Chatmandude, Dont't know much about horror films but the last one I watched on DVD - let's say I was made to watch it - was double-bloodcurdling, the scariest of all the horror films I've seen. It was Japanese film - can't remember the name. Some spine-chilling gory scenes. My all-time favs include (not horror ones, mind you!): Amadeus (film adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play on Mozart) Stealing Beauty (Another Bertulucci classic. Jeremy Iron plays the disillusioned English poet. Live Tyler is delectable. Some breathtaking Tuscan scenery) Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick at his best) Casablanca (The Bogart/Bergman duo - captivating, my best love story/war time film ever) Out of Africa Gandhi (The Richard Attenborough masterpiece) Il Postino (in Italian, based on the Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, one of my fav 'magic realist' poets) Schindler's List (Nobody could do it except Spielberg) Saving Pvt Ryan (ditto) The Color Purple (ditto) Forrest Gump The Tin Drum and Death in Venice (Both film adaptation of novels by the German Nobel laureate Thomas Mann. The latter is said to be based on Gustav Mahler, the Austrian composer; Visconti has included plenty of his (Mahler's) music in the film, especially his fifth symphony - hauntingly beautiful. His fifth has got to be my all time fav. No doubt) Films by Felini and Polanski Films by Satyajit Ray (Aagantuk tops my Ray list. Satranj ki khilaadi is also cracking) The Monsoon Wedding (Another Meera Nair - I had better not say anything about Kama Sutra! :)) The list ends here for now - can't remember any more. Will post again if there're more that I've failed to include. Happy Monday and happy watching. Carpe diem