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Three Romero films in Total Film's Top 50 Horror
11th Oct 05
 Well, it seems that George Romero really is the King of Horror with three of his films (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Martin) in their recent Top 50 Horror film feature published this month.
No other director secured three films on the list, although five other directors came close with two films each - John Carpenter (The Thing and Halloweed), David Cronenberg (Shivers and Dead Ringers - why no Videodrome we don't know!), Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream), Dario Argento (Suspiria and Inferno) and Robert Wise (The Haunting and Curse of the Cat People - although technically Cat People was co-driected with Gunther von Fritsch).
In the battle of the decades (a constant source of argument between Jim and Zomblee with Jim fighting the corner for the 80s and Zomblee batling on behalf of the 70s), the 70s and 80s were the joint winners with 13 films each. Eleven films from the 60s made the list, with six films from the 90s and only a poor two films (Switchblade Romance and The Descent) making an appearance for the 21st century.
See below for the full list, or visit Total Film for more info.
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Total Film Top 50 Horror Films
1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Tobe Hooper
2. Halloween (1978) John Carpenter
3. Suspiria (1977) Dario Argento
4. Dawn of the Dead (1978) George Romero
5. The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
6. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
7. The Wicker Man (1973) Robin Hardy
8. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Roman Polanski
9. Don’t Look Now (1973) Nicholas Roeg
10. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Ruggero Deodato
11. The Thing (1982) John Carpenter
12. Carrie (1976) Brian De Palma
13. The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin
14. The Blair Witch Project (1999) Myrick and Sanchez
15. Witchfinder General (1968) Michael Reeves
16. The Haunting (1963) Robert Wise
17. The Evil Dead (1981) Sam Raimi
18. Peeping Tom (1960) Michael Powell
19. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
20. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale
21. Night of the Living Dead (1968) George Romero
22. Curse of the Cat People (1944) Robert Wise
23. Switchblade Romance (2003) Alexandre Aja
24. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Wes Craven
25. An American Werewolf in London (1981) John Landis
26. Night of the Demon (1957) Jacques Tourneur
27. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) John McNaughton
28. Bay of Blood (1971) Mario Bava
29. Audition (1999) Takashi Miike
30. Shivers (1975) David Cronenberg
31. The Innocents (1961) Jack Clayton
32. The Devil Rides Out (1968) Terence Fisher
33. Les Diaboliques (1955) Henri-Georges Clouzot
34. Dead Ringers (1988) David Cronenberg
35. Inferno (1980) Dario Argento
36. Martin (1977) George Romero
37. The Howling (1981) Joe Dante
38. Vampyr (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer
39. Candyman (1992) Bernard Rose
40. The Plague of the Zombies (1966) John Gilling
41. Scream (1996) Wes Craven
42. Targets (1968) Peter Bogdanovich
43. The Sect (1991) Michele Soavi
44. The Descent (2005) Neil Marshall
45. Braindead (1992) Peter Jackson
46. Hour of the Wolf (1968) Ingmar Bergman
47. Eraserhead (1977) David Lynch
48. Nekromantik (1987) Jorg Buttgereit
49. The Beyond (1981) Lucio Fulci
50. Hellraiser (1987) Clive Barker
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