Help! As you may know, Psychobabble has been running down a highly subjective list of 120 Essential Horror Movies since last April. Now that the end is in sight, a brick wall of epic proportions has suddenly shot up from the ground and stopped me dead in my tracks. You see, in my finite wisdom, I was only able to decide upon 119 movies!
So Psychobabble needs your help in deciding upon number 120! Leer over at the sidebar and take a gander at Psychobabble’s 120th Essential Horror Movie Poll and give me the assistance I so desperately need. Which one of these movies do you think deserves to join Jaws, Frankenstein, An American Werewolf in London, and the rest among this site’s canon of creeptacular classics?
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*You may notice that some of your personal favorites are missing from both the master list and the above selection of potential addendums. Although I fully support your zeal for Friday the 13th, Seven, and The Last House on the Left, I do not share it, which would make writing an argument in favor of their essentialness rather difficult for me. The movies on this poll are ones I personally believe to be worthy contenders. I just need your help in narrowing them down.
*Commenting “None of these are essential! You’re an asshole, Segretto! Friday the 13th Part XXIII: Jason Eats a Hoagy is better than all these movies combined!” is both hilarious and insightful, but it does nothing to solve the issue at hand. Let’s stay on topic here, folks!
*The Poll Closes on October 21st. I’ll post my commentary on the winner on October 24th. The final installment of Psychobabble’s 120 Essential Horror Movies goes up on the 26th.
I voted Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman for one reason alone. It was the first time a "shared universe" concept for the monsters was shared. A combination fight for monsters if you will. From it, sprang the films such as Aliens Vs.Predator and Freddy Vs. Jason...and may very well have been influencial in DC and Marvel Comics adopting a "shared Universe" in their comics tales. It should be tied with the film "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein". In this film, the entire concept of Werewolves hate Vampires was first adopted. It also set the stage for the victim of Lycanthropy doing as much to fight the forces of evil as possible while human in an attempt to "Balance the scales" and redeem themselves in a way. These groundbreaking concepts carried through in many a film later(Underworld for Vamps vs. WW, and nearly every other werewolf film until the Howling for Werewolf films).
ReplyDeletealways liked this one, I love how when they are in the town at the wine festival, Larry Talbot grabs that obnoxious singer just like I want to!! " cause life is short but death is long, abbeee bo abeee bee " yaaaaaah!!
DeleteThanks for voting and commenting, Scooby Snax. Now if that film wins, I won't even have to write an analysis!
ReplyDeleteHi Mike!! Gotta go with FMTWM as well.
ReplyDeleteCame on board about 2 months past. Just 57 signed-up? And that "Sit-On-My-Facebook (you said I did not have to censor myself) has what, a whole bunch?! Get the word out Mike!
ReplyDeleteNow what did I miss? "The List, The List"! Is it in a title/year only format?
I just discovered according to Wikipedia that "Revenge of the Creature" is Clint Eastwood's screen debut. But still was choice #2.
No worries, Baron. There may only be 57 subscribers, but traffic is actually very good.
ReplyDeleteThe list is in chronological order according to specific release date. I figured it was already subjective enough without ranking the movies according to my personal preferences.
So far it seems to be the fan favorite, Scatter. I was expecting bigger turn outs for 'Peeping Tom' and 'The Innocents'. Shows how much I know!
ReplyDeleteI was looking for a actual list. From the Emails, I counted about 60 titles?
ReplyDeleteCan you tell me how I can go to one spot and see all 120?
Thanks.
For now you can go here and access each decade's list: http://psychobabble100.wordpress.com/category/120-essential-horror-movies/
ReplyDeleteHowever, I will post a complete list once the final installment goes up toward the end of the month.