Chicago, IL (December 14, 2022) The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces their 2022 award winners. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. 'RoboCop': All the Failed Attempts to Adapt the Movie to TV. Image of Janet Leigh, John Gavin, and Vera Miles in one of the scariest movies ever made, Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho: Paramount Pictures. (Check out the full list of the Chicago Film Critics top 100 horror movies of all time.). Tracy Arnold. Umberto Paolo Quintavalle. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). From the shore, Emily and the townsmen watch her. Lil Dagover. Robert Shaw. Barbara Crampton. And no, I dont recall sensing a gay subtext between Karloff and the Old Dark wacko. Cate Blanchett earned the Best Actress award for TR; Sarah Polleys WOMEN TALKING was named Best Adapted Screenplay.Other highlights among the winners this year include: GUILLERMO DEL TOROS PINOCCHIO named Best Animated Feature; FIRE OF LOVE named Best Documentary; DECISION TO LEAVE named Best Foreign Language Film; and Charlotte Wells, writer/director of AFTERSUN, named recipient of the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award. 72. Cast: Rutger Hauer. Cast: Bruce Willis. Carnival of Souls (1962). Cast: Jon Voight. Jurassic Park (1993). 38. I tend to ignore top 100 film lists because they are usually made by people who know little about movies beyond Hollywood stuff made in the last 15 or 20 years. John Karlen. Needless to say, youll find a number of oddities on the list. Although it remains a controversial film to this day, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and while not typically considered a horror film, Sal was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006. The nominations were announced on December 18, 2020. Shelley Winters. 9. The Birds (1963). Psycho works best in a crowded theater. Director: Larry Cohen. Charles Durning. Cast: David Hess. The complete list of 2022 Chicago Film Critics Award winners is as follows:BEST PICTURE: The Banshees of InisherinBEST DIRECTOR: Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at OnceBEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, TRBEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of InisherinBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kerry Condon, The Banshees of InisherinBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at OnceBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Women Talking by Sarah PolleyBEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonaghBEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo del Toro's PinocchioBEST DOCUMENTARY: Fire of LoveBEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Decision to LeaveBEST ART DIRECTION: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Jason Kisvarday & Amelia BrookeBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Decision to Leave, Kim Ji-YongBEST COSTUME DESIGN: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Shirley KurataBEST EDITING: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Paul RogersBEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Babylon, Justin HurwitzBEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: Everything Everywhere All at OnceMOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Austin Butler, ElvisMILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Charlotte Wells, Aftersun. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, released their roster for 2022-2023 today, announcing the acceptance of four new members.The new critics represent a a variety of film journalism in Chicago and bring their voices to one of the country's longest-standing and most . Horror of Dracula / Dracula (1958). In their bedroom, the couple go to lie down; Jessica notices a cut on Duncan's neck, and Emily then enters the room brandishing a knife, with the townsmen following behind her. Bill Thornbury. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. That one had a sick transformation, what about the underrated The Changeling with George C.Scott? I never get the need people have to place things in such dogmatic hierarchial contexts. The Seventh Victim (1943). [12] The theme of evil pervading the protagonist's mind was central: "I was alarmed by the notion that you can't defeat or defuse evilit forever lives inside and all around usso I worked that fear inside the story," said Hancock. Cast: Oliver Reed. Ian Watkin. Brooke Adams. The film never makes clear. 56. