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hello SGland!✨ 💛I hope you are all well, especially with the latest events. I love horror movies 👻🎬👽, and I made a list of recommendations to be seen, and to talk about them.

GHOST SHIP

to start a classic film In a romantic atmosphere of the 60s, a beautiful singer entertains a luxury ball, aboard a transatlantic. Almost everyone dances happily. Lonely, a little girl is bored. The old captain, noticing the girl's annoyance, invites her to dance. In the next instant, a perverse trap made with a steel cable cuts in half everyone on the deck. There is no time for even a word, a cry: everyone is dead. Everyone but the little girl.

A rescue team discovers a passenger ship lost since the 1960s, called Antonia Graza, floating uninhabited in a remote region of the Bering Sea. When trying to tow it, a series of bizarre events start to happen, and the crew discovers that the decaying vessel is not empty. On the contrary, it is the site of something far more deadly and terrible than anything they could have imagined!!

THE SHINING

Currently revered as one of Stanley Kubrick's most iconic - and interestingly popular - works, The Shining is a film to be seen not only, but also studied as a cinema master class. The way in which suspense is installed in a crescent is contagious, and the claustrophobia caused in an unusually large environment is both surprising and curious, having generated several imitators.

Despite what the common imagination may have created, the so-called “enlightened” person in the title is not the protagonist, but his son, little Danny (Danny Lloyd, only 6 years old, who never worked in cinema after this film).

The Illuminated is a film that defies the senses, that immerses us in a world from which we even have difficulty returning so much is the immersion that the tape provides. It is Kubrick showing absolute mastery over another film of its kind and about Cinema itself.

THE WITCH

The Witch is a horror film that is less concerned with scares than with the idea of exploring the darkness of the individuals who inhabit its world. During most of the projection, the “terror” that defines the genre arises not in the form of evil spirits, brain-eating zombies or even literal witches, but from within its characters, manifesting itself in the form of stupidity, superstitions and religious fundamentalism.

the soundtrack is built by Mark Korven, who uses dissonant vocals and sounds that, created essentially by string instruments, keep the viewer in a constant tension that suggests a threat whose nature we do not know, but which certainly seems to originate in the forest that it surrounds the characters and that, photographed by Jarin Blaschke as a gigantic and dark wall, creates a claustrophobic tone even when the scenes take place outside the cabin. In addition, the high contrast present in the night scenes, which envelops everyone in a seemingly impenetrable dark cloak, not only maintains the suffocating tone but subtly points to the existence of an invisible evil that can invade the environment at any time.

religious fundamentalism - is well marked, since female sexuality is always a point of contention in most organized religions, being seen as a source of "impurity", "temptation" and "sin". Thomasin's great crime was being a woman, which makes her the target of recrimination and attacks resulting from the inability of others to accept her femininity, and when we see her cornered and threatened in a corner of the room, we are witnessing the visual representation of centuries and centuries of oppression, aggression and sexism.

The Witch is a beautiful terror that understands that it does not take fantastic monsters to destroy its characters; all that is needed is a dangerous combination of belief, guilt aroused by religious dogmas and ignorance.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

The Silence of the Lambs that he could not be left out of the list of essential horror films.

Winner of the top five awards at the 1992 Oscar ceremony (film, director, script, actor and actress)

Here we have a very cool premise, which is to use one assassin to capture another and, in the middle of that, a web of confusion happens until an outcome is reached.adaptation of the intriguing novel by Thomas Harris, Directed by Jonathan Demme and with a script signed by Ted Tally, the narrative introduced us to the most seductive psychopath in the history of cinema: a mortal, dangerous man, able to “kill” someone with just his words syllables.

The characters that stand out the most in history, of course, are Hannibal and Clarice. Hannibal sometimes doesn’t even seem like a human being, he is so intelligent, so shrewd, with such sharp instincts, that it is a shame that he bears such great ruin and uses all his attributions for evil. And as much as he is a murderer, you can create a certain empathy, but only because he himself confuses our minds, for being so polite, full of charm and lip service. Clarice, for her part, is one of the smartest in her class at the FBI and is eager to snatch anything from Hannibal, proving to be as tough and smart as he is. And in fact, Clarice is not deluded into thinking that she is as smart as he is, so much so that the killer himself creates a certain feeling of empathy for her, to the point of actually considering helping the agent capture Buffalo Bill.

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a film that surrenders itself to excess in such a way that its supposedly scary and epic moments become funny or even absolutely hilarious. It is a film full of absurd choices, not only on the part of Coppola but also of its actors, and which illustrates how thin the line is between the emotional drama and the accidental comedy. The long and careful construction of a scene's atmosphere can be destroyed by the slightest of details.

the film draws attention: due to the fact that it is relatively recent and still capable of arousing horror with a character that has already been completely out of character in our social context. There is nothing to soften Dracula in this film, nothing to make him less monstrous or seductive.

INSIDIOUS

I love all the films in this saga, insidious is undoubtedly one of the greatest feats in terror. It is interesting to note that Supernatural is actually a film that presents a lot of information that does not seem to have much relevance to the story, but that in the course of the plot will be of great importance to understand the greater mystery than the family. We are presented with the family routine that does not seem to give much importance to the signs that the house is not the safest.

a great moment in the film is when the father goes to the spirit world to rescue his son. it is possible to accompany the father during this good moment of the plot. The supernatural world is shown as a dark place filled with memories of other ghosts. The feeling is almost like being on a ghost train.

Insidious involves mysticism, religion, has an excellent soundtrack, impeccable visual effects, not to mention the dense and macabre scenery in most scenes.