{"id":300,"date":"2015-10-26T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/10\/26\/hitfix-hunts-for-the-top-100-horror-movies\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:43:00","slug":"hitfix-hunts-for-the-top-100-horror-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/10\/26\/hitfix-hunts-for-the-top-100-horror-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"HitFix hunts for the top 100 horror movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/news\/horror-poll\/2015\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-gs6x-Ha_Oc8\/Vi6QLpOdUtI\/AAAAAAAAB-Y\/mBOTcxxU-_E\/s400\/shininghall.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>What is the greatest horror film of all time? Is that too broad? How about a top 10 or even a top 50? With enough aggregated stats and expert opinion, you can probably make a killer list of the best in the genre. The editors at HitFix have done just that, polling horror directors, writers, critics, scholars, and superfans to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/news\/horror-poll\/2015\">a ranked list of the 100 greatest horror movies ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The upper end of the list is stacked and difficult to argue against: <i>The Exorcist<\/i> takes the top spot, followed by <i>The Shining<\/i>, <i>Rosemary&#8217;s Baby<\/i>, <i>Alien<\/i>, and the usual bedfellows. Once you get further down it gets a little odd, as these lists tend to, with rule-skirting oddities like <i>Sal\u00f2, or the 120 Days of Sodom<\/i> showing up or the American remake of <i>The Ring<\/i> ranking higher than the Japanese original. Part of this might be the fault of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/news\/horror-poll\/2015\/methodology\">the odd methodology<\/a>, which weights the number of mentions over their relative ranking.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a solid list, though, and its greatest asset might be its interviews with film figures about their favorite horror movies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/news\/horror-poll\/2015\/movie\/7310-bride-of-frankenstein\/#interview\">Clive Barker apparently loves <i>Bride of Frankenstein<\/i><\/a>, and we&#8217;re better hearing him gush about it than knowing that it&#8217;s #37 on the list.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the greatest horror film of all time? Is that too broad? How about a top 10 or even a top 50? With enough aggregated stats and expert opinion, you can probably make a killer list of the best in the genre. The editors at HitFix have done just that, polling horror directors, writers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,173,212],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}