Darkness and beauty complement each other.
Horror movies are definitely one of the most glamorous and popular genres of popular cinema.
Iconic villains are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and are now redefining our "aesthetic principles" through horror movies. When darkness falls, we embrace each other, blood is our eternal wine, screaming is our thorough joy, life brings us too much tedium, and horror makes us understand the colorful nightmare world.
No.10
Black cat
The Black Cat
(1934)
Edgar P. G. Umer Edgar G. Ulmer's designer profession gives him an unusual space for directing. Boris Karloff and Bella Lugosi and Bela Lugosi are simply the hallmarks of the horror films of that era, and the use of art deco on the set and furniture in the Gothic style create a unique atmosphere. The modernist style of the film is almost comparable to that of the 19th-century Germanic Gothic suit, designing the typical "universal" horror film.
No.9
Blood with black lace
Six women for the killer
(1964)
Mario Bava's 64 work ranges from the brutal murder of Giallo, to ghosts taken from the legends of Mingma, to Gothic films involving famous stories. This film takes the lighting and color to an extreme. Sometimes a light source without any logic or coherence is used. It had a huge impact on the horror films of later generations.
No.8
Evil spirits
Viy
(1967)
This is my favorite work of Russian horror films, without one, it is difficult to imagine that it was born in the sixties of the former Soviet Union, and at the same time it is the first horror film in the true sense of Soviet Russia, and adapted from the short story of its literary artist Nikolai Gogol. Sure, it's a bit outdated for the West then, and for some horror suit X criminals now, but it's still a visually shocking folk horror film. The imagination is quite good.
No.7
vampire
Cuadecuc, vampire
(1970)
Pere Portabella's experimental films, abstract timbres, black and white tense opposing light and shadow, give a dizzying surreal feel. "Fantasy materialism".
No.6
The work of dreams
Dream Work
(2002)
The avant-garde Austrian director Peter Tscherkassky's unimaginable work, paraphrasing other people's films "discovered shots", turns into a black and white drift, bringing the medium of cinema into the unknown. Multi-level dream nesting, reality and multi-layer dream space fusion, until the space disintegrates, the dream does not exist. Tscherkassky uses a method called "contact printing," in which the film is hand-copied frame by frame onto unexposed film. This terrible beauty is overwhelming.
No.5
Night interview with vampires
Interview with the Vampire:
The Vampire Chronicles
(1994)
Needless to say, this film spans centuries of gorgeous, dark and terrifying beauty.
No.4
The Witch of Love
The Love Witch
(2016)
Anna Biller is a genius, she arranged the film's director, screenwriting, set, music and costume design, making the film relatively complete in visual impact, retro atmosphere combined with atmospheric rendering, making it different.
No.3
From this moment to sunrise
Twixt
(2011)
Francis Ford Coppola's digital cinematic work, with a gloomy vibe, is inspired by the poetry of Alan Poe (the poet Himself also appears in the film, played by Ben Chaplin). Create eerie dream worlds.
No.2
Invades brain cells
The Cell
(2000)
The strange and dreamlike images perfectly show the surrealist imagination of Tasian Tarsem Singh, this is a millennial aesthetic masterpiece, using simulations and references to artworks or installations to make the film come alive in the ocean of dreams. Heal the scars in their young minds. In fact, it is also exploring "pain" and "happiness" itself.
No.1
The girl who returned home alone at night
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
(2013)
Putting this movie first, many people may be surprised. Not only is the film a feature-length debut of Anna Lily Amirpour, but it is also the first female vampire in an Iranian (near-Muslim) film. Filmed in gorgeous and infectious black-and-white shots, a Western Islamic vampire, a cold and sad romantic comedy, it was the most terrifying original film of the year.
Today, as the times continue to evolve, "beauty" is also changing.
"A cunning and sexy vine". nothing more.
What about nightmares, there are too many beautiful things in this world, but they are too hypocritical, a touch of real beauty in that dark corner, why should you refuse?