Walking on train tracks.
Show me dead people walking in a parade. Play shrill and discordant trumpet sounds on a funeral horn that jars the stillness of the morning- but stop frightening me with the grotesque normality of things. Don't show me cigarette butts in ash trays and water running in a sink and lather-covered shaving brushes. These are what shock more than apparitions.
American Psycho, Audition, Battle Royale, Batman Begins, Boondock Saints, Brick, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, City of Angels, Constantine, The Corpse Bride, The Crow, Cry-Baby, Dark City, Dawn of the Dead, Dementia 13, The Devil's Rejects, Dodge Ball, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Equilibrium, Fight Club, Flatliners, Frailty, From Hell, Gone in 60 Seconds, Grindhouse, Harley-Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Heathers, Hitch, The Hole, Horror Hotel, Hostel, House of Haunted Hill, Identity, Ichi the Killer, The Italian Job, Kalifornia, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Last man on Earth, The Lost Boys, Lost in Translation, Lost Highway, Lucky # Slevin, The Machinist, Mad Max, Memento, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Murder in the Heartland, Natural Born Killers, Night of the Comet, Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare Castle, Nosferatu, The Notebook, Not Another Teen Movie, Old Boy, The Outsiders, Pi, Pirates of the Caribbean, Planet Terror, The Prestige, Pulp Fiction, Rebel Without a Cause, Reservoir Dogs, Romeo and Juliet, Rumble Fish, Saw 1 and 2, Serendipity, Se7en, The Silence of the Lambs, Sin City, Sleepy Hollow, Smokin' Aces, Snatch, Suicide Circle, The Terror, True Romance, Thirteen Ghosts, 13 Going on 30, Titanic, Trainspotting, 12 Monkeys, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Ultraviolet, Underworld 1 and 2, Unknown, The Usual Suspects, Van Helsing, V for Vendetta, The Wild One,
Execution by Geoffrey Abbott. Kiss me, Judas, Penny Dreadful, Hell's Half Acre Will Christopher Baer. The Contortionist's Handbook, Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. The Informers, American Psycho, Lunar Park, Glamorama, Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. Survivor, Choke, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Fight Club, Stranger than Fiction, Rant, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. The works of Edgar Allan Poe. Kill Whitey by Ken Harvill. Twilight Zone, From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling. The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Nevermore by William Hjortsberg. All Hallow's Eve by Charles Williams. Where are they Burried? by Tod Benoit. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami. America: What went Wrong? by Bartlett and Steele. Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell. Tex, The Outsiders, That was then this is now, Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton. The Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip Slater. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem.