Horroris arguably the most versatile genre of movies.
Editing is one of the fundamental pillars of filmmaking.
This is a selection of 10 horror movies with scary-good editing.
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Horror movies rarely come as skillfully engineered and white-knuckle asThe Descent.
What they capture on video will haunt their reality.
Found-footage horror moviesareone of modern horror cinema’s most compelling developments.
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Its domestic believability complements the rather minimal editing style in compelling, goosebump-inducing ways.
A monstrous great white shark.
The three embark on a mission to kill the beast and end its reign of terror.
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
Legendary directorAlfred Hitchcock’s masterpiecePsychois regarded as one of the greatest and culturally significant movies ever made.
This is a movie that transcends genre andchanged how films themselves would be made.
Frequent Hitchcock collaboratorGeorge Tomasinihelmed the edit in a fashionthat beautifully complements Hitchcock’s distinct style and creative sensibilities.
The final edit is immaculatesuitably uncanny, at times disorientating and always distinctive.
There’s really no other horror movie in history that looks, sounds or moves quite likeHereditary.
Babysitter Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) finds herself directly in the path of the merciless killer.
In 1979,English film director Ridley Scottexploded onto the scene with his sci-fi horror masterpiece,Alien.
The end result is a movie that remains just as effective and harrowing today.
A group of friends traveling through rural Texas encounter a family of deranged cannibals, including the terrifying Leatherface.
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As they explore an old homestead, they are systematically hunted down in gruesome ways.
Visionary directorStanley Kubrickwas something of a mad scientist when it came to making movies.
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A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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When her mentally ill mother passes away, Annie, her husband, son, and daughter all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.
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A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
