Horror Films Part 2 – The Near Perfect
The second tier of the horror ranking. Romero, Polanski, Friedkin, Carpenter and Kubrick, plus the films that invented the conventions everything since has used.
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Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 3 – The Excellent
The third tier of the horror ranking. Craven, Peele, Eggers, Aster and Wright, plus the found-footage and folk horror that reset the form.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 4 – The Very Good
The fourth tier of the horror ranking. Scott, Bigelow, Bava, Landis and Raimi, plus the Universal and Hammer pictures that set the conventions.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 5 – The Solid Craft
The fifth tier of the horror ranking. Cameron, Romero, Miike, Coppola and Carpenter, plus the vampire cycle of the late eighties.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 6 – The Dependable
The sixth tier of the horror ranking. Park, Glazer, Kent, Eggers and Wan, plus the vampire films that rebuilt the rules from scratch.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 7 – The Watchable
The seventh tier of the horror ranking. Carpenter, Fulci, Romero and Wan, plus the vampire films that treated hunting as a trade.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 8 – The Flawed
The eighth tier of the horror ranking. The Hammer and seventies vampire cycle, plus the films that took the premise somewhere domestic.
Fiction WritingHorror Films Part 9 – The Failures
The ninth and final tier of the horror ranking. What went wrong, and what each failure teaches about structure, character and nerve.
BureaucracyScience Fiction Part 6 – The Dependable
The sixth tier of the science fiction ranking. Cronenberg, Garland, Wise and Frakes, plus the television that earned its place.
Fiction WritingScience Fiction Part 7 – The Flawed
The seventh tier of the science fiction ranking. Kubrick, Spielberg, Nolan and Niccol, plus the films whose best idea arrived and was never used again.
Fiction WritingScience Fiction Part 8 – The Failures
The final tier of the science fiction ranking, including the negatives. Scott, Nolan, Zemeckis and Cameron, plus the most expensive failures the genre has produced.
EspionageThe Greatest James Bond Films
Every James Bond film ranked, with the rating each one carries in its own review. Casino Royale first, Die Another Day last, and a series that survives by periodically admitting it has gone wrong.