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http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/S/scary/results_10-1_1.html
Anyone catch this?
I always find Channel 4's "100 Greatest...." efforts entertaining, although they're vulnerable to all sorts of criticism.
Whole franchises that might have merited two or more entries get just the one, and it's always the first film in a series, even where sequels might have been scarier (Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, the Hannibal Lector films)
Plus, if you're allowed remakes in some cases (Dracula movies), why not others? Verbinski's "Ring" doesn't figure, but the inferior original does.
As ever it's "voted for by you, the public", but it seems certain that voters were asked to choose from a pre-determined short-list, a list that may have comprised just the final 100, meaning we're asked simply to put them in order.
How else could "Train Pulling into a Station (1895)" have weighed in at 100? Barely anyone would have heard of it, but the panel responsible for the shortlist have clearly decided to shoe-horn in entries from the dawn of cinema, reflecting things that people found scary more than a century ago as well as up-to-the-minute shockers.
I was pleased to see cheesy TV classics like The Tripods and Day of the Triffids make the list, and with hindsight The Shining was an obvious no.1, even if I didn't see it coming during the countdown. In fact I was expecting "The Sixth Sense" to be at the top. Personally I didn't like the film and I think that Shyamalan is over-rated, but I know so many people that speak highly of it, its absence from the list seems to me an oversight.
Anyone catch this?
I always find Channel 4's "100 Greatest...." efforts entertaining, although they're vulnerable to all sorts of criticism.
Whole franchises that might have merited two or more entries get just the one, and it's always the first film in a series, even where sequels might have been scarier (Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, the Hannibal Lector films)
Plus, if you're allowed remakes in some cases (Dracula movies), why not others? Verbinski's "Ring" doesn't figure, but the inferior original does.
As ever it's "voted for by you, the public", but it seems certain that voters were asked to choose from a pre-determined short-list, a list that may have comprised just the final 100, meaning we're asked simply to put them in order.
How else could "Train Pulling into a Station (1895)" have weighed in at 100? Barely anyone would have heard of it, but the panel responsible for the shortlist have clearly decided to shoe-horn in entries from the dawn of cinema, reflecting things that people found scary more than a century ago as well as up-to-the-minute shockers.
I was pleased to see cheesy TV classics like The Tripods and Day of the Triffids make the list, and with hindsight The Shining was an obvious no.1, even if I didn't see it coming during the countdown. In fact I was expecting "The Sixth Sense" to be at the top. Personally I didn't like the film and I think that Shyamalan is over-rated, but I know so many people that speak highly of it, its absence from the list seems to me an oversight.