Tales From The ILX Top 100 Horror Movies Poll Discussion/Nominations Thread

voting hasn't opened yet. eric's extended nominations through the weekend (i think) and (i think) he said that he'd start the voting thread on monday. assume it will contain instructions whenever it does appear.

Yep. Letting everyone take the chance to see Cabin in the Woods this weekend before opening voting period.

I've got a provisional list of 27 or 28. I have realized that, as I struggle to finish watching Martin--I started last weekend, and have interrupted it with three other films--this ship has sailed for me, and I'm going to mostly vote for things I liked 30 years ago. I can't stand gore anymore, and that's just too central to much of the genre going forward from the late '60s.

I for one have no problem with you voting for older gore-less films if that's what you like in the genre. I do think you're doing a disservice to a number of later films that bypass the gore, but at the same time, it's fairly indisputable that horror films have become more explicit as a rule.

You're right--I'm sure I've missed some stuff the past couple of decades I'd like. The older films I'll be voting for won't be entirely goreless, although by today's standards, Night of the Living Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are pretty mild (though not in terms of psychological intensity, I'd argue).

Tourneur, Whale ftw

I will be thrilled to see Tourneur alongside Inside alongside Dreyer alongside The Brood.

I'm gonna exercise some futility here and nominate Hopital Brut despite its obscurity and the fact that the few people who've actually seen it probably wouldn't label it a horror film.

Is that the crazy French animation by Le Dernier Cri collective?

Yeah, that's the one.

I took part in a live soundtracking of it once, I remember nothing of the film as I was too busy trying to work out what to play.

Anyway, if we can have Apaches as a nomination then we can have The Finishing Line too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slJyhOEo-SY

Late to the upthread discussion of David Lynch, but in thinking about it it's hard for me to figure out how many of his movies I'd consider "horror" in some way. Definitely Inland Empire, which seems to be all about different varieties of fear and dread. Certainly as much a horror film as, say, Repulsion. Eraserhead is a kind of parental-horror monster movie, in the same way The Brood is (if less easily categorized as a genre work). Beyond that I think it's more slippery. There's terrifying moments in Mulholland Drive, FWWM, and Lost Highway, but I wouldn't call them "horror movies." (And wouldn't vote for Lost Highway anyway because I don't like it much.)

Anyway, I'll save slots for Inland Empire and Eraserhead on my ballot (maybe -- depends how many votes we get). Wouldn't vote for the others, but I won't argue with anyone who does. For all the ridiculousness and namecalling they often entail, I like the arguments in these polls over what counts (as comedy, or spec fic, or whatever). I prefer looser boundaries to more puritanical ones, I think it opens up the conversation.

Yeah, that pretty well sums up my feelings on Lynch w/r/t this poll. Except that I would also like to nominate:

The Grandmother

Letting everyone take the chance to see Cabin in the Woods this weekend before opening voting period.

hoping to see it today!

I would nominate the Godzilla-esque Cthulu movie which probably only exists in my head but which has no good reason to not exist.

this is not that movie, but...

The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

Anyone seen 'A Quiet Place in the Country'? Ramdomly came across:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place_in_the_Country

I am also planning on seeing the cabin in the woods tonight.

I have a serious soft spot for that call of Cthulhu movie

I kind of want to see Cabin in the Woods even though it would probably fuck me up

it's good! go see it. scary enough, kinda gory in places, but nothing that'll scar you for life.

Earlier today I looked over at my DVDs and noticed one on top, still shrink-wrapped. At some point in the last 6 months, I bought two-movie DVD of Frirestarter and Firestarter 2, but I have no memory of it at all.

Firestarter isn't that good, but it holds enormous sentimental value for me. I had a huge, huge crush on Drew Barrymore (???) and I also wanted to be her in that movie (and later when she became a wild child). It might make my ballot for that reason alone.

Firestarter had a pretty good soundtrack by Tangerine Dream too

Wow, lots of names in it, too.

Why doesn't he just push the taxi driver to make him go to the airport instead of pushing him to make him believe he's given him a $500 bill? Makes no sense.

easier to push someone to believe something pleasant than to do something against their will? iirc pushing ppl takes a lot out of him so it makes sense for him to take the path of least resistance.

It's funny that he pushed a pay phone into giving up its quarters. Ha.

Anyone seen 'A Quiet Place in the Country'? Ramdomly came across:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place_in_the_Country

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, April 14, 2012 4:37 PM (Yesterday)

lol this is on my list of 50 films to watch, along with popular classics like symptoms, killer's moon, don't go in the house, and the '81 nightmare.

yeah, who exactly is he pushing there, ma bell?

xp

ties into maximum overdrive, right? king treating inanimate mechanical devices as things with minds of a sort.

Edward - lol, it is on youtube no subs but a cracking score from Morricone (from the excerpts).

ok if you guys nommed thundercrack in the comedy poll I'm nomming the devil inside her (1977) here

el dia de la bestia aka the day of the beast (1995)

i nominated Thundercrack! but have never seen The Devil Inside Her. Any good?

love Day of the Beast though. might even vote for it.

devil inside her is horrifying on a couple diff levels, def more horrifying than erotic. the marc loi in you might object tho? (no shots fired)

think I'll save my dark horse agitating for the voting thread

the marc loi in you might object tho? (no shots fired)

lol, no worries. i've avoided the shaun costello & zebedy colt 70s roughies, mostly due to presumed rapeyness.

OK, last call for nominations. Will open the poll for ballots a little later today.

Wtf, this wasn't nominated yet?

Troll 2

I didn't want to vote for it in the comedy poll, because I decided to exclude unintentional comedies, but it certainly was intended to be a horror movie.

It's either a great comedy or a rotten horror movie.

I may just give Troll 2 one point on every poll.

turner classic movies held a film festival last weekend in hollywood with a midnight screening of phase iv on friday, kinda funny to see it positioned among the likes of singing in the rain, the searchers, and vertigo...

http://www.tcm.com/festival/programs/481842/index.html

tbh it's been years and years since I've seen devil inside her, iirc there's one troubling sequence but the rest is pretty standard stuff for the time, albeit dressed up in disturbing facepaint

xp to contendo

last wave, the (1977)

^ weird that classics like this are still getting nommed, down to the wire and we're still missing good stuff but ah well

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