25 Best Horror Films of All Time
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Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2010 6:33:28 am PDT #11770 of 30000
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tommyrot - Oct 28, 2010 6:38:26 am PDT #11771 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 28, 2010 6:40:40 am PDT #11772 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's a good list, but while I like most of the modern horror films listed I think they should be replaced by some classics like The Bride of Frankenstein and Curse of the Demon. No way should Return of the Living Dead be ranked as better than those.
Fred Pete - Oct 28, 2010 6:44:52 am PDT #11773 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Freaks is creepy as all get-out, but I don't think it's too scary for a die-hard horror fan.
I think it qualifies as revenge-horror. And it does get scary. When you think about how they must have transformed her....
(Or maybe it's just a fine line between creepy and scary.)
DavidS - Oct 28, 2010 7:06:36 am PDT #11774 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Freaks is definitely a horror film, not only in its lineage through Tod Browning (who directed all of Lon Chaney's horror silents, but also directed Lugosi in Dracula). But also as a touchstone of Body Horror, a long-running strand through horror films which emerges in sixties gore (Blood Feast), post Night of the Living Dead zombie films, Cronenberg's early movies and the recent round of torture horror (Saw, Hostel, et al.)
In Stephen King's taxonomy of scares laid out in Danse Macabre he specifically notes that Horror (as distinct from Terror) must involve some deformation or violence to the physical body.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2010 7:19:27 am PDT #11775 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hey, I just watched Evil Dead on Tuesday and Evil Dead II yesterday! I was going to skip Army of Darkness since I've already seen it, but it's been a while, and I need to complete the trilogy. Evil Dead was incredibly gross but often pretty terrifying in its low-budget glory. Evil Dead II was pretty hilarious and has the best Hemingway-related visual gag ever.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2010 7:33:48 am PDT #11776 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Laga - Oct 28, 2010 7:39:25 am PDT #11777 of 30000
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I love the commenter who said Fargo = Minnesota = fail. Durr... try watching the movie, dude.
Daisy Jane - Oct 28, 2010 7:40:36 am PDT #11778 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I am a little uncomfortable with the movie chosen to represent Louisiana.
The synopsis: A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
That doesn't seem so much representative to me.
bon bon - Oct 28, 2010 7:41:58 am PDT #11779 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I don't think the guy who created that map is terribly well-traveled. Sounds like real linkbait.