Good god, people, NIGHT OF THE HUNTER!
I am so disappointed in all of you in multiple threads today.
How many negative votes are we allowed?
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The Night of the Hunter was rated #34 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills ranking, and #90 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. In a 2007 listing of the 100 Most Beautiful Films, Cahiers du cinéma ranked The Night of the Hunter No. 2.[7] It is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. Powell was ranked #29 in the villains column in AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains.
It ranked as the 71st greatest film of all time on Empire Magazine's 500 greatest films list.[8]
In 1992, the United States Library of Congress deemed The Night of the Hunter to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected the film for preservation in its National Film Registry.
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If this masterpiece gets ignored and shlock like I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and straight science fiction like The Day the Earth Stood Still make it in the cut, a real flaw in methodology is revealed. It's just unbelievable!
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