SHOCKtober: 244-213

Aw yeah, now it's gettin' real. Why, I can smell the top 200 from here! At least I hope that's the Top 200...

Anyway, each of the following films received four votes. 

244. All Cheerleaders Die -- 2013, Lucky McKee & Chris Sivertson

243. American Mary -- 2012, Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska

242. American Psycho -- 2000, Mary Harron

241. Army of Darkness -- 1992, Sam Raimi

240. Battle Royale -- 2000, Kinji Fukasaku

239. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon -- 2006, Scott Glosserman

238. Black Sunday -- 1960, Mario Bava

237. Brain Damage -- 1988, Frank Henenlotter

236. Climax -- 2018, Gaspar Noé

235. Creature from the Black Lagoon -- 1954, Jack Arnold

234. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight -- 1995, Ernest R. Dickerson

233. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark -- 1988, James Signorelli

232. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood -- 1988, John Carl Buechler

231. Frankenstein -- 1931, James Whale

230. Funny Games -- 1997, Michael Haneke

229. Grabbers -- 2012, Jon Wright

228. Grave Encounters -- 2011, Colin Minihan & Stuart Ortiz

227. Hellbound: Hellraiser II -- 1988, Tony Randel

226. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- 1986, John McNaughton

225. I Know What You Did Last Summer -- 1997, Jim Gillespie

224. I Walked with a Zombie -- 1943, Jacques Tourneur

223. Jacob's Ladder -- 1990, Adrian Lyne

222. Just Before Dawn -- 1981, Jeff Lieberman

221. Krampus -- 2015, Michael Dougherty

220. The Lair of the White Worm -- 1988, Ken Russell

219. Martin -- 1977, George A. Romero

218. Misery -- 1990, Rob Reiner

217. Nightbreed -- 1990, Clive Barker

216. Onibaba -- 1964, Kaneto Shindô

215. Orphan -- 2009, Jaume Collet-Serra

214. Scanners -- 1981, David Cronenberg

213. Scream 2 -- 1997, Wes Craven

• (crowd chants) Or-phan! Or-phan! Or-phan! She sure is different! I still love that bonkers movie so much. I'm also still waiting for Esther's head to fall off when she removes her velvet choker...
• Of Nightbreed, a reader says: "The monsters-as-good-guys angle was still pretty fresh at the time, and as the years have passed I've grown to love it as an LGBTQIA parable."
• Can me pathetic if you will ("Oh don't worry, I will!" -- you), but I'm still hanging onto a sliver of hope for that All Cheerleaders Die sequel. What a fun movie, I'm glad more folks are getting hip to it.
• "Yes, it's a comedy, but there is 100% a dark supernatural event at the heart of it. The best cast you could ever want, and dialogue that is forever memorable," says a reader about Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and so say we all.
• Upon seeing Jacob's Ladder in today's list chunk, I thought "Hmm. What has that purveyor of lite-n-sexy sleaze Adrian Lyne been up to? Sure has been a while." It turns out he has a new movie coming next year (or whenever), his first since 2002: Dark Water, an adaptation of a very "Patricia Highsmith" Patricia Highsmith novel, if you know what I mean. Love the book and I'm looking forward to it...Ben Affleck is perfect casting, same as he was for Gone Girl.