[Sculpt]

Tough choices, as more than usual, we have to deal with what can be included as a Horror film. I'm in with defining a Horror film with at least one genuine scene of horror, and of course, that's going to be subjective, but also go with some common sense about it.

For 1950's #21 and #22, I back:

Gojira/Godzilla, King of the Monsters - together as one film selection. They are both the same and different films, but both were very good, and had many scenes of suffocating horror in it. Obvious and solid selection to me.

The War of the Worlds (1953) - I found many many scenes, and the whole film, horrifying. It's sci-fi subject matter to the core, but the film was made with a bus load of horror elements. We've just got sneak attacked by intelligent monsters from outerspace that appear to intend to wipe us out completely, and we're getting beaten so bad, it looks like were going to lose. To me, this script/film is us getting wiped out by mass murder. In that way, it plays as sci-fi/horror, like The Thing & Body Snatchers.

I think these two films are much better films than any of the others in the Debate and lower sections, with the exception of two films I don't consider Horror films (mentioned below).


(These aren't 'Negative Votes', just my reasons for not considering these Horror films.)

I've changed my mind on "The Day the Earth Stood Still". I don't see it as a Horror film anymore, as I don't think the film intended to horrify the audience, and I don't think I felt any horror viewing it.

I also don't consider "Rear Window" a Horror film either. I'd say it's suspenseful, not horrifying.