Immerse yourself once again in the world of provocative Spanish illustrator and friend of GATA Magazine, Gairah Praskovia.

This time, she tells us her ten favourite horror movies and presents them to us through her own exclusive illustrations.

Check them out, and don't forget to watch these classics!

#10 Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)

Watching Funky Forest is like flipping channels on Japanese TV. Another comparison might be the mixtape, as it clearly states that the end of "Side A" is about halfway through the frame. From a Western perspective, linguistic and cultural differences are enough to confuse and inspire a naive sense of awe magnified by sheer weirdness. Some characters, like the brothers mentioned above, and environments, like a high school classroom, come and go as if an unfamiliar hand were operating the remote. Of course, some viewers will find these interruptions offensive, but for viewers more accustomed to experimental narrative structures, the cut creates a series of bizarre vignettes, some taking too long, others providing hilarious surprise. For those who might be drunk, a little liquid or smoky lube does help move the movie.

#9 Open House (1987)

Madness breaks out in a town when real estate agents in the area start turning up murdered... The police, a psychologist and another real estate agent will try to solve the crime...

#8 As the Gods Will (2014)

Based on the Japanese manga, As the Gods Will follows the exploits of high school students trapped first in their respective high schools and later in floating cubes above the city. They have to survive each other and some traditional Japanese toys, causing harm on purpose. The film shines in the presentation of Gonzo, where students compete with toys and must achieve specific goals (such as pressing a button). Like a crazy Japanese game show, you never know what's going to happen next, and I won't spoil the surprises here.

This movie brings back my experience with the Danganronpa or Squid Game, especially since the game also includes high school students who are trapped against their will. I hope the death of the character means something, not just a display of fire hydrant blood.

#7 Braindead (1992) Your mom has eaten my dog.

It's a movie where you expect nothing and you end up with everything. Zombies having sex, priest martial arts experts, tarot card reading grandmothers and many many more unexpected and bizarre moments.

A scientist has discovered a very strange rat monkey on Skull Island, which locals say is accompanied by a terrible curse. Specimens will be transferred to New Zealand for research. Lionel, on the other hand, is a young man living with his unbearable mother who disapproves of his fledgling relationship with the shopkeeper's daughter, Paquita. When the two lovers visited the zoo, she surreptitiously watched over them and was bitten by an animal found on the island. Gradually, Lionel's mother turned into a kind of zombie, hungry for meat, and she turned all the people she attacked into zombies.

#6 The Human Centipede (2009)

Let’s see. We are faced with an extreme character, some extreme situations, and a crazy series of events, all tempered by the motivations of a failed surgeon, a great connoisseur of medicine who wants nothing more than to satisfy his most primitive and instinctive desire: to create. Does it play god no, things don't seem so easy. Rather, it acts as a complex mechanism that divides equally between the most irrational insanity and the most rational perversion. Because while Haight created a behemoth just to see if he could do it, he also did it with pure science and superlative knowledge in his head. We're talking about a man who was once an extraordinary surgeon and still is today. So the scariest thing is: Heiter isn't crazy, he's just addicted to knowledge. Horror is something the character is born with and doesn't revolve around him. Brilliant.

#5 The Silence of The Lambs (1991)

Fascinated by Hannibal, Clarice meets the ruthless killer asking for his help in this powerful psychological thriller. Clarice Starling is an ambitious young FBI academy student tasked with asking Hannibal Lecter, a talented psychiatrist and ruthless killer, for help in solving a serial murder case. Lecter's uncanny knowledge of human behaviour and strong personality will immediately attract Clarice, with whom Clarice cannot control herself and develops an ambiguous, disturbing, and dangerous relationship. One of my favourite films ever.

#4 REC 3: Genesis (2012)

This instalment is the bloodiest, funniest and most entertaining of the saga, in which we will be delighted with the exceptional work of the director Paco Plaza. Another of the notorious changes resides in the protagonists, this time the protagonists embark on separate adventures in an attempt to meet again. The interpretations are sober and believable with a transformation of the protagonist, which will surprise the viewers. Also recommended Rec 1 and 2.

#3 Guinea Pig: Devil’s Experiment (1985)

Honestly, I don't even know why this movie exists. Of course, I guess you could say it exists only for shock. But to be fair, it's a damn empty excuse for a movie that exists so empty. There doesn't seem to be an attempt to comment here; it has almost no information. For the reasons mentioned above, the film failed even on a technical level. Handshakes and personality clashes aside, there are few barriers to technical impressions. I could have gone out with the camera and shot the same movie, except for the gore at the end. Devil's Experiment is still a terrifying first impression.

#2 Goodnight Mommy (2014)

The name Goodnight Mommy (taken from its original German name Ich seh Ich seh (or I see I see it) for an English-speaking audience) belies the film's high standards. It looks and sounds great compared to the low-budget recycling fare that has dominated the annual horror movie menu of late. This is a welcome change. The story takes place in a gorgeous family home, but in the hands of directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the property's sleek modernism and blog-worthy decor quickly feel depressing as the home feels more like a prison. Like Stanley Kubrick in The Shining, Franz and Fiala subtly harvest the natural claustrophobia that can occur even in physically expanded environments. There are no neighbours for miles. Instead, cornfields, lakes, forests, and sometimes locks on doors reinforce the isolation of the family.

So yeah, recommended for viewers who are looking for a horror that isn't all about cheap jump scares but more of a psychological one.

#1 The Pillow Book (1996)

The Pillow Book, reawakens the controversy surrounding the cinema of this British filmmaker. Hermetic and pedantic for some, imaginative and suggestive for others. On this occasion, with the invaluable help of the photographer Sacha Vierny, he traces in his peculiar way a story about human bodies turned into living books and, as a cultured man, he manifests his refinement with exquisite images full of plastic references and beautiful musical fragments, in a totally free treatment of time and space that departs completely from naturalism to stylistically approach the expressive modes of the modern video clip.

Thus, the traditional argument of conventional narrative cinema is shattered, and dynamited in this story, captured in numbered sequences that leave the viewer full freedom to interpret the beautiful images through which they can reconstruct in their own way the entity of the characters and of her particular obsessions: the girl who goes from being a parchment to a brush, carrier of signs to producer of texts, when she becomes older; the compulsive search for partners who combine the quality of expert lovers and excellent calligraphers; the fatal mixture of eroticism, jealousy, passion, death...

An attempt is made to combine the pleasures of sex and literature, of the flesh and the spirit, but the majority presence of Japanese signs prevents the meaning of the texts from reaching the Western viewer, with which the most evident is the merely fetishistic cult, material and pictorial, to bodies and labels, a union of support and message that is constitutive of living books as an object of supreme worship, a manifestation of intellectual enjoyment that, for Greenaway, constitutes the peak of hedonism to which one can aspire.