Winterkälte's Five Favorite Horror Films
Running both Winterkälte and the record label HANDS tends to leave Udo Wießmann a bit busy, but that didn't stop him from partaking in our Horror-thon. In his list, he mentions one of the most notorious vampires in the history of film and a Kubrick classic that has hit a multitude of other lists.
Udo - "It’s never easy to figure out a limited number of favorites, even though - or perhaps especially because I’m not an expert in horror movies. For me the last days have been the come-down after Maschinenfest, back to reality in a rainy Ruhr Area, and out of that mood I decided to choose the following."
"Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
"Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1922, it features Max Schreck in one of the best vampire performances of all times. Together with 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' by Robert Wiene I think this is the horror genre’s hour of birth. Everything has to be started by creative artists - so probably this is the most influential horror movie for the things that followed in the next decades."
"Antichrist" by Lars Von Trier
"Dark Water" by Hideo Nakata
"Hideo Nakata's movie from 2002, based on a short story of Kōji Suzuki, is my last recommendation, but also the remake by Walter Salles from 2005 is worth watching. I wanted to have at least one Japanese movie in my list. It’s a quite simple story and has all those clichés, but if you are in the right mood it will convince you with all the subtlety a horror movie can concede; perhaps less frightening than “Ring” but intense with a great feeling for speed, cuts and atmosphere. If I look out of the window at the moment with the rainy weather closing in, I feel it’s the perfect one for Halloween 2015 and has to be in my personal top 5 list!"
Udo - "It’s never easy to figure out a limited number of favorites, even though - or perhaps especially because I’m not an expert in horror movies. For me the last days have been the come-down after Maschinenfest, back to reality in a rainy Ruhr Area, and out of that mood I decided to choose the following."
"Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau"Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1922, it features Max Schreck in one of the best vampire performances of all times. Together with 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' by Robert Wiene I think this is the horror genre’s hour of birth. Everything has to be started by creative artists - so probably this is the most influential horror movie for the things that followed in the next decades."
"The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick
"Can’t remember if 'Shining' or 'Alien' by Ridley Scott was the first horror movie I ever watched on German television, they were the ones that I cut my teeth on regarding the genre. Both are also undisputed masterpieces of timeless quality, still fresh today."
"Let The Right One In" by Tomas Alfredson
"'Let the Right on In' is one out of two movies in my list which are young (i.e. younger than ten years). It was a big surprise and strong refreshment for the genre in 2008. I especially enjoyed the 'Swedish' realism and also the love story - which is quite unique for cinema. Together with 'Only Lovers Left Alive' by Jim Jarmusch (which opinion did not really fit on a horror movie list), this is the pinnacle of the modern vampire movie to me."
"Antichrist" by Lars Von Trier"A milestone of darkness from 2009, with great imagery and strong storyline - and one of the most discussed movies of the last decade. There are also references to Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski, whom Lars von Trier dedicated this movie to. 'Antichrist' is touching on many different levels, and possibly strikes even too hard in some way."
"Dark Water" by Hideo Nakata"Hideo Nakata's movie from 2002, based on a short story of Kōji Suzuki, is my last recommendation, but also the remake by Walter Salles from 2005 is worth watching. I wanted to have at least one Japanese movie in my list. It’s a quite simple story and has all those clichés, but if you are in the right mood it will convince you with all the subtlety a horror movie can concede; perhaps less frightening than “Ring” but intense with a great feeling for speed, cuts and atmosphere. If I look out of the window at the moment with the rainy weather closing in, I feel it’s the perfect one for Halloween 2015 and has to be in my personal top 5 list!"
Oct 20 2015
Steven Gullotta
info@brutalresonance.comI've been writing for Brutal Resonance since November of 2012 and now serve as the editor-in-chief. I love the dark electronic underground and usually have too much to listen to at once but I love it. I am also an editor at Aggressive Deprivation, a digital/physical magazine since March of 2016. I support the scene as much as I can from my humble laptop.
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