Following my plug of The Haunting, a reader points out that Martin Scorsese puts the movie at the top of his scariest-movies list.

E-mailbag:

What the top 100 list really tells us is that there are about 50 good horror movies total. Slim pickings.

And:

for my money, both Psycho and The Shining are contenders for #1, way ahead of the dated and rather silly Exorcist. my nomination? without question, takashi miike’s Audition.
for what it’s worth, i don’t think there ARE 100 horror films worth compiling into a list.