What to watch this Halloween – according to Bong Joon-ho, Jordan Peele, and more

 

<b> Halloween 2020 watchlist – curated by Bong Joon-ho, Jordan Peele, and more faves </b>

Spooky time

With practically everyone staying indoors this Halloween, it’s gonna be a tough choice between binging on Netflix horrors or scaring yourself with the news.

Instead of those two superb choices though, old and new cinephiles could also take a reco or two of the world’s best horror movies, at least according to the industry bests.

Lo and behold, your Halloween 2020 watchlist – as curated by the world’s best directors themselves.

Midsommar (2019) – Bong Joon-ho

Synopsis: A woman travels with her boyfriend and his friends to a pagan Sweden village famous for its midsummer festival, but what begins as a retreat devolves into a weird and violent encounter with a cult.

Bong on director Ari Aster: ‘[He] goes beyond the trappings of genre and delivers true, profound horror. A horror that is primal and inescapable. In order to survive this overwhelming horror, we cast a spell on ourselves.

Misery (1990) – Jordan Peele

Synopsis: After a car crash, a novelist is rescued and taken into a solitary cabin by his biggest fan, who may or may not be completely obsessed with the wordsmith.

Peele on the film: ‘It’s also a movie where the acting and the performance and the script and the dialogue is where the fear in the movie lies –  I love that kind of technique.’

Audition (1999) – Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: The Japanese thriller follows a widower named Aoyama who meets the mysterious and young Asami through a dating site. As they start to form a relationship, Aoyama finds out that Asami could be hiding a lot more than what meets the eye.

Tarantino on the film: The ‘Kill Bill‘ director placed this 1990 psychological thriller in his Top 20 films of all time, citing it as a ‘true masterpiece.’

Eyes Without a Face (1960) – Guillermo Del Toro

Synopsis: After an accident causing the wreck of his daughter Christiane’s face, Dr. Génessier is dedicated to kidnapping young women and slicing off their faces for his only daughter.

Del Toro on the film:  ‘It influenced me a lot with the contrast between beauty and brutality. The clash of haunting and enchanting imagery has seldom been more powerful.’

The Innocents (1961) – Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Often hailed as one of the scariest movies of all time, ‘The Innocents‘ is adapted from the 1898 novella ‘The Turn of the Screw,‘ which has since been recently adapted by Netflix’s ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor‘.

Scorsese on the film: ‘This Jack Clayton adaptation of ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is one of the rare pictures that does justice to Henry James. It’s beautifully crafted and acted, immaculately shot, and very scary.‘

Alien (1986) – Christopher Nolan

Synopsis: In deep space, the crew of starship Nostromo is halfway through their journey home when they receive a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when an alien organism attaches itself to one of the crewmates.

Nolan on the film: ‘The director I have always been a huge fan of: Ridley Scott certainly when I was a kid. ‘Alien,’ ‘Blade Runner’ just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive.’ 

The Wicker Man (1973) – Tim Burton

Synopsis: Sergeant Howie is tasked to find a missing child on the outskirts of a small conservative Scottish village. Though innocent-looking at first, the village reveals itself to be more sexually-fueled and cult-like the more Howie investigates.

Burton on the film: ‘It’s like a weird musical. It was not a very successful movie when it came out but it’s really quite a hypnotic and amazing film I think. It’s like a weird dream. Some of these films I can’t kind of watch over [again], because they play in your mind like a dream.’

The Fly (1986) – Luca Guadagino

Synopsis: Aspiring (and bumbling) scientist Seth Brundle decides to test his teleportation device on himself. However, a housefly swoops in during the process, leading to the bizarre merging of man and insect – leading to his disintegration and fight to remain human.

Guadagino on the film: ‘The horror of it for me is at the end when you realize that the [characters] desperately love each other, but they’re not going to be together. The ultimate horror of that movie was the impossibility of the love between the two of them.’

Happy watching

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