Charles Laughton

One For The Table: I Love Horror — When my brother and I were 4 1/2 we were taken to see a movie called X-76 Bloodrust. I can't find a single living soul who has ever heard of this movie. Not even John Landis. What I gleaned about the plot, which was observed through a space between two fingers covering my eyes, was that this undulating creature (that looked like vomit) was created in a Sparkletts bottle, and if it touched you, you would die. It might have been the poorer cousin of The Blob. The denouement had this vomit creature trying to force its way out of... [Tags: bela lugosi, boris karloff, charles laughton, chiller, christopher lee]

New Yorker Film Festival: The 5 Scariest Movies Ever? — Ben Greenman of the New Yorker presents his list of the five scariest movies of all time. They are: 1. ???Texas Chainsaw Massacre,??? Tobe Hooper (1974) 2. ???The Silence of the Lambs,??? Jonathan Demme (1991) 3. ???The Body Snatcher,??? Robert Wise (1945) 4. ???Night of the Hunter,??? Charles Laughton (1955) 5. ???Mulholland Drive,??? David Lynch (2001) David Lynch is the master of the eerie, which has also been called the uncanny, and his strongest films successfully deliver shock-horror at the conclusion of scenes that are either comically mundane or traditionally suspenseful. Many filmgoers remember ???Mulholland Drive??? mainly for Robert... [Tags: body snatcher, charles laughton, creepy performance, history of film, horrible moment]