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Originally Posted by Straker
I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at in terms of the list.... Is this a selection of horror movies that you (sculpt) pulled together or the most popular horror movies according to RT?
In terms of just taking the list at face value all I can really say is each to their own..... If I had to put that selection of movies in some sort of order it would look very different, if I had to do a top 50 horror movies list, half the movies would be gone.
Seven isn't even a horror movie is it? :confused:
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I was curious how the vast number of RT members rated the best known horror movies. That's the Audience Rating, as opposed to their Critics Rating. I wanted to see if the Audience Rating made sense, was pretty close to what I might rate my best movies.
I looked at a bunch of 'best horror movies of all-time' lists, and then went to RT and acquired the Audience percentage, and listed the movies in percentage order. I'm sure I've missed some. Horror movies not generally considered good by general movie standards I didn't seek out (like Halloween 3).
As I mentioned in my original post, I tried to be more inclusive for the horror genre, so people could exclude movies they don't consider horror, rather than have people say, 'why didn't you include such-&-such!!!!'.
It's a good question: are these horror movies? Shawn of the Dead, Pan's Labyrinth, Zombieland, Jaws, The Invisible Man, Alien, Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, etc?
As far as Se7en goes... how can one say Psycho is a horror film, but Se7en isn't? (If you think this, I really would find your reasoning interesting to read.) They both deal with a crazy serial killer. Both are filled with what I would call horror.
And what if a movie is mainly a comedy, but just uses the horror genre as a setting? Are these horror movies? Shawn of the Dead, Zombieland, Evil Dead 2, Young Frankenstein, Dawn of the Dead, etc? I don't consider Young Frankenstein a horror movie, but I do Dawn. But all the rest are scattered between the two poles. I don't know if one can draw a line except by one's subjective opinion. How would you draw the line?