Damn this one is tough....Really hard to knock it down to 10.

Isn't Shadow of Chinatown a serial? Can we include these - I love The Phantom Creeps and thats 1939..

I hope this didn't die.:(

Yeah, it was just getting interesting. Keep posting so the thread stays at the top; like Gumtree!

I promise you, it hasn't died. My work schedule just got turned on its head with very little notice, and I've been sleeping through most of my days off. Keep watching. We'll be back on track shortly.

Keep us posted cheers

Keep up the good work, it's appreciated!

*bump*

Now that the Vampire tourney & BR IV are drawing to a close, I will be diverting my attention to completing some of these projects which had immense potential but tapered off at the beginning.

Contrary to Flayed's title of the thread though, we shall be starting all the way from 1897 when Le Manoir Du Diable was made, and regarded as the first ever horror film.




And, we shall expand our choices to picking the best films from every decade of horror, and stack them up together with plenty of Honorable Mentions. I am hoping we can chisel out 200 of the absolute finest examples of our genre and carve them in stone for the present fans, and for the generations to come.


Watch this thread for more details soon.

Does that mean your scrapping the previous votes?

Well, since the previous votes were sent through PMs to Flayed, I have to start from scratch. Not too bad, since he had only done the 20s and was in the process of going through the 30s.

Here is how we are going to go through this compilation...

First off, I humbly request all those 14 HDC members who sent in their lists of their chosen films from the 1920s/1930s to me. Please check your Sent boxes to see if you have a copy saved in there. If not (and you can't remember your choices), don't fret. We will do the 1920s/1930s again, this time by picking not 10 choices (10 is too low a number for a whole decade, not to mention the number of films which were made in the later decades).

We shall go with 20 choices from each decade, and then prune the list further until we have (at least) 10 representations from each decade to make it a solid 100.

And yes, there will be scope for argument for choices in this very thread. If you feel a particular film should be included (like neverending wanted to argue for The Phantom Carriage), you can put forth your case in the film's favor. If enough people are convinced with the argument, the film will be included.

Since the inception of horror films started from George Melies' shorts from the 1890s, they will be included in the master list of very-early horrors right from the 1890s through till 1919, a time span which saw some excellent short films such as Edison's Frankenstein, Le Manoir Du Diable, Bluebeard, etc. and some full length films as well - Der Golem, The Student of Prague, etc. We shall round off our final choices from the other decades with examples of these very-early horror cinema as Special Mentions. Of course, they will be bundled with the choices from the 1920s as well.

Stay tuned for the first Master List - from the 1890s through 1929.

One more point - If you haven't seen a particular film but have heard of it and realise it's importance in the genre, you can research on it and it's significance and include it in your list. It is not necessary for you to have seen a film to include it as your choice.

We start off soon.