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."
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Strega - Aug 11, 2009 10:48:33 am PDT #3530 of 30000
Gris - Aug 11, 2009 10:51:31 am PDT #3531 of 30000
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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.
Atropa - Aug 11, 2009 10:52:41 am PDT #3532 of 30000
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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?
Polter-Cow - Aug 11, 2009 10:54:11 am PDT #3533 of 30000
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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.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2009 11:02:48 am PDT #3534 of 30000
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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.
Atropa - Aug 11, 2009 11:39:37 am PDT #3535 of 30000
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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.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2009 11:39:59 am PDT #3536 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Atropa - Aug 11, 2009 11:42:04 am PDT #3537 of 30000
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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.
Yeah, I blinked and re-read, because I couldn't figure out why they'd pick 28 Weeks Later, not 28 Days Later.
Huh. I should really watch that copy of Midnight Meat Train we've had from Netflix since before the book tour started.
Atropa - Aug 11, 2009 11:43:32 am PDT #3538 of 30000
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Other horror movies of the past 20 years they should have picked, that I just remembered:
Gingersnaps. May. Teeth. All far better movies than some of the ones EW listed.
Polter-Cow - Aug 11, 2009 11:48:17 am PDT #3539 of 30000
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I did like Ginger Snaps but haven't seen the other two.
I was amused and pleased to see Planet Terror on the list, though.