13 Terrors: Favorite Horror Films
"Top 13" lists are common when it comes to rating horror movies, presumably because "13" is so much more ominous a number than "10", so I thought I might as well put together one of my own. Following is a list of my 13 favorite horror movies. The list is not necessarily intended as a guide to the best ever genre films or even those that might be dubbed must-see movies. Rather, these are films that for one reason or another I can't watch often enough. A couple of films--like the classic King Kong and the original Godzilla--are absent from the list simply because they are more accurately described as "adventure" or "science fiction" movies. Also, this list doesn't come with any kind of guarantee. These are my favorite horror movies as of 8/2/2013, but on 8/3/2013 I might compile a completely different set of rankings. Finally, you may notice that none of these films have the inexplicably popular "horror movie cheat," in which there's a sudden twist at the very end that either renders the entire movie you've just watched completely irrelevant or exists simply to facilitate a sequel (which may or may not ever come). Though a couple of the movies below may have endings that are somewhat ambiguous or open-ended, all of them are basically complete entities with a beginning, middle, and end. Many an otherwise competently made horror film has been ruined by a terrible non-ending that spoils the whole show. After all, as Aristotle says, "the end is all."
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