This is a pretty good list of some devastatingly beautiful horror movies.

Horror I think has the potential for compelling beauty as nowhere else can assemble tableaux of such contrasts of human experience.

But they missed a few (says the movie buff) though I’ll only concentrate on one.

Trick ‘r Treat by Michael Dougherty– perhaps the most underrated horror film of all time – is simply stunningly beautiful. Take a look. Some of the best shots I can’t find and don’t feel like capping them, but these will do:

What a gem of a movie in so many ways. And it heavily features female characters (and not just getting killed, though they do that too – but so do the men). And in one set of scenes, well,  getting killed is quite the opposite of what happens.

(Nearly everyone in the movie including “Little Red Riding Hood” above is in their Halloween costumes as the movie occurs on that day. Makes for some great light allegory and expectation-switching.)