In response to the lively and passionate debate that's arisen as a result of my last blogosphere-rippling post, I thought it might be a good idea to list all the other films which were in consideration, yet didn't make the final list of fifty. So here, for your edification, and to answer a lot of the "Hey, what about _______??!" comments, are all the other flicks that received votes from our venerable panel of blowhards:
The ones that almost squeaked through, but not quite:
- Dagon
- Peeping Tom
- Cat People (1942)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 & 1978--the original came out ahead, for those keeping score)
- The Ring
- Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (1932)
- Sisters
- Horror of Dracula (highest-ranking Hammer)
- 2000 Maniacs
- Donnie Darko
- Hellraiser
- The Blood-Spattered Bride
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Don't Look Now
- Island of Lost Souls
Yet more also-rans:
- Tenebrae
- Gojira
- Alice, Sweet Alice
- The Devil's Nightmare
- The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Women
- The Cave of Demons
- The Cat and the Canary
- The Uninvited (1944)
- The Old Dark House
- Re-Animator
- Vampire Circus
- Creepshow
- The Curse of Frankenstein
- Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers
- Scream
- Vampyres
- Eyes Without a Face
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Deliverance
- Manhunter
- Dead Alive
- Night of the Werewolf
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes
- The Wicker Man (1973)
- Cloverfield
- Toby Dammit
- The Birds
- Ginger Snaps
- Bloodsucking Freaks
- Uzumaki
- Plague of the Zombies
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- Vampyr
- M
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Repulsion
- This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
- The Howling
- Carnival of Souls
- Lost Highway
- Burnt Offerings
- Rabid
- Werewolf of London
- The Omen
- Freaks
- The Lost Boys
- The Descent
And finally, the lonely little films that got only one point, by virtue of being the bottom choice on a single list:
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- The Funhouse
- Vampire Lovers
- Ringu
- Shocker
- Sleepless
- Urotsukidoji
- Night of the Hunter
- I Walked with a Zombie
There you have it, list completists! You see, we're not as "populist" as we were originally accused of being. Old and crotchety, perhaps, but certainly not populist!