donald
Pleasence).

3. Rosemary's
Baby
Horror has often
been a genre
relegated to low
budget hacks
and novice directors, but 1968's
Rosemary's Baby is A-list all the way.
The Ira Levin novel was a massive
bestseller and Paramount hired
Roman Polanski to direct, resulting
in one of the most stylish and spooky
thrillers of all time. Mia Farrow's
Rosemary Woodhouse learns she
has been impregnated by the Devil,
and the real terror lies in discovering
which of her friends and neighbors
was in on it.

2. Jaws
Steven
Spielberg's first
blockbuster was
a nightmare
to make, with
a mechanical shark so unreliable
that Spielberg spent months
working out ways to shoot around
it. But with John Williams' brilliant
score constantly suggesting the
presence of the predator, Spielberg's
now-you-see-it-now-you-don't
approach turned what might
have been a cheesy disaster
movie into a Hitchcock-like
suspense masterpiece, with
an unforgettable trio of lead
characters played by Roy
Scheider, Robert Shaw and
Richard Dreyfuss.

1. The
Exorcist
Director
William
Friedkin
changed the
landscape
for modern
horror with his
stark, chillingly realistic adaptation
of William Peter Blatty's best-selling
novel about a young girl (Linda Blair)
seemingly possessed by the devil.

By Edward Gross

CULT OF
CHUCKY
IN THE FILM CULT OF CHUCKY (7th in the series that
began with 1988's Child's Play), Chucky the Good Guy Doll
is back and has returned to his homicidal ways. Or has he?
Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) has been in a mental
institution for the past four years after being falsely
accused of murdering her family. After her psychiatrist
gives her a therapeutic Good Guy doll, murders start
taking place in the asylum, which she blames on a
resurrected Chucky.
Writer-director Don Mancini, who created Chucky,
explains, "From a creative level, one of the things that's
been important to me and [producer] David Kirschner
from the beginning is that we always wanted to somehow
switch things up. We just don't want to make the same
movie twice. What we found is that Chucky
is an extremely versatile character. You can
plug him into different genres, different
subgenres, different tones. We've gone from
straightforward slasher movie to comedy
to really crazy meta comedy to an Agatha
Christie mystery.
"With this new one, Cult of Chucky, we're
doing the mental asylum movie, which
we'd never done before," he continues. "A
movie where you're constantly wondering if what you're
seeing is real or not, because the perceptions of reality
of the characters in the mental institution are all filtered
through their own madness, through the drugs that
they're on, through the hypnosis that they're undergoing
and the nightmares that they're having. That was just a
fun, new, generic prism to view the character."
The new film has a number of influences, among them
Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and Christopher Nolan's
Inception. Notes Mancini, "The opportunity to depict
dreams and different levels of reality was just something
I thought would be fun to explore and, again, plugging
Chucky into that realm was just a way of reinventing it."
Cult of Chucky is available now.

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