There’s no doubt as to which film is more commonly recognized as a cinematic milestone.

Alas, his horror masterpieces were rarely recognized.

11’Rosemary’s Baby' (1968)

41st Academy Award Winner: ‘Oliver!’

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Modern audiences are quick to toutThe Shiningas one of the greatest movies of all time, horror or otherwise.

However, the Academy snubbed it entirely, refusing to nominate its performances or directing.

Onlywith the hindsight of the modern era can one conclude thatThe Thingmost definitely deserved Best Picture more thanGandhi.

Dracula lurks in the shadows in the 1933 film.

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Kong towering over the city and a helicopter in 1933 King Kong

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A group of characters looking curiously at something off-camera in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Melanie inside a phone booth while birds fly outside in The Birds

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Mia Farrow as Rosemary peeking into the baby’s cradle, scared in Rosemary’s Baby

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Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil staring at the camera in ‘The Exorcist’

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Several people gathered around a man lying on a table in the film Alien

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Jack says “Here’s Johnny” through a door in ‘The Shining’ (1980)

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The creature appearing as Norris' (Charles Hallahan) head in The Thing

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A hand coming out of a man’s mouth in Society

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