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Letterboxd Reveals Top 10 Highest Rated Horror Films of 2016

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We’ve shared our Top 10s. We’ve shared YOUR Top 10. But what about EVERYONE’S Top 10?

There’s no better way to keep track of the movies you watch than through Letterboxd, a website devoted to chronicling “your life in film.” In addition to logging films watched, Letterboxd allows users to rate and even review those films, and based on the 1-through-5 star rating system, the site begins every year by looking back at the highest-rated films released in the previous year.

Letterboxd just posted their annual Year in Review, and we thought you might be interested to see which films dominated the Horror category. Again, these are the ten horror movies that were the highest rated by the thousands upon thousands of Letterboxd users throughout the year of 2016. In many ways, this can be considered the definitive ranking of 2016’s horror output.

The site explains:

We’ve spent the past couple of weeks compiling and fine-tuning the results, based on our community’s combined ratings as at January 1, 2017. As on the site, we differentiate between popular films (a measure of the amount of activity a film receives regardless of rating) and highly rated films. Rankings in the “Highest Rated” categories are based on the same weighted average used on the site (the ‘weighted’ part refers to a mechanism that ensures a more accurate average rating for films with a low number of ratings, and is based on the approach used by IMDb).

So then, what was the highest-rated horror film of 2016 on Letterboxd? That’d be Jeremy Saulnier’s unnerving and intense Green Room, which all of us here on Bloody Disgusting absolutely loved. In the #2 spot is South Korean film The Wailing, and the Top 5 is rounded out with The Witch, Train to Busan, and 10 Cloverfield Lane. The complete Top 10 can be seen below.

If you’re looking for some great recommendations, look no further!

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Jessica Rothe Keeps the Hope Alive for Third ‘Happy Death Day’ Movie

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It’s now been five years since the release of sequel Happy Death Day 2U, Christopher Landon’s sequel to the Groundhog Day-style slasher movie from 2017. Both films star Jessica Rothe as final girl Tree Gelbman, and director Christopher Landon had been planning on bringing the character – and the actor – back for a third installment. So… where is it?!

We’ve been talking about a potential Happy Death Day 3 for several years now, with the ball in producer Jason Blum’s court. Happy Death Day 2U scared up $64 million at the worldwide box office, a far cry from the first film’s $125 million. But with a reported production budget of just $9 million, that first sequel was profitable for Blumhouse. So again… where is it?!

Chatting with Screen Geek this week while promoting her new action-thriller Boy Kills World, franchise star Jessica Rothe provided a hopeful update on Happy Death Day 3.

Well, I can say Chris Landon has the whole thing figured out,” Rothe explains. “We just need to wait for Blumhouse and Universal to get their ducks in a row.

Rothe continues in her comments to Screen Geek, “But my fingers are so crossed. I think Tree [Gelbman] deserves her third and final chapter to bring that incredible character and franchise to a close or a new beginning.”

Back in 2020, Christopher Landon had revealed that the working title for the third installment was Happy Death Day to Us, said to be “different than the other two films.”

In the meantime, Christopher Landon is directing a mysterious thriller titled Drop for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes, along with a werewolf movie titled Big Bad for Lionsgate.

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