The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen (2014)
*** (out of 4)
P.J. Soles hosts this two-hour and twenty-minute documentary taking a look, as the title tells you, the fifty best horror moves you've never seen. Countless critics, actors, writers and directors show up to talk about the movies in question and why they love them so much.
Look, whenever a list like this is put together it's mainly for debate. People will take a look at the list and argue about the ranking or argue about what film was left off. These lists are just made to stir up a conversation and more times than not there's not too much thought put into them. As far as this list goes, I'm curious as to who this documentary was aimed at because the majority of the films on here are extremely well-known titles that even your marginal horror fan is going to know about. The film might be beneficial to those who really are unaware of anything outside of HALLOWEEN, Friday THE 13TH or THE Texas CHAIN SAW MASSACRE but everyone else is probably going to know of the films.
With that said, the list of films is a little.....over the map I guess you'd say. At first it seems like the list is going for titles from the past thirty years then they quickly do an old Hammer but then there's really nothing else "old" until we get THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and REPULSION. Some might argue these aren't even horror movies but I think the bigger argument is who hasn't heard of these movies? Then you've got stuff like BASKET CASE, BLACK Christmas, THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, THE HUNGER, HALLOWEEN III, WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, RE-ANIMATOR, PUMPKINHEAD and AUDITION. Again, most of these titles are very well known.
With that said, seeing something like THE FOOD OF THE GODS making the list is a bit of a head-scratcher. Either way, THE 50 BEST HORROR MOVIES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN is a mildly entertaining documentary that horror fans should enjoy even though they're not going to stumble across anything they probably haven't already seen or at least heard of.