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan. (I cant think of any big-screen showings of Bride in the Los Angeles area in the near future.). I havent seen several of the films in their top-ten list. 43. "[32] The San Francisco Examiner's Stanley Eichelbaum also noted deficiencies in the screenplay, noting that the film "seems improvised and nothing could be worse for this kind of structured suspense thriller. Cast: Deborah Kerr. 6. Socially conscious & political cinema. Oh yeah let me guess, Triology Of Terror with its 7 inch tall Voodoo doll and Open water(a rip off jaws) is scarier, hehehe. Cast: Audrey Hepburn. Sandra Peabody (as Sandra Cassell). Martita Hunt. Joaquin Phoenix. Vera Miles. 33. 91. Robert Englund. 10th Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival (May 5-11 at Music Box Theatre) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 63. John Cassavetes. Jane Asher. 39. Claiming the organization's top honor as Best Picture of the year is THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, directed by Martin McDonagh.The film also earned awards for Best Actor (Colin Farrell), Best Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon) and Best Original Screenplay (Martin McDonagh). Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in Wes Cravens A Nightmare on Elm Street: New Line Cinema. Allen Danziger. "Halloween" 4. Cast: Heather Donohue. The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, and Shaun of the Dead are all in, but not the 1945 British horror classic Dead of Night. Cast: Nobuko Otowa. 99. Director: David Cronenberg. Instead, look upon them as a means of finding new movies to enjoy. Below is the list of the Chicago Film Critics Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time, including their directors and key cast members. Filming of Let's Scare Jessica to Death took place in various towns and villages in Connecticut, largely in Middlesex County. Director: Philip Kaufman. "[16] Because the film was shot in the fall months, the sequences that were shot in the lake required the actors to swim in very cold water. 98. I can see this being a (painfully cliche) top 100 horror films list, but saying its a list of the scariest films with so many horror-comedies and borderline thrillers is insane. Hahah LMAO, Shaun Of the Dead! [2] The song sung by Costello's character was initially going to be dubbed by a professional singer, but Hancock and the producers decided to keep her voice as it was recorded. [39], Film scholar John Stanley gave the film a favorable review in his 1995 book, writing: "Director John Hancock is to be congratulated for a multi-layered horror film with frightening visuals. Cast: Kurt Russell. Murnaus brilliant Dracula rip-off Nosferatu. Also, simply saying you were utterly unimpressed by Psycho is like dismissing Shakespeare as a hack or the Beatles as overrated. It had a certain gay subtext for me. "[5], The decline of 1960s counterculture has been cited as a theme by critics and observers. Stick to your lighthearted comedy Chicago times. Cast: Naomi Watts. Cast: Anthony Perkins. Dressed to Kill (1980). Jared Leto. [7] Doyle elaborates that the film "isolates and illuminates the death and corruption of counterculture values" from the era, and anticipates the "festering paranoia" that occurred throughout the 1970s, with the Watergate scandal, the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, and the Jonestown massacre. the first like 15 arent the least bit scary. Richard Crenna. What critics said: "Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone is a really cool ghost story with an . Daniel Travis. Creature From The Black Lagoon was excellent for its time, but thanks alot Chicago times for putting a 50s Sci-fi on your top 100 Horror movies, hehehe. Director: F.W. Laura Dern. 55. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). 22. Cast: Candace Hilligoss. Director: Karl Freund. There isn't much logic to the story, yet the overall effect is unsettling the film has a dream-like quality. Cast: Peter Cushing. overall a good list.. i was especially happy they included lets scare jessica to death and god told me to- those are often overlooked, and great horror films. Session 9 (2001). Helen Chandler. An unrelated 1987 big-screen suspense thriller called The Night Stalker was directed by Max Kleven, and featured Charles Napier and Joan Chen. 96. [16] Hancock was specifically taken by Costello's physical features, which included bright red hair and a pale complexion, which he felt was befitting of the vampiric Emily. Dennis Hopper. Lastly, links found in submitted comments will generally be deleted. Janet Leigh. Pamela Brown. Director: Werner Herzog. Director: John Carpenter. Black Sunday / La maschera del demonio (1960). Deborah Raffin. Director: Michael Powell. So Jurassic Park is scarier then Salo? 12. One persons junk is a meaningful journey for someone else. If we find an update, well definitely post it on the blog. The Shining (1980). 