Another List? But This One’s the Real Stuff, the Absolutely Best 100 Scary Movies
Let’s give the piece its exact title, “The 100 best horror films,” subtitled “The best horror films and movies of all time, voted for by over 100 experts including Simon Pegg, Stephen King and Alice Cooper, and Time Out writers.” The byline (that is to say, the TIME OUT writers themselves) is to Tom Huddleston, Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Nigel Floyd, Alim Kheraj, and Phil de Semlyen and it was posted Friday April 13 2018 on the British site TIMEOUT.COM. So how can you go wrong? And, credit due, it comes to us courtesy of C.M. Saunders as mentioned in an interesting review on his blog of the Spanish film [REC] — one of the relatively few “found footage” films that really works — for [image error]which one can press here.
But to the main event, quoting the “Time Out writers” (as well, credit due, appropriating their title illustration): For years, horror, unlike romance, action and science fiction, has been mistreated and subjected to vicious critical attacks. For some, horror films are focused purely on provoking a reaction with little thought for ‘higher’ aspirations. For others, they’re just a bit of fun.
Thankfully, it looks like the horror genre is finally getting the recognition it deserves, with recent releases getting Oscar buzz and proving to be box office hits. To celebrate this often overlooked and thrilling genre, we approached horror experts, writers, directors and actors to help us chose the 100 best horror films.
Yes, I disagree with some, although if it is an endorsement of sorts I’ve seen or own well over half of these. And everyone reading this will no doubt have their doubts about others, and possibly even criteria used to decide which is best. And of course some favorites will fail to be there — we all have our tastes, yes? But for me, also, part of the value of lists like these is finding the films I haven’t seen, but from the descriptions I might well want to.
So, giving a press here, shall we explore together?
