20 Best Horror Flicks

19) The Village

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Adrien Brody, Judy Greer, Brendan Gleeson,
Cherry Jones, Jessie Eisenberg, Michael Pitt

Year: 2004

M. Night Shyamalan has certainly proven that he can write a terrifically scary film, but it was 2004's The Village that kept audiences everywhere feeling unrelentless intensity and suspense. Another reason this film is so good: it introduced us to the amazingly talented Bryce Dallas Howard.

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20 Best Horror Flicks

HONORABLE MENTION

The Ring

Director: Gore Verbanski

Actors: Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Martin Henderson, 

Brian Cox, Amber Tamblyn, Jane Alexander

Year: 2002

Quarantine

Director: John Erik Dowdle

Actors: Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Steve Harris, 

Johnathon Schaech, Columbus Short, Rade Serbedzija

Year: 2008

Coraline

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, 

Keith David, Robert Bailey Jr, Ian McShane, John Hodgman

Year: 2009

Alien

Director: Ridley Scott

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, 

Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Ian Holm, 

Year: 1979

The Mummy

Director: Stephen Sommers

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, 

Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, Kevin O'Connor, Patricia Velasquez

Year: 1999

The Devil's Backbone 

(El Espinazo del Diablo)

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Actors: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Irene Visedo

Year: 2001

Shaun of the Dead

Director: Edgar Wright

Actors: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, 

Dylan Moran, Peter Serafinawicz, Bill Nighy

Year: 2004

Ju-On

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Actors: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa 

Year: 2002

The Descent

Director: Neil Marshall

Actors: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, 

Nora-Jane Noone, Saskia Mulder

Year: 2005

Did You Know...

... Nick Nolte and Sigourney Weaver started out their careers 

as models. Here they are in a Clairol ad, 1970s

Double Nominees

13 actors have the distinction of being nominated for 2 Academy Awards in the same year. Out of the 13, only 5 did not win either one.

1931

Norma Shearer

Best Actress - "Their Own Desire"

Best Actress - "The Divorcee"

1931

Greta Garbo

Best Actress - "Anna Christie"

Best Actress - "Romance"

1939

Fay Bainter

Best Actress - "White Banners"

Best Supporting Actress - "Jezebel"

1943

Teresa Wright

Best Actress - "The Pride of the Yankees"

Best Supporting Actress - "Mrs. Miniver"

1945

Barry Fitzgerald

Best Actor - "Going My Way"

Best Supporting Actor - "Going My Way"

*** the only person in history to be nominated for the same role for both acting categories. The academy realized their mistake and made a strict rule prohibiting this. Technically an actor can be nominated in the same category twice in one year. For example, Kate Winslet could have possibly been nominated for Best Actress for "Revolutionary Road" for 2009 (along with her Best Actress nom for "The Reader") if she had received the votes.

1983

Jessica Lange

Best Actress - "Frances"

Best Supporting Actress - "Tootsie"

1989

Sigourney Weaver

Best Actress - "Gorillas in the Mist"

Best Supporting Actress - "Working Girl"

1993

Al Pacino

Best Actor - "Scent of a Woman"

Best Supporting Actor - "Glengarry Glen Ross"

1994

Holly Hunter

Best Actress - "The Piano"

Best Supporting Actress - "The Firm"

1994

Emma Thompson

Best Actress - "The Remains of the Day"

Best Supporting Actress - "In the Name of the Father"

2003

Julianne Moore

Best Actress - "Far from Heaven"

Best Supporting Actress - "The Hours"

2005

Jamie Foxx

Best Actor - "Ray"

Best Supporting Actor - "Collateral"

2008

Cate Blanchett

Best Actress - "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"

Best Supporting Actress - "I'm Not There"