The Sight and Sound Poll is a survey that has been conducted once every ten years since 1952, denoting film critics’ opinions on the 100 greatest films of all time. The results of the 2022 poll have just been released — marking the first update to the rankings since 2012.
Recommended VideosTwo surprising additions to the Top 100 rankings are horror films Get Out and Parasite, with the former landing at spot number 95, and the latter at 90. Despite landing at the lower end of the rankings, the two films landing on the list at all is quite the achievement, considering the list chronicles the best of the medium from around the world since its inception.
In case, time is an illusion to you, might we remind you that both Get Out and Parasite both arrived in the past five years?
Reactions to two of the best horror flicks from the past decades being included were mostly positive, but certainly not without elitist naysayers downplaying the significance of the two films:
seeing Parasite, Get Out, and Moonlight show up in the sight and sound poll really made me cheer! portrait of a lady on fire at 30 sandwiched between Taxi Driver and 8 1/2 made me laugh out loud from sheer juxtaposition
— Skyy (@SolidShepard) December 1, 2022The thing about the Sight and Sound poll is to be excited about movies making it at all, not to complain about the ranking (because nobody sat down to do a top-100 ranking!)
Anyway I'm hyped GET OUT is on there
— Will (a ginger)! (@NotBenReilly) December 1, 2022you know i would have put Get Out on my Sight & Sound list twice if i could pic.twitter.com/Ic4F9HRnf7
— Confess, Brandon (@Thatoneguy64) December 1, 2022The two horror films currently sit at near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores, with Parasite at 99% and Get Out at 98%. Not too shabby for Jordan Peele’s directorial debut.
The only two other films from the past decade to make the poll’s cut were Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and Moonlight (2016). The 2022 Sight and Sound Poll was also the largest ever conducted, with 1639 ballots cast by critics, curators, and academics, per BFI.
There was cause for celebration with the top spot being taken out by a female-directed film for the first time in the poll’s history, a 1975 French film titled Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles from director Chantal Akerman.
Perhaps the results of the poll will help settle some of the debates the internet has been having about the greatest horror movie performances of all time.
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