Fox has chosen their pick of the top 25 films within the scifi, horror and fantasy genre. I personally feel they have missed the mark on several they chose, as well as those omitted.
You can vote on your favorite of their picks by CLICKING HERE.
#25 – The Wolf Man (1941)
#24 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
#23 – Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
#22 – Jaws (1975)
#21 – Dracula (1931)
#20 – The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) (2001-2003)
#19 – Ghostbusters (1984)
#18 – The Invisible Man (1933)
#17 – The Mummy (1999)
#16 – Dawn of the Dead (1978)
#15 – The Terminator (1984)
#14 – Jurassic Park (1993)
#13 – Clash of the Titans (2010)
#12 – Cloverfield (2008)
#11 – Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
#10 – Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
#09 – The Fly (1986)
#08 – King Kong (1933)
#07 – Mothra (1961)
#06 – Predator (1987)
#05 – Godzilla (1954)
#04 – The Host (2006)
#03 – Alien (1979)
#02 – Frankenstein (1931)
#01 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Somehow overlooked by those fair and unbalanced Fox film critics are the following classics in scifi:
Blade Runner
Star Wars
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
John Carpenter’s The Thing
Serenity
Yeah, Blade Runner, that would have been my choice. Followed by Stars Wars.
I have to agree and wonder what they were thinking when the missed certain films off the list.
Gotta agree with Blade Runner…should have been on the list. And if these picks are in order….Lord of the Rings should have been higher. Personally I would have also included 28 Days Later.
Love that Creature From the Black Lagoon is finally getting some respect. But no love for Monster of Phantom Lake? What’s up with that?
What a nice List. Good List. Stay boy. Stay…
OK. I like a number of the choices here. I may not agree with positioning on… well any of them, but I can’t say there’s a real “problem” with it.
At the same time, Why On Earth would I trust a company that doesn’t know what “best in genre” means when it comes to TV?
The Mummy? Clash of the Titans? Really? There are way better genre movies than those two!!!!
I think we might have to take into account their pool of poll respondents. I also think this sheds an interesting light on why smart and complex scifi shows seem to have so much trouble on Fox.
If these are the movies that their audience believes is representative of top genre films (many of them belong on this list, but I have issues with many of the rankings), then maybe the wrong types of scifi shows are ending up on Fox, if these movies are what typical Fox viewers grade highly.
Cloverfield, and The Host? Seriously? I wouldn’t even put those in a Top 25 B-Movie list.
lol..cloverfield..lol
sorry, your list is invalid
better luck next time!
Well, I don’t see Forbidden Planet on the list, but here are some other suggestions that are more deserving than Mothra and Clash of the Titans (2010).
Aliens
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Brazil
Back to the Future
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (it was a true classic and accurate for it’s time)
Metropolis
Dune
And so many more…
I Shhould have also added:
Planet of the Apes
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes back
My first thought was–are all the movies they picked owned or distributed by 20th Century Fox?
Don’t get me wrong, I loved “Cloverfield” but I would have easily replaced it with “Dark City”
Some of the films on this list are true classics, some are fun but not great movies, and some of these choices are a joke.
Attack of the 50 Foot Women. I wouldn’t list it in the top 10 of 1950’s scifi films. Its MST3K material. Clash of the Titans, Mothra, The Host, Cloverfield!? What are these people smoking? What ever it is you want to avoid it because it obviously causes brain damage.
Charlie Sheen must have made this list. It’s that bat-shit crazy. The 2010 Clash of the Titans?!?!?!? Cloverfield? If tigerblood leads to judgement like this, I’ll just say no. Also, not that I hate 2001 A Space Odyssey, but way too damned boring for number 1…number 10 maybe. The 5 films listed by Sam definitely make the top 10 in my opinion. This list = epic fail. Next time, they should poll people that have already gone through puberty.