Who's the scariest horror movie villain?
( ) Freddy Krueger of ‘Nightmare’
( ) Jason from ‘Friday the 13th’
( ) Michael Myers of ‘Halloween’
-- actual "Yahoo!" poll, June 6, 2012
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What’s wrong with this is that an artificial pre-selection has been made in which we are supposed to assume that that poll writer has identified the correct finalists for us. This arrogant, spoon-feeding trick guarantees unreliable results.
Close your eyes, roll them around in the sockets a little bit, take a deep breath, and consider this vastly superior list:
Jack Nicholson in The Shining
Donald Sutherland in The Hunger Games
*Boris Karloff in The Mummy
*Bela Lugosi in Dracula
Claude Raines in The Invisible Man
*Jeff Goldblum in The Fly (1986)
The sensory deprivation tank survivors in The Mind Benders
Gort the robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still
HAL the computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey
*The cannibal zombies in Night of the Living Dead
*Colossus in Colossus: the Forbin Project
The bending door (a special effect) in The Haunting (1962)
Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz
Gerard Butler in The Phantom of the Opera
*Jeroen Krabbe as Dr. Charles Nichols, Kimble’s friend, in The Fugitive (1993)
Christopher Walken as Gabriel in The Prophecy
The alien (artist: H.R. Giger) in Alien
My own personal finalists are marked with an asterisk (*).
( ) Freddy Krueger of ‘Nightmare’
( ) Jason from ‘Friday the 13th’
( ) Michael Myers of ‘Halloween’
-- actual "Yahoo!" poll, June 6, 2012
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
What’s wrong with this is that an artificial pre-selection has been made in which we are supposed to assume that that poll writer has identified the correct finalists for us. This arrogant, spoon-feeding trick guarantees unreliable results.
Close your eyes, roll them around in the sockets a little bit, take a deep breath, and consider this vastly superior list:
Jack Nicholson in The Shining
Donald Sutherland in The Hunger Games
*Boris Karloff in The Mummy
*Bela Lugosi in Dracula
Claude Raines in The Invisible Man
*Jeff Goldblum in The Fly (1986)
The sensory deprivation tank survivors in The Mind Benders
Gort the robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still
HAL the computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey
*The cannibal zombies in Night of the Living Dead
*Colossus in Colossus: the Forbin Project
The bending door (a special effect) in The Haunting (1962)
Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz
Gerard Butler in The Phantom of the Opera
*Jeroen Krabbe as Dr. Charles Nichols, Kimble’s friend, in The Fugitive (1993)
Christopher Walken as Gabriel in The Prophecy
The alien (artist: H.R. Giger) in Alien
My own personal finalists are marked with an asterisk (*).
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