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The trick here is co-ordinating the sixth string palm mutes between the other notes. Try using alternate picking for the first three upbeats, and downstrokes for the rest.

Because believe it or not, we used to play without a bass player. It was just Alex and I. The less thinking I do, the better. Get out of my own way! Our lick navigates a turnaround with minor-to-major-3rd hammer-ons. It just seems to be the way it is. The archetypal Deep Purple sound is quite unusual for a Strat. I think it has something to do with my Marshall being souped up a little, with an extra output stage.

In fact, I need another one, just in case it goes wrong. Anyway, that works really well. It is in a place in time and whatever you did, you did it for some reason. I work pretty hard on my solos but would I do some over again? Yeah, I probably would. The solo in Bravado for example, was at throwaway solo, just filling the demo, but it's among my favourites now. In a career now spanning over 50 years, Jeff Beck can truthfully be said to have pushed the boundaries of contemporary electric guitar playing consistently and beyond the expectation of his fans.

Enough said! Cut each diad short and pick with a fair amount of force. Pinball Wizard is always a good one! I stay really close to obeying my inner instructions, and that is to complement, complement and complement. And the only way to do that is to always listen. It means that you have learned honour and respect for those who came here before you. Though his pick-hand position might appear unusual, Mark is able to control every nuance of his sumptuous tones and Strat cleans with a beautifully sensitive touch.

Most of the time I just use the guitar as something to help the songwriting. Keep the fourth string ringing as you alternate between the diads in bar 1. Finger the D at the end of bar 1 right and the lick that opens bar 2 will be easier.

Alien doesn't resemble many sci-fi movies of the time. Artist H. Giger designed a world full of twisted tubes, cold hallways, and pervasive darkness. Before Alien, pop culture never warned us how dark, dirty and scary the cold depths of space were.

Director Ridley Scott adopted a "less is more" approach that later sequels sadly abandoned; modern directors can cram all the Aliens and Predators and Michael Fassbender androids they want into their films, but none can match the sheer claustrophobic terror generated in the original film. Scene to watch with the lights on: Dinner with Kane and the crew of the Nostromo, fresh after Kane wakes up from his facehugger coma, ends with Kane disagreeing with something that ate its way out of his chest.

They don't get much better than this, movie fans. Certainly there were those of us on the IGN staff who argued that this James Whale classic should've been higher on our list -- perhaps even number one. But compromise being what it is, director James Whale, Colin Clive, Boris Karloff and the rest have had to settle for fifth place.

The film is the apex of the Universal cycle of classic monster pictures in terms of quality. Rather than simply regurgitating a cheap variation on the first Frankenstein which is basically what many of the Universal sequels would go on to do , Whale opted to, ahem, flesh out the story and characters of the original which he also directed.

Karloff, in his second turn as the Monster, granted his most famous creation the gift of speech here, and of friendship, and even love. Also, of humor -- Bride of Frankenstein is a comedy as much as it is a horror film. Brimming with wonderful side characters oh, Doctor Pretorius, how we miss you and often unsettling imagery Jesus H. Christ, did they just crucify the Monster?

To paraphrase Doctor Pretorius, "It is our only weakness". Scene to watch with the lights on: The finale, when the Bride is finally created only to spurn the Monster, which is a very bad thing to do for anyone who values not getting blown up in an exploding mountainside laboratory.

Psycho can be seen as the film that birthed the slasher genre, and Texas Chain Saw Massacre was an integral step in its progress, making things more visceral. But it was Halloween that truly defined this subgenre in horror, inspiring a million sequels, rip-offs, imitations and homages. Take an instantly identifiable holiday, add in a chillingly silent, unstoppable masked killer and a feisty, resourceful heroine and you have Halloween But John Carpenter brought a sense of tension and suspense few others could match in a slasher film, as we watched Michael Myers stalk Laurie Strode Jamie Lee Curtis from afar, before going on his inevitable killing spree.

Michael himself is an excellent villain, wearing a blank, emotionless mask that perfectly captured the black soul of someone who simply killed and killed, and seemingly couldn't be stopped, no matter what you did to him.

It's no wonder Michael became a horror icon and that fans rebelled when he didn't appear in Halloween III. After all, Michael Myers and Halloween -- both the film and the actual holiday -- are now forever intertwined. Scene to watch with the lights on: Laurie Strode is trying to hide from Michael Myers, and crouches down inside a closet.

She manages to tie the door shut, but that's not going to stop Michael, who begins smashing the door in, causing light to shine in and for Michael's spooky mask to come into plain view of the understandably terrified Laurie. Psycho is both one of the greatest thrillers of all time and one of the greatest entries in Alfred Hitchcock's legendary resume.

A true master of suspense and tension, Hitchcock crafted a memorable horror experience with a limited cast and even more limited budget. Like so many great horror movies, Psycho's scares far exceed its limited scale. The film tells the story of crazy old Norman Bates and his even crazier mother. When a young woman on the run from the law arrives at the remote Bates Motel, she falls victim to a knife-wielding killer.

Several more victims are claimed before the true secret of the Bates family stands revealed. The content of Psycho isn't as shocking as it was way back in After all, girls get stabbed in the shower all the time in modern horror cinema. However, it's a testament to Hitchcock's skill as a director that Psycho remains a tense and nerve-wracking experience. The killing of Janet Leigh's character and the accompanying musical key by Bernard Herrmann is one of the most famous scenes in Hollywood history.

