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21St Century Horror Films Ranked in an Effort to Collect an Allencompassing Collection of Films, I Pulled To 21st Century Horror Films Ranked In an effort to collect an all­encompassing collection of films, I pulled together 160 "horror" films and broke down the data for each. Below you will find eight columns that feature distinct ratings. ● Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score ● Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score ● IMDB User Score ● Metacritic Critic Score ● Metacritic User Score ● All Scores Averaged (RT Critic/Audience), Metacritic (Critic/User), IMDB) ● Critic Scores Averaged (Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritc) ● Audience Scores Averaged (IMDB, Metacritc User and Rotten Tomatoes) The following data was collected on August 8, 2015 by Mark Hofmeyer for use on Movies, Films & Flix blog (www.moviesfilmsandflix.com). The subsequent sources were used to compile this ​ ​ data: ● Rotten Tomatoes (Critics, RT Audience Score) ­ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ ​ ● Metacritic (Critic and User Score) ­ http://www.metacritic.com/ ​ ● Internet Movie Database (IMDb Users) ­ http://www.imdb.com/ ​ RT RT Critic Audienc User All Scores RT and Movie Title Score e IMDB Metacritic Score Avg METACRITIC Audience 78.6666666 28 Days Later 87 85 76 73 75 79.2 80 7 28 Weeks later 70 67 70 78 70 71 74 69 62.3333333 30 Days of Night 51 56 66 53 65 58.2 52 3 A Field in England 87 58 62 73 77 80 71.4 71.4 A Girl Walks Home 73.6666666 Alone at Night 96 77 71 81 73 79.6 88.5 7 A Serbian Film 46 44 53 47.66666667 46 48.5 A Tale of Two 79.6666666 Sisters 85 83 73 65 83 77.8 75 7 Absentia 75 49 58 60.66666667 75 53.5 Amer 77 53 63 72 66.25 74.5 58 82.3333333 American Psycho 67.00 85 76 64 86 75.6 65.50 3 64.6666666 Antichrist 50 55 66 49 73 58.6 49.5 7 54.3333333 antiviral 64 40 56 55 67 56.4 59.5 3 53.6666666 As Above so Below 26 39 61 38 61 45 32 7 Attack the block 90 74 66 75 73 75.6 82.5 71 57.6666666 Backcountry 86 51 60 62 62 64.2 74 7 Battle Royale 86 89 7.8 81 82 69.16 83.5 59.6 75.6666666 Behind the Mask 74 74 68 66 85 73.4 70 7 Berberian Sound 61.6666666 Studio 83 53 62 80 70 69.6 81.5 7 81.6666666 Black Swan 87 84 80 79 81 82.2 83 7 Bubba ho­tep 79 79 72 57 83 74 68 78 47.6666666 Bug 61 34 60 62 49 53.2 61.5 7 Byzantium 63 50 65 66 74 63.6 64.5 63 44.3333333 Cabin Fever 63 44 56 56 33 50.4 59.5 3 73.3333333 Cabin in the Woods 91 73 70 72 77 76.6 81.5 3 55.3333333 Carriers 64 39 61 66 57.5 64 3 70.3333333 Cheap Thrills 89 69 68 64 74 72.8 76.5 3 Cloverfield 77 68 71 64 62 68.4 70.5 67 60.3333333 Club Dread 29 43 56 45 82 51 37 3 73.6666666 constantine 46 72 69 50 80 63.4 48 7 Creep 93 70 62 75 93 66 77.6666666 Dawn of the Dead 75 77 74 58 82 73.2 66.5 7 62.6666666 Dead Snow 67 56 64 61 68 63.2 64 7 Dead Snow: Red 72.3333333 vs. Dead 85 70 70 59 77 72.2 72 3 55.3333333 Detention 38 46 58 45 62 49.8 41.5 3 84.3333333 Devils Backbone 92 89 