Rotten Tomatoes listed their Top 50 Horror Movies. Here's how they gathered the list:
And well, since "Everybody loves lists!" let's take a look, shall we?
"Using a weighted formula combining a movie's Tomatometer with the number of reviews it has accumulated, we've assembled a list of the top 50 best-reviewed horror films deemed worthy of your late-night viewing, popcorn-consuming time. While classics from legends like Hitchcock, Polanski, and Romero have found homes in the top 20, this list isn't solely about eye-pecking birds and sluggish zombies. The list spans cinematic history to showcase everything from early expressionist thrillers to modern slashers and all the good, gory stuff in-between."
And well, since "Everybody loves lists!" let's take a look, shall we?
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
10. Repulsion
11. The Night of the Hunter
12. Freaks
13. Silence of the Lambs
14. Frankenstein
15. Jaws
16. Nosferatu (1922)
17. Night of the Living Dead
18. The Birds
19. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
20. Eyes Without A Face
21. Dawn of the Dead
22. The Descent
23. Don't Look Now
24. Ginger Snaps
25. Dracula
26. The Blair Witch Project
27. Slither
28. Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979)
29. The Sixth Sense
30. Cat People
31. Misery
32. Halloween
33. The Wicker Man
34. Near Dark
35. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin Diary
36. Nightmare on Elm Street
37. Peeping Tom
38. Shadow of the Vampire
39. House of Wax
40. Ringu
41. Fright Night
42. 3 Extremes
43. The Exorcist
44. Eraserhead
45. Carrie
46. A Tale of 2 Sisters
47. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
48. The Dead Zone
49. Dead of Night
50. The Innocents
Lists mainly exist for us to bitch about them right? If so, phew; cuz this list is effed up. Y'all know I love Shaun of the Dead, but it's #3? While The Exorcist places a fully FORTY places behind it? And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Halloween at #32, while Ginger Snaps (another film I like, but come on) is at #24? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre barely even making the top 50? And King Kong is one of the greatest films ever made, but is it really horror?
Y'all need to sort this out for me in the comments, because my mind has short-circuited. Thanks be to Cthulhu that we've got the 31 Flicks That Gave You The Willies list coming up in a few days at Shoot The Projectionist; I know that'll most assuredly wipe my palette clean of all this wrongness.
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7 comments:
and Don't Look Now wasn't on it at all....
As lists go I thought it at least represented most of the right films, but yeah some of their places were fucked up. That Texas Chainsaw Massacre one is particularly absurd.
That list is way messed up. There is no way The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are near the bottom of a Horror Film Top 50.
I've been pretty "meh" about The Exorcist for several years now. I guess I expect more from ultimate evil than peeing on a rug and masturbating with a crucifix. I mean, who hasn't, right?
For a while, I thought it was my flagrant athiesm that kept me from being wigged out by The Exorcist -- in fact, I was kind of self-righteous about it (which is super attractive, p.s.). Then, I saw Frailty and for whatever reason that movie tapped into my freak-the-fuck-out center. I spent the night after watching it in horror, waiting for Bill Paxton to knock on my door and call me out as a demon.
i am rarely the supportive voice in any situation but I think you are being too hard on this list. So the rankings are odd, but this is a pretty good list and these things are usually totally off. i am elated that none of the Saw or Rob Zombie movies are on this list.
I agree the rankings seemed a little mixed up. I also agree with Rural Juror about Don't Look Now, the only movie that made me scream in a theater (the ending was almost identical to the worst nightmare I had when I was little.)I was happy to see The Innocents made the list. It's right behind DLN in terms of creepiness!
--Walter, Minnesota
Don't Look Now is in 23rd place, guys.
And yeah, TCM and stuff should have placed much higher, and I don't think The Shining is even on the list, which is simply insane, but it's easily explainable. Older films, even classics, tend not to have as many reviews up on the internet, so there were less reviews posted. Because RT's point system for these kind of things works not just on the percentage score for the film but also how many reviews it has, the older movies with less reviews were placing lower.
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