5. Which Bram Stokers Dracula? Mae Clarke. Kevin OConnor. Carrie (1976) 17. Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Marilyn Eastman. Ned Beatty. Follow-up post: Full list of the Chicago Film Critics Associations Top 100 Horror Movies Ever Made, including their directors and key cast members. The film was #14 on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004). Hilary Mason. Heather Graham. Save my name and email in this browser for the next time I submit a comment. Why Are We Still Putting Actors in Fat Suits? [24] Co-producer William Badalato had suggested the location: "My wife and I had a weekend house in Chester, Connecticut. Director: Brian De Palma. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, released their roster for 2022-2023 today, announcing the acceptance of four new members. Josh Lucas. Flavio Bucci. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan. Carol Lynley. Zohra could play the fragility of the character, but she could also authentically convey the fear and the terror. (Note: Don Siegels original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is on the list, but Kurt Neumanns original The Fly, in which Patricia Owens screams her head off, is not.). Moira Shearer. Gay movies. Powers Boothe. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, today announces the complete lineup, schedule and special guests expected for the ninth annual Chicago Critics Film Festival, May 13-19 at the Music Box Theatre. Big saurians are way more horrible then fascists who force you to eat shit and afterwards torture you to death in front of your friends. Claiming the organizations top honor as Best Picture of the year is THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, directed by Martin McDonagh. I agree that Chicagos was not so bad at all. Director: Stuart Gordon. You may have your reasons, but without explanation it casts serious doubt on your judgment. Curiously, even though I have trouble watching scary films no matter how stupid or absurd several titles found on the Chicago Film Critics Scariest Movies list left me utterly unimpressed. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, announces today the first seven films selected for the 2022 Chicago Critics Film Festival. [11] Jessica was partly influenced by the governess in Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw,[11] as well as the character of Eleanor Lance in Robert Wise's film The Haunting (1963). Chicago Film Critics Association website. Cast: Sigourney Weaver. But something much more significant. Im sure it was scary for that era, but I watched it a few months ago and the only part that scared me was the end. Salems Lot (1979, TV). ), no matter the category or criteria, because these lists are almost invariably compiled by people who know little about films beyond mainstream Hollywood stuff released in the last decade or two. Heather ORourke. Colin Clive. 61. Gwyneth Paltrow. The very fact that Shyamalans abysmal Signs made the cut, and Fulcis Gates Of Hellor Zombi; The Brood or The Sentinel didnt. Cast: Zohra Lampert. 29. Lists as a means of measuring film history are indeed useless (just take a look at the AFI lists), but I bet that Sight & Sound will come up with another such list in 2012. Jennifer Carpenter. 60. David Warner. Claiming the organizations top honors is Jane Campions masterful THE POWER OF THE DOG, which earned a leading seven awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Best Supporting Actor (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score. Jack Weston. Well, all credibility goes right in the poop saloon, as far as Im concerned. "[36] Writing for the Edmonton Journal, Barry Westgate was critical of the film, noting: "Even contrived cinema has to have its share of rhyme or reason, and this effort by John Hancock doesn't have so much as a touch of either. Cast: Kevin McCarthy. Wilford Brimley. Director: Scott Derrickson. Kathy Bates. The Blair Witch Project (1999). [19] Gretchen Corbett, also an established New York-based stage actress from Portland, Oregon, was cast as the mysterious mute girl whom Jessica encounters, and was the only performer in the principal cast to have not worked with Hancock prior. Courteney Cox. Ralph Bellamy. Wrapping this up, its worth noting that four of the Chicago Film Critics top 100 scariest movies are made-for-television productions: Dan Curtis Bram Stokers Dracula and Trilogy of Terror, Tobe Hoopers Salems Lot, and John Llewellyn Moxeys The Night Stalker. [19] Heyman had been Hancock's first choice in the role of Duncan. [35], Jack Meredith of the Windsor Star described the film as a "far-out bit of froth" that "nevertheless packs continuing suspense and a what's-going-to-happen-next element that never lets down through about 1 hours of sustained action. Bruno Ganz. 65. Why Hasn't Steven Spielberg Made a Western? Donald Pleasence. Phantasm (1979). Evelyn Ankers. Nosferatu / Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922). 