Ant Timpson { Filmhead }

TOP 50 HORROR FILMS OF THE DECADE

I really hate making movie lists.

So this is my second of twenty Top of the Decade lists. Ha ha. I'm not Roger Ebert and my opinion is as good as your butchers but I decided to make it official by photoshopping a graphic announcing that this is my Top 50 list! Otherwise I would just delete it and pretend it never existed. Making it official means I now have to stand behind it and take the abuse. Bring it on.

For me, making a Top Horror list is like attempting to put live cockroaches into a line. It's constantly in a state of flux and the only way to finish it, is to glue them down and squash them into place.

This is what I did with the films below.

Many were wriggling towards pole positions but they never made it. Some of the films in the top 20 weren't even in my top 100 when I first saw them. Films have a way of playing with memory and nestling in deep recesses of the mind. You're not sure just exactly why some movies do this and others don't.

It's best not to think about it as the answers may scare you.

So love them or hate them, here are my Top 50.

1. The Mist (#1 B&W version)
2. The Descent
3. Inside aka L'Interieur
4. Jeepers Creepers 2
5. Session 9
6. The Others
7. [REC]
8. Bug
9. Kairo
10. Pop Skull
11. Uzumaki
12. The Happening *
13. Spider
14. Hypnosis
15. Wrong Turn
16. Ils aka THEM
17. Let the Right One In
18. Mother of Tears *
19. Dumplings
20. Final Destination 2
21. The Orphanage
22. House of the Devil
23. My Little Eye
24. Calvaire
25. Dog Soldiers
26. One Missed Call (Miike)
27. Open Water
28. Haute Tension
29. Saw
30. Frailty
31. Wolf Creek
32. Grace
33. Malefique
34. Suicide Circle
35. Sheitan
36. Slither
37. Splinter
38. Pontypool
39. Identity
40. Touristas
41. Paranormal Activity
42. The Orphan *
43. The Loved Ones
44. The Signal
45. The Ruins
46. Bhoot
47. Drag Me To Hell
48. Shaun of the Dead
49. The Lost
50. Severance

* Phenomenal Trash

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