Jaws tops another travesty of a list
Filed under: Horror, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Fandom, Steven Spielberg
Is Jaws really a horror film? Obviously, Hollywood.com thinks so – they've placed Steven Spielberg's classic at the top of their just-in-time-for-Halloween list of the Top 25 Grossing Horror films of all time. Other head-scratching entries in the top ten include The Mummy Returns (why was the crappy sequel so much more sucessful than the crappy remake that spawned it?) and Robert Zemeckis' What Lies Beneath, which, like the Spielberg film, just strikes me as more of a suspense thriller than out-and-out horror. Here's the list in full. What pisses you off? 
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10-30-2005 @ 2:22PM
Matt B. said...
Guys...it's a highest grossing horror films of all time. Not the BEST.
It makes perfect sense for all those movies to be there.
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10-30-2005 @ 2:28PM
dave said...
As far as I'm concerned, here are 20 movies that are actually scary (and not necessarily top-grossing films). In no particular order, other than that with which I thought of them:
Village of the Damned
Alice Sweet Alice
The Brood
The Tenant
The Vanishing
Diabolique
Nosferatu (Tame by today's standards, but that's one heck of a Dracula costume)
The Wicker Man
It's Alive!
House on Haunted Hill
Suspiria
The Haunting
Freaks
Audition
The Shining
The Grudge (a youngster, yes, but good and scary. Better than Jo-on)
The Changeling
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist (cliche by now, but it scared the piss out of me when I was young)
Psycho (If you're lucky to see this without knowing the ending, it'll put the fear of god into you)
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10-30-2005 @ 3:02PM
Indie MP3 said...
it may well be biggest grossing horror movies...but would you really consider the Mummy and Mummy Returns as horror? I actually thought Blair Witch would have broken into the Top 10 however
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10-30-2005 @ 5:03PM
Scott Weinberg said...
If VAN HELSING is a horror movie then I'm a lesbian ballerina named Sally.
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10-30-2005 @ 5:57PM
Sam said...
Anyone see "High Intensity?"
Man...
oui. That's all I gotta say about that one. Check it out.
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10-31-2005 @ 9:52PM
Corey Atad said...
Just about every film on this list shouldn't be ere. Most are simply Thrillers.
Here's a list of what shouldn't be on here:
Jaws
The Sixth Sense
The Mummy Returns
Jaws 2 (Just because it was a bad movie)
Alien (I never looked at it as a horror, more a dark suspense thriller)
The Mummy
What Lies Beneath (for reasons mentioned above)
Aliens (It's really just a gory action flick)
Next up. That Horror/Comedy list. What the hell how do some of these films even come close to qualifying as anything near horror?:
Ghostbusters
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Young Frankenstein
Scary Movie (it's really not supposed to be scary. that was the joke jackasses!)
Ghostbusters II
Scream 3 (I get it. It was their idea of a joke. It as so bad it was funny. Bad joke guys.)
I hate these lists. They are never compiled properly.
AFI does the worst jobs. Not for what the include, but for what they leave out. Like why wasn't Lt. Stansfield from The Professional even on the top Villians list? I would have put him as #1 just because he scared the sh*t out of me for days after, but to completely leave him out. Now that just proves how useless AFI is.
Anyway. Sorry for the long post.
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10-31-2005 @ 12:14PM
The Jeremy said...
I'd chop (pun intended) off the following from the list because I don't think they are horror at all:
*The Sixth Sense
*The Mummy Returns
*The Mummy
*What Lies Beneath
*Seven
*Van Helsing
*The Others
Thrillers should not be considered horror even if they contain *fantastic* and *escapist* elements. Nor should popcorn movies. And anything since the late 70s that wasn't rated R should not count as "horror".
And if you look at the studio most represented by films on this list that should not be there, one might concluded that Universal gave some extra cash to AFI to mislabel a bunch of their flicks to make it to this list.
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