16. Hazel Court. Director: Tobe Hooper. [8], In writing the role of Jessica, Hancock sought to create a filmic equivalent to the unreliable narrator in literary fiction. Director: John McNaughton. It was quite freaky, but I left watching the Exorcist completely freaked out. "Psycho" 2. Lillian Gish. She also becomes aware that Duncan seems to be attracted to Emily, and that the men in the nearby town, all of whom are bandaged in some way, are hostile towards them. Director: Lucky McKee. 80. Alien (1979). [49] Paramount released the film on DVD on August 29, 2006,[50] and reissued it on September 15, 2009. Scariest movies ever made: The top 100 horror films according to the Chicago Film Critics (photo: The Chicago Critics' Top 100 Horror (or Just Plain Creepy) Films in History, Lawrence Pitkethly, Producer of Documentary Series American Cinema and Voices and Visions, Dies at 79, Michelle Yeoh didnt work for two years due to stereotypical roles offered to her. 51. Dawn of the Dead (1978). Black Christmas (1974). 74. Joshua Leonard. Anna Faris. [18] Barton Heyman and Kevin O'Connor were given the roles of Jessica's husband Duncan, and the couple's friend Woody, respectively; Hancock had worked with Heyman and O'Connor previously, as they had appeared in his 19671968 stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Martin (1976; released in 1978). 68. First titles include highly anticipated films like the Chicago premiere of Cooper Raiffs CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, starring Raiff and Dakota Johnson. Zita Johann. Classic movies. Unfortunately, a list filled with relatively obscure titles (i.e., anything made outside of Hollywood, released before 1985, and that hasnt become a major classic of some kind) will not get the sort of media attention accorded to lists consisting of more popular fare. Murnau. I didnt see REC and REC2 on this list. [11] While shooting, the cast and crew used multiple rooms in the expansive mansion for dressing rooms and a headquarters for the film company. That being said, PSYCHO CANT BE NUMBER ONE! So, I think thats why youre description of it puzzled me. Judith ODea. Cast: Boris Karloff. Melissa Stribling. P.O. Cast: Neve Campbell. 30. Campbell Scott. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces nominees for their top film honors of 2022; winners will be announced at the organizations annual awards ceremony to be held in Chicago on Wednesday, December 14. I trusted their instincts because they had a concrete experience of audiences. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 23. Rena Mandel. Deliverance (1972). Similarly, the Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 3rd scariest film ever made. Morgan Freeman. Patsy Kelly. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Geena Davis. Gene Bervoets. "The Devil's Backbone" (2001) Good Machine. 2023 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films (Music Box) Ambush (VOD) Blue Caftan, The. The Haunting (1963). Cast: Donald Sutherland. Cast: Jack Palance. The next day, Jessica finds the portrait of the Bishop family, which she and Duncan had sold to Dorker the previous day, back in the attic; she observes that Abigail Bishop, as seen on the photo, bears a striking resemblance to Emily. The Hitcher (1986). James Mason. Irreversible: Straight Cut. Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time/Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Film Critics' Choices - Page 3 show list info list stats leaders vote print comments How many have you seen? Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy. The film depicts the nightmarish experiences of a psychologically fragile woman who comes to believe that another strange, mysterious young woman she has let into her home may actually be a vampire. The Chicago Film Critics Association has named Chlo Zhao's " Nomadland " as this year's big winner, netting five prizes, including best picture, director, actress (Frances McDormand),. 11. Director: Jacques Tourneur. yeah, its almost criminal that jacobs ladder and the changeling werent on this list.. i would have also added polanskis the tenant, and flaws aside, the recent french film inside as well, but thats just personal opinion. Having said that, Lon Chaney Jr. movies seem to be obtainable, as The Wolf Man is in. The Thing (1982). Michael E. Williams. Amanda Bearse. Director: Kathryn Bigelow. Veronica Cartwright. Halloween 4. 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