75 78 89 84.6 85 3 71.6666666 Devils Rejects 53 79 69 53 67 64.2 53 7 65.6666666 Drag Me To Hell 92 61 66 83 70 74.4 87.5 7 66.3333333 Eden Lake 83 66 69 64 70.5 83 3 67.3333333 Evil Dead 62 63 65 57 74 64.2 59.5 3 excision 81 61 61 67.66666667 81 61 58.3333333 Final Destination 3 43 57 58 41 60 51.8 42 3 Final Destination 5 61 52 59 50 66 57.6 55.5 59 Frailty 73 79 73 64 88 75.4 68.5 80 Fronteir(s) 55 54 63 57.33333333 55 58.5 63.6666666 Funny Games 52 54 65 44 72 57.4 48 7 Ginger Snaps 89.00 78.00 68 70 90 79 79.50 78.67 Grabbers 72 51 63 62 62 67 57 60.3333333 Grave Encounters 64 48 61 33 72 55.6 48.5 3 Grindhouse 83 87 77 77 78 80.4 80 80.6 60.6666666 Hatchet 50 44 57 57 81 57.8 53.5 7 70.6666666 Hellboy 81 65 68 72 79 73 76.5 7 71.6666666 Hellboy2 86 71 70 78 74 75.8 82 7 High Tension 41 67 69 42 59 55.6 41.5 65 55.6666666 Honeymoon 70 43 56 65 68 60.4 67.5 7 Hostel 61 54 59 55 40 53.8 58 51 House of a 1,000 58.3333333 Corpses 19 66 60 31 49 45 25 3 64.6666666 House of the Devil 86 62 64 73 68 70.6 79.5 7 Housebound 97 74 68 76 80 79 86.5 74 I Saw the Devil 80 86 78 67 79 78 73.5 81 78.6666666 Ichi the Killer 64 82 71 50 83 70 57 7 Infection 75 58 75 58 Insdious 3 60 57 63 52 69 60.2 56 63 Inside 83 76 69 76 83 72.5 67.6666666 Insidious 66 62 68 52 73 64.2 59 7 63.6666666 Insidious 2 38 57 66 40 68 53.8 39 7 69.3333333 It Follows 96 65 69 83 74 77.4 89.5 3 50.3333333 Jeepers Creepers 45 48 61 49 42 49 47 3 John Dies at the 62.6666666 End 61 54 64 53 70 60.4 57 7 72.6666666 Joyride 73 65 66 75 87 73.2 74 7 69.6666666 Ju­On 64 67 67 48 75 64.2 56 7 juan of the dead 79 64 65 69.33333333 79 64.5 62.3333333 Kill List 76 58 63 67 66 66 71.5 3 77.3333333 Let Me In 88 76 72 79 84 79.8 83.5 3 Let the Right One In 98 90 80 82 88 87.6 90 86 Livid 88 64 57 69.66666667 88 60.5 46.3333333 Lords of Salem 45 30 51 57 58 48.2 51 3 Maniac 49 44 61 47 75 55.2 48 60 Martyrs 52 69 71 64 52 70 51.3333333 May 69 75 67 58 12 56.2 63.5 3 Mothman 66.6666666 Prohpecies 52 56 65 52 79 60.8 52 7 79.3333333 Mulholland Drive 81 88 80 81 70 80 81 3 55.3333333 Oculus 73 52 65 61 49 60 67 3 Ony Lovers Left Alive 86 74 73 79 75 77.4 82.5 74 Orphan 55 63 70 74 77 67.8 64.5 70 86.3333333 Pans Labyrinth 95 91 83 98 85 90.4 96.5 3 Paranormal Activity 83 56 63 68 58 65.6 75.5 59 Piranha 3D 73 44 55 53 57 56.4 63 52 65.3333333 Pulse 73 60 66 70 70 67.8 71.5 3 54.6666666 Quarantine 58 44 60 53 60 55 55.5 7 Rec 96 81 75 84 96 78 Rogue 100 54 62 70 71.5 100 62 79.3333333 Saw 48 84 77 46 77 66.4 47 3 64.3333333 Saw 2 36 59 66 40 68 53.8 38 3 66.6666666 Saw 3 28 71 62 48 67 55.2 38 7 Saw 3D 9 42 56 24 55 37.2 16.5 51 60.6666666 Saw 4 17 62 59 36 61 47 26.5 7 55.6666666 Saw 5 12 53 58 20 56 39.8 16 7 59.6666666 Saw VI 36 55 60 30 64 49 33 7 Session 9 63 64 65 58 78 65.6 60.5 69 Shadow of a 76.3333333 Vampire 81 74 69 71 86 76.2 76 3 86.3333333 Shaun of the Dead 92 93 80 76 86 85.4 84 3 Shutter 56 78 71 68.33333333 56 74.5 65.3333333 Sightseers 85 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