Big blow out scenes are so difficult to get exactly right, aren't they? I just watched I've Loved You So Long a couple of weeks ago, and there was one at the end of that movie. I think it worked, but when I know it's coming in a film, I feel anxious. They're so hard to pull off while remaining true to the story and not seeming melodramatic.

One of my alltime favorite blow-up scenes is also one of the most realistic I've ever seen: the scene with Albert Finney and Diane Keaton in the kitchen (hey, another dishwashing scene!) in Shoot the Moon. It was note perfect and utterly hard to watch because it was so real.

From EW.com: 20 Top Horror Films of the Past 20 Years

I haven't seen all of them, but wow do I not agree with their choices of Event Horizon, Scream, or 28 Weeks Later.

Event Horizon pretty much Invalidated the list for me. I like Scream, but top 20? I don't think so. And I don't at all get 28 Weeks Later over 28 Days Later.

The list seemed utterly random, like someone threw a bunch of titles in a hat and pulled out 20 of them.

I enjoyed the comments, which are increasingly bewildered by the list. Because starting with Darkman I, too, was going, "But... that's not a horror movie."

I would put scream in a top 20 though I am not a huge horror movie watcher. I love any movie with a healthy quotient of respectful mockery for the slasher genre.

Event Horizon, not so much.

Because starting with Darkman I, too, was going, "But... that's not a horror movie."

Exactly.

And look, if you're going to include Shaun of the Dead (which I love) on that list, then you also should list Fido.

Hey ... Let The Right One In wasn't on there, was it?

Event Horizon freaked my shit out.

I like Scream, but top 20?

In the last 20 years, though? I can't even think of that many great horror movies released in the last 20 years.

Hey ... Let The Right One In wasn't on there, was it?

Nope, but for some reason From Hell and What Lies Beneath were.

Event Horizon freaked my shit out.

Interesting premise (Solaris as a horror movie would have been better, which is where I thought they were going), great cast, lousy execution.

Nope, but for some reason From Hell and What Lies Beneath were.

Well, I have to admit that I find From Hell lots of fun, and I've never seen What Lies Beneath. But I think they should have bumped Scream for, oh, 30 Days of Night.

In the last 20 years, though? I can't even think of that many great horror movies released in the last 20 years.

There have been, but I'd need to go paw through some back issues of Rue Morgue Magazine to list a bunch.

28 Weeks Later was a weird enough inclusion that I came back here to post about it and then convinced myself they'd actually said 28 Days Later and I'd misunderstood. I was just too lazy to wend my way back through the listing to reread.