25 Best Horror Films of the Past Decade

Would the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ever nominate a zombie comedy for best picture, director, actor, screenplay, cinematography, sound and score or, even better, award it the Oscar for best editing? It’s highly unlikely. But that’s what the Japanese Academy did for Shinichiro Ueda’s $27,000 indie movie about a director shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned warehouse where actual zombies come out to play. Is it scary? Not really, but it’s a horror-comedy about making a horror film that shocks, surprises, elicits plenty of laughs and spills a good deal of blood.

“A master class in endless narrative inventiveness and an ode to the resourceful and collaborative spirit of hands-on filmmaking, One Cut of the Dead amounts to an explosively hilarious rarity.” —Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times