By Andrew Buckner
From the entertaining to the extreme, here is a list of thirty-one great lesser known horror films from 1920-2018 to make your Halloween season unforgettable.
1. At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)
Director: Jose Mojica Marins.
2. Onibaba (1964)
Director: Kaneto Shindo.
3. Begotten (1990)
Director: E. Elias Merhige.
4. Possum (2018)
Director: Matthew Holness.
5. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Director: Georges Franju.
6. Haxan (1922)
Director: Benjamin Christensen.
7. Carnival of Souls (1962)
Director: Herk Harvey.
8. 10 Rillington Place (1971)
Director: Richard Fleischer.
9. Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Director: T.F. Mous.
10. Visions of Suffering (2006)
Director: Andrey Iskanov.
11. The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013)
Directors: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani.
12. Mark of the Devil (1970)
Director: Michael Armstrong.
13. Antichrist (2009)
Director: Lars von Trier.
14. Three…Extremes (2004)
Directors: Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park.
15. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Director: Ingmar Bergman.
16. Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972)
Director: Bob Clark.
17. A Cat in the Brain (1990)
Director: Lucio Fulci.
18. Magic (1978)
Director: Richard Attenborough.
19. Bloodsucking Freaks (1976)
Director: Joel M. Reed.
20. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Director: Nicolas Gessner.
21. Curse of the Demon (1957)
Director: Jacques Tourner.
22. Vampyr (1932)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer.
23. The Old Dark House (1932)
Director: James Whale.
24. Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack.
25. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Director: Eugene Lourie.
26. Dead of Night (1945)
Directors: Alberto Calvacanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer.
27. I Bury the Living (1958)
Director: Albert Band.
28. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Director: Robert Wiene.
29. Brain Damage (1988)
Director: Frank Henenlotter.
30. Pieces (1982)
Director: J.P. Simon.
31. Eraserhead (1977)
Director: David Lynch.