Should be in the top 10 horror films

Rating: 10/10 (28 April 2002)

I don't want to spend this review gushing about how good this film is and blah blah blah. It is a masterpiece of cinema, bar none. This movie is probably second only to the Exorcist because it is one of only a few films in the true gothic tradition. Anyone that has read HP Lovecraft knows what I am talking about. Everything is designed just slightly askew, like the way the characters eat too fast or that bizarre accent of the lady next door. Nothing is as it seems, and that is the true beauty of it.

My complaint is that films like this do not receive the respect they deserve. In today's MTV culture anything that isn't exploding every five minutes is a sleeper. What happened to the time when people had the patience to watch a film that had depth to it? I realize that being in the top 30 of the IMDB ranking should be quite good, but why isn't it number 2? I enjoy comedy as much as the next person, but a film like Young Frankenstein does not deserve to be occupying spots in a serious genre. This film is like a painting by Picasso, and the rest are just comic books.