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From the depths of a disastrous shoot swam "Jaws," and the rest was history.

Recent movies' low box-offices grosses have the ring of a death knell. Are audiences just tired of X-Men movies?

With a little more than two weeks left until the big night itself, we've compiled a list of 31 recommended horror movies that, we hope, includes something for everyone, from the easily scared to the most jaded horror lover.

Two decades later, they still shine, if only a little less bright than a diamond necklace dropped to the bottom of the ocean.

Nothing about "24 Hours To Live" is going to set the world on fire — or even give it a good rug burn, really — but it's a decent method of passing the time. An action-thriller with a pulse, you might say, if you were looking for a way to offer faint praise.

For about as long as there have been movies, there have been special effects. That's no exaggeration: The medium was only a few years old when people began finding ways to toy with the reality of what the motion-picture camera was capturing, creating tricks from quirks in photographic science.