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Mike Flanagan shares epic list of his favourite horror movies on Letterboxd

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Horror showrunner Mike Flanagan has joined Letterboxd and shared a long list of his favourite horror movies.
A man standing on the red carpet smiles. An X post from Mike Flanagan is visible on the left of the image.

Between The Fall of the House of Usher, The Midnight Club, The Haunting of Hill House, and many more, Mike Flanagan is quickly becoming one of horror’s household names.

But what horror movies does the man himself like what watching? On Sunday, the writer/director joined the film-focused social media platform Letterboxd, and his first port of call was drawing up some all-time favourite lists.

“Finally joined Letterboxd,” wrote Flanagan on Twitter/X. “Only positing positivity, and it’s going to take me a few weeks to catch up on building my profile, but here’s a start.”

One of the lists contained a roundup of Mike Flanagan’s favourite horror movies of all-time. We’ve shared it below in full, ordered alphabetically:

  • The Addiction (1995)

  • An American Werewolf in London (1981)

  • The Beach House (2019)

  • The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)

  • The Blair Witch Project (1999)

  • The Blob (1988)

  • The Borderlands (2013)

  • Braindead (1992)

  • Bug (2006)

  • Candyman (1992)

  • Cargo (2017)

  • Carrie (1976)

  • Cat People (1942)

  • Censor (2021)

  • Creep (2014)

  • Creep 2 (2017)

  • Cronos (1992)

  • Cube (1997)

  • Cure (1997)

  • A Dark Song (2016)

  • Dawn of the Dead (1978)

  • The Dead Zone (1983)

  • The Deeper You Dig (2019)

  • The Descent (2005)

  • The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

  • Donnie Darko (2001)

  • Don’t Look Now (1973)

  • Drag Me To Hell (2009)

  • The Endless (2017)

  • Event Horizon (1997)

  • Evil Dead 2 (1987)

  • The Exorcist (1973)

  • The Exorcist III (1990)

  • The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

  • Flatliners (1990)

  • The Fog (1980)

  • Frailty (2001)

  • Fresh (2022)

  • Fright Night (1985)

  • Ghostwatch (1992)

  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

  • Green Room (2015)

  • The Hallow (2015)

  • Halloween (1978)

  • The Haunting (1963)

  • Hellbender (2021)

  • The Hole in the Ground (2019)

  • The Host (2006)

  • The Innocents (1961)

  • In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

  • The Invitation (2015)

  • Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

  • Jaws (1975)

  • Ju-on: The Curse (2000)

  • Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)

  • Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

  • Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003)

  • Kill List (2011)

  • Lake Mungo (2008)

  • Let the Right One In (2008)

  • The Lost Boys (1987)

  • Martyrs (2008)

  • Midsommar (2019)

  • Mimic (1997)

  • New Nightmare (1994)

  • Nightbreed (1990)

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

  • Night of the Living Dead (1968)

  • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

  • The Omen (1976)

  • One Cut of the Dead (2017)

  • Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

  • The Orphanage (2007)

  • The Others (2001)

  • The Outwaters (2022)

  • Paranormal Activity (2007)

  • Poltergeist (1982)

  • Pontypool (2008)

  • The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

  • Predator (1987)

  • Primer (2004)

  • Resolution (2012)

  • The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

  • The Ritual (2017)

  • Saint Maud (2019)

  • The Shining (1980)

  • The Signal (2007)

  • The Sixth Sense (1999)

  • Something in the Dirt (2022)

  • Spring (2014)

  • The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

  • A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

  • Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

  • Terrifier 2 (2022)

  • They Look Like People (2015)

  • The Thing (1982)

  • Thirst (2009)

  • Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)

  • Train to Busan (2016)

  • Tremors (1990)

  • The Vast of Night (2019)

  • The Wailing (2016)

  • Watcher (2022)

  • Where the Devil Roams (2023)

  • The Woman in Black (1989)

  • You Won’t Be Alone (2022)

Flanagan has also shared lists of his favourite movies in general and his favourite independent horror movies. You can see all his lists on Letterboxd.

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John Carpenter scares Stephen Colbert backstage in ‘Late Show’ Halloween opener

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John Carpenter made a return to “The Late Show” to scare Stephen Colbert backstage.
A man wearing a suit looks behind him, appearing unnerved, while walking down a corridor.

Given that it’s Halloween and he was just on The Late Show show recently, it seems only right that legendary horror director John Carpenter made a brief return to make Stephen Colbert jump.

In the clip above the host is walking backstage when Carpenter pops out at him, before the two have a silly exchange in which Colbert casually dismisses his biggest franchise.

“You’re the master of horror,” says Colbert. “The Fog, The Thing, They Live, Christine, In the Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness—”

Halloween?” responds Carpenter.

“Yeah, it’s Halloween!”

“No no no, my movie, Halloween.”

“Oh, the movie! Yeah, never really did it for me. But they can’t all be winners. Thanks John!”