Coupla things—

"Birthday Party: The Movie"

I know I have a particularly rigid and orthodox definition of Horror (i.e. does it have a "monster" or some other supernatural element? Could it never actually take place in the real world?), but I think even most critics would question 'Silence of the Lambs' as a Horror film. If it is, then the series 'Criminal…

Amen Dutch, and Zombie's backstory is just so much connect the dots serial killer profiling culled from every episode of 'Most Evil' ("there exists a scale…"). The point is that Michael is off the scale, uncompromising evil beyond normal measure or comprehension. Besides which, in Zombie's hands the story is wall to…

'Cat's Eye' was an anthology of three Stephen Kind stories. I don't remember one of them, but there's the troll one (a kind of 'Trilogy of Terror' homage, maybe) and the one where James Woods plays a guy involved in a very elaborate form of aversion therapy to quit smoking.

Donald Sutherland: Mmmmmm, gawky.

~From the Desk of David Cronenberg~

I will see the the sequel to 'Descent', if only for more screen time of Juno (who is just lucious), but if ever a movie ended right it was the British cut. There's no way a sequel makes sense—not with the same characters, not the way they seem to have done it. It could be good, but I'm not holding my breath.

"he is doomed to fail but tries anyway on principle"

It's not what it is so much as how it's done. And that creepy knocking game is so simple but so effective.

"elephants can be scary just by themselves"

'Night of the Scarecrow'—is that the one that was a TV movie (one of the few examples including 'Trilogy of Terror' and certain episodes of 'The X-Files' to make the case that network TV could do Horror well)?

Karp and Tristiac—that is assuming, of course, that the monsters actually did show up (Or, along those lines, that Sarah even made it out of the hospital).

Ever seen 'When the Wind Blows'?—it's a British cartoon movie from tyhe mid to late 80's about this old couple who endure a nuclear attack and keep comparing it (unfavorably, tragically) to their reminiscences of World War II and the Battle of Britain.

'Blair Witch' was so ground breaking that it pisses people off that it was also so obvious and easy to do. Take natural fears most people have some visceral experience with (fear of the dark, of being lost, of being alone, of being surrounded by wild nature in the dark, lost and alone) and give it a folkloric…

'The Sixth Sense' is a Horror movie in the same sense that 'Let the Right One In' is—which is to say they each conform to enough Horror movie conventions to fit the definition, even if they ultimately wander pretty far from them.

Yes—the humonculi in 'The Gate' are easily the best post 'Gremlins' little beasties in terms of concept and execution, BUT better than 'Poltergeist'? I don't think so—'Poltergeist' is pretty much perfect. But 'The Gate' is a pretty good "gateway" as it were to Horror for younger people—it's never too graphic or…

'Silence of the Lambs' was a great movie, but I just heard again on the radio how it;s "the only Horror movie ever to win the Best Picture Oscar", which would be true if it were, in fact, a Horror movie, but it's not. It's a police procedural Thriller.

C'mon—the only scary thing in 'Don't Look Now' is Donald Sutherland's pasty naked body in the longest, most unecessary and least erotic sex scene ever filmed. Seriously, it's the opposite of porn. I imagine the ending would be a shock too, if you didn't already know about it ahead of time. I unfortunately did, and…

Miller—I can't get your links to work, but I'm guessing that the second one is to 'It's Alive' which really is a great classic Horror film with some of the most effective marketing the genre has ever seen. 'Gothic'—if it's the Gabriel Byrne movie, takes its cover image from Henry Fuseli (I normally would remove the…