Psycho is such a classic of the genre that it inspired a shot-for-shot remake in It's also had sequels and a TV show based on the tale. Scene to watch with the lights on: What scene could we pick but the quintessential shower slaying?

Coupled with that amazing music cue, it remains a horror classic almost 60 years later. We hear it and we're the shaking-in-our-boots equivalent of Pavlov's Dog. The movie's premise -- a little girl possessed by a demon -- is scary enough as words on paper. But what director William Friedkin does with it, aside from prove that he has a seriously strong or frightfully off constitution for this sort of stuff, is treat the extraordinary of it all as if it were really happening next door to us.

The scares come from a place based in faith, where Heaven and hell are as real as your beliefs in them care to be. Faith, for all the documentation on the subject, is tethered to the intangible; it's not something science can define or strategize.

The demon that comes from The Exorcist's interpretation of that idea is something more powerful than a Freddy or a Jason. Something that can't be shot or stabbed or detonated. Before it can be attacked, let alone defeated, it has to first be believed in -- as terrible and soul-threatening as this may be to the young priest and old priest charged with delivering the climatic exorcism. Fathers Karras and Merrin spend the third act of the movie fighting back the devil for control of young Regan's soul.

And in doing so, Karras, a man of wavering faith throughout most of the movie, finally believes in the only true good he knows by sacrificing himself to save that little girl.

Film-school analyze this movie more if you want. Bottom line: It is the best horror movie about the consequences of belief ever made. Scene to watch with the lights on: All of it.

No no no, trust us. Watch it at mid-day, with the blinds open and the lights on. And then get used to the fact that you may never, ever sleep again. The Shining might just be Stephen King's most popular horror novel. Stanley Kubrick's movie adaptation is almost certainly the most popular Stephen King film. The project was an unusually commercially-focused one for Kubrick, but the same stylistic elements that defined his earlier films were on full display, and the film remains a haunting and unsettling chronicle of a family man's psychological breakdown.

Jack Nicholson is iconic as Jack Torrance, the struggling writer who accepts a job as winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Mountains. The knowledge that the previous caretaker had gone insane and murdered his family fails to scare Jack away. But when both Jack and his psychically attuned son begin communing with the many spirits haunting the Overlook, things quickly take a turn for the worse.

Deadly hedge mazes, elevators full of blood and the terrifying Room are only some of the horrors that await viewers. Aside from being a genuinely scary film, The Shining has left its mark on modern pop culture. Who doesn't recognize the image of Nicholson poking his head through a doorway and shouting "Here's Johnny! The Shining also served as fodder for one of the best "Treehouse of Horror" segments in the history of The Simpsons.

The film is required viewing for any horror aficionado -- just don't expect to sleep easily that night -- and our pick for the best horror movie ever made. Scene to watch with the lights on: "The blood usually gets off on the third floor. Beware of women in bathtubs that are really Overlook corpses! An American Werewolf in London. A Nightmare on Elm Street Dawn of the Dead. The 25 Best Horror Movies. Our list of movies won't just scare you.

It will mess you up for life! Have you seen Alien? YES NO. Was this article informative? In This Article. Aboard the cargo ship Nostromo, a group of space crewmen are woken up by a distress signal. They find nothing but a derelict space craft and a room full of strange pods. But when one crewman investigates the pods, something grabs him, hugging his face Release Date. Not Rated 86 min Horror. A young drug addict reads his little sister two macabre bedtime stories, one about a serial killer on a blind date, the other about a psychotic priest terrorizing his village.

R 99 min Crime, Drama, Horror. Votes: 19, Cooke , Mik Cribben. Unrated min Comedy, Horror. A liquor store owner sells alcoholic beverages to homeless people, unaware of what the bottles actually contain: toxic brew.

Director: J. Not Rated 80 min Drama, Horror. Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death. Votes: 2, R 92 min Horror. A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents.

Not Rated 80 min Action, Crime, Horror. One last job separates the leader of the Ravens gang from an early retirement. When he finds his girlfriend beaten to death by members of a rival gang, he seeks revenge, knowing that he may be dead by dawn. Will more blood bring her back? Not Rated 98 min Horror. Kristen is caring for her Terminally ill husband who is suffering from a degenerative bone disease. With no cure available she turns to a friend to help find an alternative form of medicine that has unimaginable side effects.

Not Rated 93 min Horror. A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves. Unrated 84 min Comedy, Horror. Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience.

But what the spectators see as a trick is actually real. Director: Joel M. R 93 min Comedy, Horror, Thriller. When a group of tourists in a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.

R min Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi. A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. Not Rated 86 min Action, Comedy, Horror.

A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun. Not Rated 88 min Horror. A group of random people is invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons. Votes: 22, R 83 min Horror, Mystery. The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac. Votes: 8, Comedy, Horror. Sign In.

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Release year or range to ». Error: please try again. Nekromantik Not Rated 71 min Horror 5. The Rage R 85 min Horror 4. Vampire Girl vs. Inside R 82 min Horror 6. Maniac R 87 min Crime, Drama, Horror 6.