Horror Films Part 1 – The Masterpieces
The top twenty horror films. Whale, Hitchcock, Tourneur, Demme and Aster, plus the creature pictures and the franchises that got their first entry right.
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CrimeCrime Films Part 1 – The Masterpieces
The top twenty crime films. Lang, Huston, Wilder, Kurosawa, Polanski, Coppola and Scorsese, plus the modern entries that earned their place beside them.
CrimeCrime Films Part 2 – The Near Perfect
The second tier of the crime ranking. The Coens, Hanson, Fincher and Melville, plus the heist films that taught the form its grammar.
CrimeCrime Films Part 3 – The Excellent
The third tier of the crime ranking. Scorsese, Lumet, Fincher and Tarantino, plus the documentary that changed a verdict and the westerns that relocated to cities.
CrimeCrime Films Part 4 – The Very Good
The fourth tier of the crime ranking. Soderbergh, Scorsese, De Palma and Ferrara, plus the pre-Code gangster pictures and the television that outgrew the form.
CrimeCrime Films Part 5 – The Solid Craft
The fifth tier of the crime ranking. Ritchie, Cronenberg, Affleck and the Coens, plus the heist pictures that turned real cases into features.
CrimeCrime Films Part 6 – The Watchable
The sixth tier of the crime ranking. The eighties star vehicles, the police procedurals that found a neighborhood, and the television that outlasted its own format.
CrimeCrime Films Part 7 – The Failures
The bottom of the crime ranking. The adaptations that softened their source, the exploitation cycle at its least defensible, and the films that needed somebody to say no.
Fiction WritingHorror 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.
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.