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Originally Posted by Sculpt
I've enjoyed reading your incite in the era, getting some representation of what we might call 'a minor sub-genre', and a nod towards Bava's. Actually, it would be cool to include your write-up below the Honorable Mentions.
My thinking on having diversity, and having a representative film by a director of many films, or rep of a country, or being concerned with having too many films with an actor or actors is: I personally think it's a much higher priority to pick the best films. The single film is king.
If you've ever worked on a film/video/play/recording/etc, you get an appreciation for the 'life of their own' these films take. It comes from the input of so many different people, from personal, accidental & metaphysical means. What actor is in it, the director, country, era elements are secondary -- something to consider -- but secondary. That's just my long considered opinion. I think if a film is good enough, it will earn a spot on it's own merit.
Having said that, I'm OK with the original outcome we came to, and V presented. Which was:
Day of the Triffids (1962)
The Raven (1963)
Onibaba (1964)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Blood Feast (1963)
As I stated, I think the best films deserve to get in. I think Day of Triffids and The Raven are the best, & too big to leave out.
I don't have an objection to replacing Blood Feast (or Mr Sar/Sho/Oni) if you guys really think Black Sunday is a straight-up better film.
Finally, if we're still in discussion, I actually agree with Metternich, where I think Village of the Damned (1960) is a classic. I'd be in favor of replacing Blood Feast with Village. But again, I'm OK with the list of 6 we have.
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Thanks for the nice compliments about my comments, Sculpt. We're definitely on different sides of the coin on this topic though. We're not making a movie, we're making a list. If I were teaching a class on the history of rock music, and I only had time to go into detail about 10 albums, and I thought 5 of the best albums were by the Beatles so I spend half the semester talking about the Beatles... well that wouldn't be a very good class IMO.
We have a list here at HDC for the top 100 most disturbing and gorrific films. If half that list were from the torture subgenre because those truly were the most disturbing, that wouldn't be a very good list IMO. Instead, the list contains plenty of films that aren't terribly disturbing, but a wide variety of styles and approaches are represented at varying degrees of disturbing. It's a good list.
If I were a visitor who stumbled upon this HDC list called 100 Years of Horror, I would hope that list would give me a solid, thorough overview of all the high points and important points that occurred over the century. That's just me though. Maybe not everyone would expect that. For the most part I think we're doing a decent job of that, but there are a few glaring omissions, and some imbalance, and not just in the 60s.
At any rate, I love V's idea, and I think that solves the problem.
Oh yeah, and Black Sunday is an infinitely better movie than Blood Feast. That's not why I backed Blood Feast.