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13 April 2012 7:38 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

Today sees the opening of "The Cabin In The Woods," one of the freshest, most enjoyable horror movies in years, one that we can only urge you to go see (read our review here). To mark its release, Time Out have polled critics, programmers and filmmakers as to their favorite horror movies, and collated their finds in a mammoth list.

Topped by "The Exorcist," it's an excellent read, and one you'll want to sit down with over the weekend, and as a taste, below you can find the top ten picks of ten of the most notable filmmaker contributors. You can find the full list, as well as picks from many, many more interesting figures, from Antonio Campos and Joe Dante to Simon Pegg and Rob Zombie, over at Time Out's site. And why not weigh in with your own ten picks over in the comments below?

Roger Corman ("The Pit & The Pendulum, »

- Oliver Lyttelton

2 April 2012 4:05 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »

It’s time to spring forward, as the saying goes. What daylight savings actually saves is beyond me. Just another way of making me wake up earlier than sunrise. Twisting time has worked a whole lot better in crime cinema.

I’m not talking about the usual flashbacks mysteries throw in to pad their plot and shoehorn in some exposition. Plenty of crime film breaks the laws of quantum physics as blatantly as they do federal and state statutes. A handful manage to pull it off with style.

From crime movies that turn the clock on its head, rewind it and overlap it, or downright melt its face right off, these are 12 Time-Twisted Crime Films.

12. The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects were anything but when it first came out, using a shifty narrator to bend the audience’s perception of events. Told piecemeal by the sole survivor of a disastrous shipboard robbery, »

- Matthew C. Funk

2 items from 2012