For real. This show is like that quarterback whose grades get to slide because he's the only hope his tiny town has of going All-State. I'm tired of letting it pass.

Ordinarily, I would be inclined to agree with this sentiment — except that I quit "The Walking Dead" weeks ago, for exactly the reasons Meredith has outlined. It's not that I wanted more zombies. I was just exhausted with the humans.

I think the only thing that kept it off this list is that the terror seems completely intentional. It's shot and edited just like a horror film, right down to the jump scares and the weird stalker's-eye-view.

So. Very. True. While I adored "NIMH," the spider sequence in the Great Owl's nest always stuck with me. Ditto the rabbit-on-rabbit violence of "Watership Down." And that drug movie, whose title I never remembered. I think we used to watch some of these in the final week of elementary school, sitting in dark…

She was a great Joan Jett — twitchy and angry and still tough. Ditto "Panic Room" — she rides out that seizure like a boss. Give her some time, and she'll win a role that does for her what "Silence of the Lambs" did for Jodie Foster. Until that role, some people still remembered her as the kid from "Candleshoe."

Oh, goodness, no. I still crack open the Oresteia when I feel like something bloody. I still yell at the screen when Piper Laurie gets her Bible wrong in "Carrie" (because Augustine translated Genesis incorrectly). I still went on a "Foucault thought of this decades ago" rant during a class on systems theory.

Eeek! I was too impassioned to spell "Aeschylus" correctly. My apologies, literary canon.

Mwahahahahaha.

Haters hate good shit because they don't have it.

Presumably, it's about a nonexistent decoy threat that causes M. to worry unnecessarily while sending Bond into the fox's den.

It's true. We'd have to have a whole separate tournament for "greatest Dracula of all time."

The Count could preside over the tournament.

Wow. The people who grew up watching Eva are now influencing public policy. What will they recommend next?

This *is* going to turn into a "greatest vampires of all time" tournament, right?

I really don't get all the hate for "Insidious." I'm beginning to think that other viewers were disappointed in it for not having enough gore, or for not resembling "Saw" closely enough, despite being made by Wan and Whannell. Sure, there are a lot of jump scares in it, but none of them are wasteful red herrings. None…

Little known fact: all the mutants who survived the Decimation with their powers intact were *huge* Tom Waits fans.

Much love for including Yui Ikari on this list. She takes the onryo legend to a whole other level, from common vengeful spirit to city-destroying, angel-devouring force of nature. The "berserker" scenes still grab me, years later.

I wondered how many people would notice that it was a Yom Kippur episode. Also, I wish we'd seen that moment of Sam explaining things to the rabbi. We know there are Jewish hunters; I'd be curious to learn more about their specific approach to the life. Would you have to race against the sun to catch demons before…

If the FDA is curious, I believe the worst-case scenario has already been depicted at length.

Apparently there's loads of hate for this book, and I imagine that's because it takes well-worn fantasy tropes, strips them naked, and ties them to a flagpole for the purposes of mockery and towel-snapping. Yes, the protagonist is a whiner. He's two steps away from becoming the next Shinji Ikari. But I thought that…