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Oh, Didn’t I mention that to you, Wile E. Kayode?

Also, what it came down to behind the scenes was voting. Many other films were listed by my fellow co-writers but if they didnt’ receive the most overall votes, they were dropped off the list.

It was a fun piece for the holiday spirit and at the very least, especially with everyone leaving some pretty well informed comments, gets us all talking about a genre that many considered more or less dead just a few years ago.

Thanks for reading!

I’m not the biggest student of the horror genre, but I know what I like and I would only say half of this list would qualify on my own list. I like Candyman as much as the next guy, but that it made a top 20 horror list is absurd when you consider what’s been put out since 1989.

I have to push more love on The Mist. I almost bought the blu-ray today so I could see it in black and white and in color. I also second the props on Scream which was darn tooting good during its time, and spawned its own legion of copycats.

Funny enough I read this yesterday at http://norestforthewretched.blogspot.com/ So to say it’s exclusive is a misnomer. Look that word up. Yeah I’m in town and I’ve a hankering for a traitor’s blood and Yankee flesh.

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Loretta Gogetta

Then there’s this Blair Witch business. Sure, it was the first of the “camcorder horror” revolution, but Rec/Quarantine honed the craft to perfection.

Props, again, for the often overlooked White Noise, but for creep factor and style, was it better than, say, the considerably more unsettling Mothman Prophecies?

Then, I’m forced to turn back and give you guys (half of you, anyway) the respect for recognizing that The Mist was an EXCELLENT character study on social interaction and primal regression based on fear (c’mon, it really wasn’t about the monsters), while appreciating that it’s a proper thowback to 50′s pulp horror. Okay, points given…

…but taken away for – For the love of GOD – Scream and What Lies Beneath? Really? You omit Shaun of the Dead for being more satire than horror (true) but somehow SCREAM stays put? And…What Lies Beneath? As Ghost Stories go, What about The Devil’s Backbone? Hell, even The Skeleton Key or Stir of Echoes…

Then, there wasn’t a single John Carpenter movie on the list – which is inconceivable. The Thing? The Prince of Darkness? In the Mouth of Madness, maybe?

What about recent nominees? It’s like you guys skipped an entire era of well-crafted scares. The Exorcism of Emily Rose? The Descent? Hell, even – or perhaps, ESPECIALLY, Jeepers Creepers, which reinvigorated the modern horror mythic monster.

The list just seemed peculiar.

I get why, say, Ginger Snaps was on the list. There aren’t many quality werewolf flicks, and the original Ginger Snaps stands out for lycanthropthry like Fright Night and The Lost Boys did for Vampires before it. I can even see why 30 Days of Night made your list. With an excess of style and an honest intent to strip sexuality from vampires (while replacing our adulation with the fear of their savagery), I get it; There’s been a dearth of standout vamp flicks in twenty years.

Hell, I could go on and on pulling quality examples from my hat. What about High Tension? If you’re gonna go slasher and hate the modern remakes, High Tension was about as excellent as you get.

Even The Masters of Horror had episodes that could be considered ‘movies’ worth consideration. Ultimately, though, for all of my examples, it’s just disappointing when it feels like YOU guys didn’t consider as many quality possibilities or even offer argument for why some of your movies deserved the slot over others that any horror fan could IMMEDIATELY recall…