Some of my favorite films in no particular order:
Apocalypse Now, The Master, Perfume:Story of a Murderer, Antichrist, The Whale, Mother!, The Fountain, To The Wonder, The Thin Red Line, Tree of Life, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001, The Shining, Silence, Interstellar, Oppenheimer, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Synecdoche New York, Waking Life, Before Sunrise and the sequel: Before Sunset, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Crash (David Cronenberg’s film, not the dumb racism one), Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (must watch the original show first), No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, Romance and Cigarettes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 12 Angry Men, Vertigo, Closer, Gone Girl, La Dolce Vita, the Seventh Seal, Solaris (Tarkofsky’s version), JFK, I Heart Huckabees, Annihilation, The Lighthouse, Heat, Baby Driver, Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Shame, Children of Men, Wings of Desire, Groundhog Day, Villeneuve’s Dune and Sicario.
TV:
Twin Peaks, Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager; Peaky Blinders, X-Files(seasons1-7), In Treatment(season1), Rome, the Wire, the Leftovers, LOST, Mr. Robot, Ozark, Person of Interest, Sopranos, Andor, Dark, Man in the High Castle (seasons 1+2), Westworld (season 1), the OA, Silo, Dark Matter.
What. No John Carpenter???!!! No ‘The Thing’?
Or ‘They Live’, or ‘Prince of Darkness’???
Haha. No, I think most slasher films play off adolescent fears of the body and sexual guilt. “They Live” is certainly interesting, but not really what I have in mind when I think of the best films