Cabin in the Woods,

A YouTube I once saw: there's this kid, and he's watching a Sesame Street parody of "The 39 Steps", and it's a black-and-white short that's just about Elmo climbing 39 stairs and counting them and then falling down them. The kid is terrified and wailing. It's clear he's seen it before and Mom is calming him down about…

it's a modern spin on the zombie apocalypse,

Right. That was a short game and would have been easy to adapt for feature-length film, it's the best in the series, it has what some people consider the best story ever found in the medium, and critics could have wallowed in its Lynch-lite doppelganger fetishism all night long. Why not go for it?

That reminded me a lot of the moment in a lot of horror movies in the last 15 years where someone explains "the infection began to spread… people began attacking each other" and I'm like "bye"

Does it require a "theory"? The explanation is the movie itself. What happened to her was…what happened in the movie.

Oogieloves was truly a little unsettling to me, or at least the part of it I saw. It was like that feeling you get when someone nearby you just starts throwing up like crazy in public without warning.

You really flipped the script! Now popular things is good and unpopular things is bad! Gaw-lee! You're totally not hip at all! A real lame ass!

It was a movie for grown-ups. Maybe that's good, maybe it isn't.

Which bites. Those movies aren't scary and no one went to them wanting to be scared, especially Cabin, which was for pro-am Wikipedia editors and barely qualifies as a finished movie in my opinion.

The Grudge demonstrates the sin of trying way too hard.

That was a good jump scare at the beginning of The Ring. I rarely remember those, but for some reason, it not only surprised me but slightly reminded me of that smash cut to Jack Nicholson frozen solid in The Shining. I should go back and see if there's a reason for that I can pinpoint that's beyond the obvious.

It's not bad. It's the best thing Snyder ever made, except if you see his preferred cut of it, which suggests he, like George Lucas, has no idea which of his own ideas are any good.

I don't think this list needed more zombie movies.

I watched the original ending, and since it doesn't use subliminal hypnosis to erase the audience's memory of the monster effects, it was only a slight improvement to me.

There's some mutilated corpses in House of 1,000 Corpses

I'd be into [REC] if it weren't *sad trombone* more zombies. So lazy. It had been recommended to me without comment, so when those people started biting everyone I went to get a soda. I couldn't imagine just how much more sick of that quasi-Romero crap I would get in the years to follow. It even sand-bagged Pontypool,…

And even worse in the context of what was coming over to America from other places, including some of the movies on this list.

If you're a parent, it might. Then again, as some have already said, you may find it cathartic.

In the director's cut, you know that part where they toss out a barrel of gas and shoot it? Imagine that happening two more times with diminishing returns, that's the director's cut in a nutshell. I should have expected it, even though it's maybe the only one of Snyder's movies I genuinely like (I grew up on the…