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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2656097" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>I'm not a particular fan of horror so maybe that explains why I've never even HEARD of half the movies on that list, but the rankings of the ones I do recognize is clearly more than just a little questionable.  The reason it seems like such a bad list is likely due to who created it - the staff at the website.  There's no indicaiton how they compiled the list or determined ranking which to me suggests they just made it up without much of any "rules" at all.  It would be one thing to do polling or at least get voting from a large, interested body of horror fans, but to just set a dozen people down and have them declare a 50-best isn't going to produce a terribly reliable or meaningful listing.  It is after all a highly subjective thing to declare what's the 50 best movies for a given genre.  The way for those subjective opinions to be more relevant is to collate a LOT more opinions.</p></blockquote><p></p>