Entertainment Weekly released their Top 20 Horror Films of the Last 20 Years today and while I am shocked with some of the choices it's good to see a mainstream rag show attention to the genre we all love. With any list there's always going to be hit and misses and while I back some of their choices 100% I am flat out appalled at others....

Follow up:

When making a list like these it always falls back onto the writer of the story. In this particular case it's Owen Gleiberman. Owen compiles his favorite list and gets to use the backing of EW for a platform. Not a bad gig except when you have sites like these that love to dissect these very lists. :-)

Keep in mind these are his top favorite horror movies that were released in the last 20 years. Some of these you may have not seen yet but regardless of how you feel about this list you owe it to yourself to watch these. It's not a terrible list by any means and it certainly takes some stones to produce one of these. You know going in your going to make some people smile with agreement and others question whether you deserve to be breathing air.


Here is the list...

#1 Audition(1999)
#2 The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
#3 The Blair Witch Project(1999)
#4 Scream(1996)
#5 28 Weeks Later(2007)
#6 What Lies Beneath(2000)
#7 The Sixth Sense(1999)
#8 Drag Me to Hell(2009)
#9 Alien 3(1992)
#10 Ringu(1998)
#11 Planet Terror(2007)
#12 From Hell(2001)
#13 Misery(1990)
#14 Hostel 2(2007)
#15 Shaun of the Dead(2004)
#16 The Descent(2005)
#17 The Kingdom(1994)
#18 Event Horizon(1997)
#19 Darkman(1990)
#20 Dead-Alive(1992)

While I'm excited to see films like Drag me to Hell, Planet Teror, Misery, Shaun of the Dead, The Decent and Scream make the cut (regardless of what you think about Scream it changed the face of horror). I am perplexed by Owne's inclusion of Darkman, From Hell and What Lies Beneath? All are not bad movies by any means but the last 20 years? What Lies Beneath while not a terrible movie would have been nothing without the big name actors involved, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer.

I'm not sure I classify Silence of the Lambs as horror. Either way I will give it to them for listing it. It's a great film horror or not. The Blair Witch Project while a clever idea and a genius marketing campaign if you knew the film footage wasn't real (and there are some of you that didn't) it's a one and done movie at best. And Peter Jackson's Dead-Alive? REALLY! I am shocked you have even seen this film Owen let alone included it. Dead-Alive didn't invent the splatter comedy genre. Movies like Evil Dead 2 and Re-Animator not only came before Dead-Alive they perfected the formula. Again I give them a nod for including it but not sure it should have been on the list personally.

Again these are tough to come up with and fun to critique so lets here your thoughts, what do you like about this list and what just pisses you off.