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Help Choose the Top 10 Horror Films of All Time

In 2008, the AFI (American Film Institute) announced it's results for the Top 10 in 10, that is, the best 10 films in each of the 10 major genres of American film.  The genres?  They were Animation, Romantic Comedy, Western, Sports, Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Gangster, Courtroom Drama, and Epic.  See anything missing?  According to the AFI, Horror is not one of the 10 major genres.  Yup, courtroom drama trumps horror.  Hmm.

Well, it's time to fix that oversight.  They may have the members of the AFI, but we have the attendees of Dragon*Con, 30,000 strong, and we know horror.  So, we need your help.  We need you to vote.  Like the AFI, we're using a ballot of 100 films (chosen by Dr. Bob Blackwood and Dr. John L. Flynn, together known as The Film Doctors, and by Dragon*Con Film Festival director, Matthew M. Foster).  Unlike the AFI, we're allowing one write-in per ballot, because there's a lot of horror films out there.  

Voting is simple, if a little low tech.  Just download the Ballot here (it's in Word format), place "X"s by the 10 horror film you think are the best (or 9 and write-in one of your favorites), and then email the ballot back to us at top10horror@fosteronfilm.com.  Or, just send us a list of your 10 selections (please, only one write-in) typed into an email.  Either way, use the subject: Top 10 Horror Films.  The results will be announced on Monday, Sept 1 at 11:30am in the Regency Ballroom.

For those of you who just want to type in your choices in an email, here are the 100 films:
 

28 Days Later Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Alien (1979) American Werewolf in London, An Angel Heart Below Birds, The Braindead [a.k.a. Dead Alive] Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Bride of Frankenstein Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Candyman Carrie Cat People (1982) Cat People (1942) Cell, The Constantine Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Curse of Frankenstein Dawn of the Dead (1978) Day of the Triffids, The (1962) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Dracula (1931) Dracula (1979) Duel Entity, The Exorcist, The Eyes of Laura Mars, The Final Destination Fog, The (1980) Frankenstein (1931) Fright Night From Beyond (1986) From Dusk Till Dawn Ghosts of Mars Gojira (1954) Gremlins Halloween (1978) Haunting, The (1963) Hellbound: Hellraiser II Hellraiser Horror of Dracula, The (1958) Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959) House of Wax (1953) Hunger, The I Walked With a Zombie Interview With the Vampire Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Invisible Man, The (1933) Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Jaws Ju-On (2000) Keep, The Lair of the White Worm Diaboliques, Les Lost Boys, The Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) Masque of the Red Death, The Mummy, The (1999) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Night Stalker, The Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988) Ninth Gate, The Nosferatu (1922) Omen, The (1976) Pan’s Labyrinth Parasite Murders, The Phantom of the Opera, The (1925) Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945) Pit & The Pendulum, The (1961) Planet Terror Poltergeist Predator Prince of Darkness Prophecy, The (1995) Psycho (1960) Re-Animator Relic, The Repulsion Resident Evil Ring, The (2002) Rosemary’s Baby Shining, The (1980) Shutter (2004) Silent Hill Sixth Sense, The Sleepy Hollow (1999) Son of Frankenstein Spirits of the Dead Stepford Wives, The (1975) Theatre of Blood Thing from Another World, The (1951) Thing, The (1982) Tomb of Ligeia Underworld (2003) Uninvited, The (1944) Videodrome Wicker Man, The (1973) Wolf Wolf Man, The