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Oh my gosh, yes please, Cronos! A unique film in so many respects.
At this point, my "degree" of pleading for backings is this:
#1 Ringu, for its importance in horror history, and the onslaught of J-horror, and American remakes that it inspired. Also a darn good movie, even though we're all bored of it now.
#2 Cronos, for its sheer uniqueness, quality -- dare I say, flawlessness -- and everything Straker said. An amazing debut (I didn't know it was his first) by one of today's premier horror directors.
#3 Audition, for bringing back the shock value previously only found in exploitation films, yet making it an essential part of great storytelling, thus not exploitative at all. Whether you like this kind of thing or not, Miike left an impact on horror with this one, and is highly influential. Also, it should already be in there because of the number of original votes it received.
I really can't believe that all three movies are not in the final 20. Since only one can make it, I won't make a plea for Natural Born Killers, even though I think it's a perfect representation of how the 90s was not a horror decade -- the genre's theatrics and "simplicity" -- were completely out of fashion, just like new wave and hair metal were replaced by alternative rock. Horror was either satired (Scream) or embedded in other genres, like crime mysteries (Se7en, Silence of the Lambs), drama (Sixth Sense) and comedy (Army of Darkness, the Frighteners). Natural Born Killers is a lot of things, most notably a social commentary, while also being an effective horror movie, especially the scene with the Indian hallucination ritual.
If none of the above get a vote, I would back Sleepy Hollow, especially since Burton is not yet represented in the history. (Beetlejuice was his best shot.) I completely forgot about this movie when doing my rankings, but I remember liking it a lot when I saw it. The fact that i forgot about it, and have never rewatched it, is perhaps a notch against it though.
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