A good friend of the Scariest Things, Co-Organizer of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and the Portland Horror Film Festival, Gwen Callahan gives us her Top 25 Horror films with some Asian Horror flair!
As co-Director of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival and co-founder of Portland Horror Film Festival, I watch A LOT of horror films! My background is in art and literature, but I have loved cinema since I fell asleep to Close Encounters of the Third Kind at the drive-in as a small child. As half the team behind Sigh Co. Graphics and Arkham Bazaar, I make a lot of things and have great respect for the craft of filmmaking.
#1 Favorite Movie of ALL TIME!: Alien (1979)
Movie #2: The Thing (1982)
Movie #3: The Haunting (1963)
Movie #4: Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Movie #5: The Amityville Horror (1979)
Movie #6: Audition (1999)
Movie #7: Ichi The Killer (2001)
Movie #8: Suicide Club (2001)
Movie #9: Event Horizon (1997)
Movie #10: The Wicker Man (1973)
Movie #11: The Beyond (1981)
Movie #12: Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Movie #13: Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Movie #14: Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Movie #15: The Shining (1980)
Movie #16: Hellraiser (1987)
Movie #17: Salem’s Lot (1979)
Movie #18: Let the Right One In (2008)
Movie #19: The Exorcist (1973)
Movie #20: Raw (2016)
Movie #21: Pandora’s Box (1929)
Movie #22: Battle Royale (2000)
Movie #23: Re-Animator (1985)
Movie #24: Poltergeist (1982)
Movie #25: Green Room (2015)