The master of horror is on deck for his fourth Scream film and just released My Soul to Take. To prepare for Halloween, watch scenes from the director's 10 favorite creepy classics.

The master of horror is on deck for his fourth Scream film and just released My Soul to Take. To prepare for Halloween, watch scenes from the director's 10 favorite creepy classics.

I chose to name films that were in the era where I first really started watching movies and fell in love with cinema. I didn’t watch movies as a kid because my family was a member of a church that didn’t think movies were a good thing—they thought they were the work of the devil—so I didn’t see many movies until I was out of college. There was an art house in the town way upstate in New York where I was teaching and I went to every movie that opened there.

Don’t Look Now (1973)

This was one of the movies that just completely enthralled me and scared me at the same time, where I was watching a film that was a pretty moving work of art as well. There are several scenes where the parents glimpse their missing little girl—wearing the raincoat she was wearing when she disappeared—appearing down at the end of a dank alleyway in Venice. The sense that the child is either a ghost or is torturing them with her presence by disappearing was a wonderful example (not that I followed it) of being able to scare without showing blood.

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Author: Wes Craven