Cinema Blend is one of several sources reporting on the latest class of films being inducted into the archives by the National Film Registry. The 2008 class boasts yet another diverse group of films, but notably this year is a few big names that many horror fans will be aware of, and perhaps approve of. The biggest of the ‘mainstream’ inductees is no doubt The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger has managed to make his role as a killing machine into one that the Film Registry hopes to preserve for posterity. The selection is one which some might find interesting, especially those of us who have cited Terminator 2 as superior to Terminator, but we still approve that a mainstream action film gets the nod. Equally true, the realistic and harrowing tale of a group of friends lost in the wilderness in Deliverance is also an inductee. The Hollywood Reporter has a more complete list.

The list with some of the descriptions can be viewed here. In addition to the two greats mentioned, early horror movie The Invisible Man and the Harryhausen film “7th Voyage of Sinbad” have all been included in the group inducted into the archive. The choices are all so diverse that there seems to be no real pattern to the subject matter. When you have films ranging from World War II footage to short home-made films to early silent films, you know there is room for all manner of diversity, and every year more opportunities come for the great horror films and other action classics to get their share of the credit that is going around. There is only one real question left to be asked of the selection process. Where is Uwe Boll?