what are some surprising B and horror films siskel and ebert liked that surprised you

[Faust]

I recently saw an old clip where they were talking about Carnosaur Siskel to my astonishment really enjoyed it for it's absurdity and praised it for it's goofiness. There was also a clip where they liked critters or at least one of them did. Also Siskel enjoyed Shocker I didn't care for it at all but he said he gave it a marginal thumbs up. Roger Ebert liked Candyman thought it was a great grounded horror film while siskel liked parts of it. Ebert also wrote a three star review for devils rejects and later got flak from some people because he liked it. What other ones surprised you?

[Lon of the Dead]

I recently commented on an article on Ebert.com that Roger was often wrongly accused of being anti-horror, based almost entirely on an episode of At the Movies he and Siskel did about "women in peril" movies (or what we fans call slasher movies). Neither had any love for slasher flicks back in the day, but Ebert was the one of the very first, and very few, major, mainstream film critics who wouldn't hesitate to praise a horror film he felt genuinely deserved it. Some horror films he gave stellar reviews to were Psycho, Halloween, Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead (actually his Night review was more a response to the horrified audience's reaction; years later he gave it a proper review and rated it 3 and 1/2 stars).

Siskel, on the other hand, was a bit of an odd duck when it came to horror movies. In most cases he portrayed a clear bias against them; in others, he improbably gave positive reviews to a number of films so mediocre even the most forgiving genre fan wouldn't bother sitting all the way through. As such, I never really paid attention to Siskel's horror reviews. But he did have great taste in indie drama flicks.

Anyway, here are some other horror flicks I recall Ebert giving positive reviews to. Some of them he even included in his elite "Great Movies" category.

The Relic
Scream 1 and 2
Anaconda
The Devil's Rejects
Motel Hell
Evil Dead 2 (I don't think he reviewed the first one)
Re-Animator
Childs Play
Fright Night
Peeping Tom
Psycho III
The Blair Witch Project
Alien
The Silence of the Lambs
Dead Rising
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Last House on the Left (original)
Dawn of the Dead '04
Friday the 13th '09 (oddly, he bombed the two or three flicks he reviewed from the original series)
The Dead Zone
Rosemary's Baby
Don't Look Now
Carrie

There are tons more but these are the first to immediately spring to mind.

[Faust]

Cool thanks for that list I been going back and watching some of their reviews on youtube. There is a Evil Dead review on their and they both kinda gave mixed reactions to it, Anaconda is a pretty sweet jungle adventure film. I did not know he reviewed Friday the 13th 09 will have to check out his review

[Alaric De Marnac]

He said that Friday the 13th '09 was the best one they could possibly make.