UNILAD RANKS: Terrifier 3 Director Damien Leone Reveals His Five Best Horror Movies – News

Terrorist 3 Director Damien Leone has revealed his five favorite “unofficial” horror films.

Outside of having directed one of the most talked about horrors to be released in 2024, what you saw nine people leave In the opening scenes of a screening and a vomit, Damien Leone knows a thing or two about the genre.

And what better way to launch the UNILAD Classified series ahead of Hallowe’en You have to ask the director what his five best are horror Although the movies are, he told UNILAD in an interview for Terrorist 3 “This is not an official list.”

5) The rosemary baby (1968)

You call your friends to talk about ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (Paramount Pictures)

Leone’s major ‘unofficial’ horror release in reverse order is 1968 rosemary’s baby, written and directed by Roman Polanski and produced by William Castle.

Based on 1967 by Ira Levin novelThe film focuses on couple Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) who move into an apartment block in New Yorkdespite its sinister occupants and their strange comings and goings.

When Rosemary becomes pregnant, her suspicions about her neighbors grow and it turns out there are much darker forces at play.

The film is widely considered “one of the best horror films ever made”, achieving an impressive rotten tomatoes critic score of 96 percent and audience score of 87 percent.

However, it has since been tarnished in light of the actions of writer-director Polanski, who was arrested for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.

He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, but fled the US for France.

4) Hallowe’en (1978)

You when you hear a noise at home after watching ‘Halloween’ (Compass International Pictures)

The independent slasher – billed as Halloween by John Carpenter – was written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, who also produced.

And what’s creepier than a six-year-old boy named Michael Myers (Nick Castle) deciding to brutally murder his 17-year-old sister on Halloween night in 1963?

Myers ends up locked up for 15 years for crimebut he finally manages to free himself and decides to return to his hometown to finish what he started.

Local teenager Laurie Strode (played by Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis) You better be prepared to take care of her.

The film became a franchise, consisting of a whopping 13 films, and well, it’s a cult classic for a reason, earning a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 96 percent and an audience score of 89. percent.

3) dawn of the dead (1978)

You’re Preparing for a Zombie Apocalypse (United Film Distribution Company)

Another oldie from 1978, but gold, with some ’70s-style gray zombies added to the mix.

Written and directed by George Romero, dawn of the dead It centers on a large-scale zombie apocalypse in the US and focuses on four survivors in particular and their battle against all odds.

The film is not only a survival story, but has been praised for offering a humorous yet bleak social commentary on the state of humanity.

Several moments in the film were so gruesome that they ended up being cut from the original. United Kingdom movie version (think slow-motion zombie heads exploding, dismembering, and machine-gunning a zombie kid); However, in 2003, all cuts were undone and the Blu-Ray release contained all the gory details of the film.

The American edition of the film was even given an ‘X’ age rating (i.e. 18 years or older) by the Motion Picture Association of America due to how graphic the violence is; However, the classification was rejected to help with the film’s commercial prospects: you have been warned.

With a solid Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 91 percent and an audience score of 90 percent, it’s no wonder the film has been praised by many online as a “masterpiece.”

2) The lost children (1987)

Corey Haim and Jason Patric in ‘The Lost Boys’ (Warner Bros. Inc)

From a story by Janice Fischer and James Jeremias, with writer Jeffrey Boam joining for the screenplay, The lost children It was directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Harvey Bernhard.

The film centers on two teenage brothers, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), who move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to live with their grandfather (Barnard Hughes) in Northern California.

Michael ends up falling in love with a girl named Star (played by richest actor on the planet Jami Gertz), who is part of a local gang of particularly vicious and sharp-toothed predators, a group that his younger brother Sam’s new friends actively hunt.

The question is: Will Michael join them or will Sam and the rest of his family be able to save him in time?

The lost children It may be in second place on Leone’s “unofficial” horror list, but it has a lower Rotten Tomatoes score than those below it in the ranks, arriving with a still-solid 76 percent critics score and a audience score of 85 percent.

1) JAWS (1975)

Your face when you see the shark for the first time (Universal Pictures)

At the top of Leone’s ‘unofficial’ list of the best horror films of all time is none other than JAWS.

Based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley, the thriller was written by Benchley along with Carl Gottlieb and directed by Steven Spielberg.

The film begins after a young woman is murdered by a shark after bathing naked on an island.

Concerned about people’s safety, Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) speaks out against him in an attempt to maintain tourism.

The story really starts to get complicated when ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and ship captain Quint (Robert Shaw) join Brody on a mission to capture the shark and kill it.

Despite going well over budget and having the mechanical sharks wrapped up in the blink of an eye, the film has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 97 percent and an audience score of 90 percent.

It went on to inspire a franchise (with a total of four films to date), plus video games, theme park attractions, and a musical, and won multiple Academy Awards, including for its score composed by the masterful teacher that is John Williams.

Even if you were born after the year 2000, you can probably hum the iconic tuba notes from the film even if you haven’t seen them, and Williams describes them as ‘rolling with you, just as a shark would roll’ – iconic.

Nobly, Leone did not include any films from the terrifying franchise in their unofficial top five, but with an impressive Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 76 percent and a “verified hot” audience score of 87 percent, along with a rare age banspectators leaving and someone even vomiting: you’ll want to try to catch Terrorist 3 in theaters before its broadcast ends.

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