Eighteenth Anniversary
As part of its 18th birthday issue published in June 2007 Empire published a list of top 18-rated moments in film. This list is as follows:
- Alien – Dinner chestburster
- The Omen – Glass decapitation
- An American Werewolf in London – Wolf transformation
- The Exorcist – Crucifix abuse
- Risky Business – Ready Ralph?
- Reservoir Dogs – Mr. Blonde slashing the face of Marvin the cop
- Blue Velvet – Karaoke from Hell
They also picked the top 50 18-rated movies
- The Godfather
- Pulp Fiction
- Alien
- Goodfellas
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Fight Club
- The Big Lebowski
- Evil Dead II
- Die Hard
- Get Carter
- Peeping Tom
- Dawn of the Dead
- Hard Boiled
- A Clockwork Orange
- An American Werewolf in London
- Audition
- Risky Business
- Dirty Harry
- The Omen
- City of God
- Magnolia
- Midnight Cowboy
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Thing
- Aliens
- Apocalypse Now
- Seven
- Blue Velvet
- The Fly
- Braindead
- The Exorcist
- Reservoir Dogs
- Taxi Driver
- Clerks
- Halloween
- Predator
- Do the Right Thing
- Trainspotting
- The Shining
- Kill Bill: Volume 1
- The Wild Bunch
- Suspiria
- Oldboy
- Sin City
- L.A. Confidential
- Angel Heart
- RoboCop
- Mad Max 2
Read more about this topic: Empire (film magazine)
Famous quotes containing the words eighteenth and/or anniversary:
“Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
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