"As we approach another awards season with virtually no chance of a horror winner, I thought it'd be fun to chart a little revisionist history: Let's determine the winner of the Horror Oscars every year since Halloween. I'll pick a winner and four other nominees. Some years are loaded (see: the past 24 months), while some are not (see: the early '90s). The genre ebbs and flows. What are our criteria? As with the actual Oscars, it's whatever we say it is, some alchemical combination of influence, importance, achievement, gerrymandering, and sheer delight. Like many Oscar winners, some of our horror movies are period pieces; some are freewheeling romps; some are technical masterpieces; some are harrowing examinations of evil. All are eligible in this exercise. Though the scarier the better."
This list includes both "winners" and "nominees".
