The 1953 film War of the Worlds and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs is the latest genre pic to be added to the National Film Registry.
This year, The Silence of the Lambs and War of the Worlds are joined by Bambi, Forest Gump, Faces, El Mariachi, The Big Heat and others. For a complete list, follow this link.
The National Film Registry is already populated by other genre pics like The Exorcist, The Invisible Man, Dracula, Frankenstein, Halloween, Psycho, Cat People, Freaks, Bride of Frankenstein, The Thing from Another World, Alien and Night of the Living Dead.
Source: Library of Congress
