Horror, my beloved.

[rogueslayer452]

Day 10: Favorite horror movie

Now, this is incredibly difficult to answer because horror is one of my favorite genres, so asking me my favorite is near impossible because there's literally so many that I can think of. Also, it's quite vague too, because which subcategory are we talking here? Classic horror? Psychological thrillers? Gothic horror? Slashers and splatters? Foreign horror? Horror comedies? B-horrors? Horror franchises? You see the dilemma here, because I have favorites in basically all of these subcategories within the genre.

With that being said, I'm going to say The Cell (2000) dir. Tarsem Singh. Most will know the director from his other works, most notably the absolutely gorgeous film The Fall, but The Cell is mainly what I know his work for which is just as gorgeous in a grotesque way, similarly to that of Hannibal, especially stylistically and visually with the cinematography. I was obsessed with this movie when it came out, I saw it multiple times in the theaters, and while it probably wasn't a film I should have been watching at the age I was at the time, it really was quite formative for me and was also sort of an example of my increased interest with the twisted and macabre.

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[rogueslayer452]

Ah yes, The Descent is a good one. I liked that, on top of it being quite suspenseful and creepy, there was a lot of character tension as well. The ending was incredibly well done (with the original ending, not the edited version).