It also looks to shake things up with its location.
Here are just a few of the best to use the New York landscape to the films benefit.
Its not just her great acting that makes the film work though.
The brownstone apartment is dark and gloomy, a seemingly perfect place for demons to reside.
Argento gives us sweeping New York architecture in his signature palette.
There are burning buildings and even a brutal knife attack at night in the New York City streets.
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The apartment building makes for a perfectly creepy playhouse of madness.
This film leaned into the times by making The Big Apple look rotten.
DirectorWilliam Lustingdoesnt keep his action confined indoors.
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He takes the horror to the streets, showing us the dirt and sleaziness of the city.
It parallels the look and personality of this maddening horror shows villain, a deranged man played byJoe Spinell.
The two brothers take residence in a hotel room, before seeking revenge on the doctors who separated them.
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(1984)
This film is one of the more fun, schlocky 80s horror films.
Theres your standard view of trash-riddled alleyways, darkened streets, and skyscrapers in the background.
The eighth entry sought to spice things up by moving the hockey-masked killer to New York.
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We dont get the desired scenes of Jason at the Empire State Building or in Madison Square Garden.
A few years after the war, Jacob lives in a grimy Brooklyn apartment.
Later, the same creatures chase him down in a car through the city streets.
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Desperate for a sequel, Warner Bros. let directorJoe Dantehave full creative control to do whatever he wanted.
He took advantage of that freedomto create a zany horror comedywithGremlins 2: The New Batchthat no one expected.
When Gizmo gets wet again inside the building, the Gremlins take over.
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Cloverfield (2008)
One of the most successful, and clever found footage movies is thisJ.J.
Abrams-produced andMatt Reeves-helmed film that sought to be Americas version ofGodzilla.Cloverfieldworks thanks tothe inventive filmmaking behind it.
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