Vote now: The Tribune's Halloween horror movie challenge is underway
An intellectual cannibal. A motel manager with severe mommy issues. Aliens, clowns and supernatural creatures of every sort.
Halloween is fast approaching, and with it, the urge for many to watch scary movies.
We promise we're not like the Ghostface killer in "Scream," but The Tribune really is asking, "What's your favorite scary movie?"
We've built a 64-movie tournament bracket for readers to vote over the next several weeks on the spookiest films in history.
The voting for the first round is live and will run until Tuesday. Next week, we'll update with second-round matchups.
How did we decide on which movies to include and how they're ranked? We pulled the list from the highest-ranked horror movies according to users on The Internet Movie Database.
Have a beef with a movie being snubbed from our field? It could be that IMDB raters didn't like it as much as you do. (I, for one, am appalled by how the 1978 version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and the 1931 "Dracula" both fall so low. I also would have found a way to include Dario Argento's "Suspiria" and the more recent "The Menu" with Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes.)
Admittedly, your favorite movie's absence could also fall to an editorial decision on what qualified as horror versus action or strictly sci-fi. Reasonable people may disagree with our decision to count "Jaws" or the Hitchcock classic "Rebecca" as horror while leaving out "The Terminator" and "Predator." (Sorry, Arnold.)
Whether your choices end up winning or not, hopefully the whole exercise is a fun diversion, and maybe even gives you some leads on new-to-you movies to check out this Halloween season.
Cory Havens is enterprise editor at The Tribune and a lifelong horror junkie. He'll be hoping for "Train to Busan" to make a deep Cinderella run in the tournament.
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