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Even though movie lists are opinions (and we know what opinions are like), there's usually a kernel of universality to them. For example, any knowledgeable list about the greatest movies ever made would almost certainly include The Godfather, and if you're counting war movies, it's hard to see Saving Private Ryan being omitted. We just covered a list about animated films, and not surprisingly, about half the titles would be on any respected collection. But what's interesting about most lists is in the exceptions.

So while Martin Scorsese's well-informed list of the scariest movies ever may not be exactly the way you'd draw it up, there are a few here that are surefire locks: Exorcist, Psycho, and The Shining. Now, Marty is in his 60s and he grew up in a generation that didn't have a lot of horror films. There was the early crop of Universal monster movies - none of which you'll see here, oddly enough - but for about ten years after WWII, there seemed to be a lot less of that stuff for whatever reason.

Psycho, of course, ushered in the modern era of horror, where we were no longer scared of monsters and things that go bump in the night but the person next door, so a lot of the films on Scorsese's list reflect that. There's nothing from the slasher genre, and that's not terribly surprising, either. How many of these have you seen? My number is seven, and I'd probably only have the three mentioned above on my own list.

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