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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: border on October 22, 2007, 10:39:37 PM

Title: Top 50 Horror Movies of All Time
Post by: border on October 22, 2007, 10:39:37 PM
Courtesy of Rottentomatoes.com (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/features/special/2007/top_horror/?r=50&mid=1099622)

The top 10:

1. “Psycho”
2. “King Kong”
3. “Shaun of the Dead”
4. “Rosemary’s Baby”
5. “The Devil’s Backbone”
6. “28 Days Later”
7. “The Evil Dead”
8. “The Bride of Frankenstein”
9. “Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn”
10. “Repulsion”

I know it's essentially weighted by online reviews it's received -- but yeesh.  Shaun of the Dead in the Top 5?  Halloween and The Exorcist can't even crack the top twenty of because slapsticky crap like Evil Dead 2 gets over-rated by cult sites?  There's also plenty of critical classics that don't really stand up.  Nosferatu and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari are triumphs of the artform, but I don't think of them as the horror films I really wanna watch.  I'm a little confused as to how obvious choices wound up so far down the list, but little-known stuff like "Cat People" ends up at the top.
Title: Re: Top 50 Horror Movies of All Time
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2007, 10:45:33 PM
28 days later?  really?  :(
Title: Re: Top 50 Horror Movies of All Time
Post by: TakingBackSunday on October 22, 2007, 10:48:29 PM
King Kong's not even a fucking horror movie by traditional standards.