Was he a great big fat person?
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
i know it seems insane to say this at this point but i think that my plucky little ballot is not going to place very many more things. which is ok! i just think that like 90% of mine only had a shot in the bottom rungs - we'll see tho.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
(I made a promise to myself that I would avoid all editorializing that didn't involve puns until the results were entirely unveiled. It's KILLING me!)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahaaa
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
you can just email me a running log of them if you like
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Don't love seeing Cabin in the Woods here. Liked it a lot, but it's not a horror movie, right? There's nothing scary in it. Just icons of scare used for action & laughs & general smartness.
Love seeing Paranormal Activity here, though. The entire series is, to my constant surprise, top-notch. Interestingly, they are video-cam movies but work WAY better in a theater where you can hear every little tense whisper of white noise. Loses a lot of that through home viewing.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
The opening credits of 7eve7 looked like what would happen if you tried to make a flipbook animation using nothing but old copies of Raygun magazine.
― Troll 3 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
huh, thats interesting, because i never saw any of them in the theater, so maybe thats part of my sorta eh reaction to them. altho i stand by not liking 2, which felt a lot like those touchscreen bar games where you have to scan the screen to find whats different (oh shit did that chandelier just mov...oh nope) over and over again xpost
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
kinda surprised you put se7en above silence of the lambs, morbs. I find the latter to be a pretty charming and human film (has a lot to do w/ jodie foster's presence I guess), while se7en feels like a tale told by someone who listened to one too many NiN records.
plus silence of the lambs features the fall on the soundtrack so
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for either of them but SOTL at least made the shortlist
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Let's give 7e7e7 some credit: not a lot of us saw that box at the end coming. & Brad Pitt was never better than with that crew cut wrestling around with his dogs on the apartment floor.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Seven is the dark fairytale of the '90s that has some actual menace.
This movie totally belongs on this poll. I didn't think to vote for it, but it has as much or more horror in it than most serial killer movies. Very solid and well crafted. I never went back for a rewatch, though, because I felt that the droning unease seven evoked, which is it's strongest quality, would be lost in a repeat.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
seven is the only one of these that made my ballot so far ... i had my doubts about it being horror, though.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I don't remember much of anything about 777en aside from the overwhelming dudeliness of it
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Our next movie comes from the FAR EEK-ST, where at least SE7EN SAMURAI get ONIBBQ'ed!"
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92. ONIBABAKaneto Shindo, Japan, 1964(191 points, 7 votes)
“I’ve never seen anything really beautiful since the day I was born” is probably the only indispensable bit of dialogue in Kaneto Shindô’s 1964 horror classic Onibaba.Not Coming To A Theater Near You
Not Coming To A Theater Near You
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I could argue too strenuously that se7en is not a horror film. obv it's a police procedural but the crimes are designed to horrify, general feeling of unease and dread permeates, doesn't shy away from gory details, evil wins, etc. it ain't dirty harry.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
silence of the lambs is great, so's se7en. i'd vote for both in thriller poll, but like most responding here, i don't personally consider either "my kind of horror film".
that said, i agree that se7en belongs here, mostly due to it its massive and obvious influence on the saw franchise, "torture porn" and the cinematic vocabulary of 90s/00s horror in general. it's the godfather of distressed fonts & scratchy noises, grim and gritty filth pit mise-en-scene, and elaborate yet rusty torture implements.
agree w scott seward about the sensibility on display in fincher's early films, but i think se7en pulls it off. and SOTL is full of great performances.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
yay for art-snobbery i voted for onibaba.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
oniwhatwho
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yay Onibaba!
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
jjjusten it's good you should see it
onibaba my #40
I've told this story a couple times on ilx, but my first viewing of onibaba is colored by the memory of my wife walking in during the conclusion and observing "you watch some weird shit, man"
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
oh ha i just looked it up and i have walked past that film like 1000 times at my local library because i just assumed it was another 8 hour samurai epic
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
I never traced Saw et al back to 77777, but this seems pretty otm
― Troll 3 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
first thing I voted for that has placed. my #45. it's very grim. xp
― original bgm, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
itt thread a david fincher movie becomes a boredoms song
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Now hoping that having filled the word, stray 7s will start appear7ng in other posts throughout this t7read...
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
my queue grows
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
onibaba is a fairy tale told in a savagely brutal way, with beautiful cinematography. desperately in need of a blu-ray release.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/ink_prod/photos/0232/5254/n1208885751_30710694_785503.jpg
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
I never understood why ppl started writing the title as Se7en, fuck the credits.
Will endeavor to watch Onibaba when I have time (mebbe 3 years).
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
i have never seen onibaba. get it confused w kwaidan, which is lo7ely but rather dull.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
it's almost a given that art-house Japanese films from the early/mid 1960s have stunning cinematography ... the woman in the dunes (which i debated including on my ballot) is also stunning in that regard.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
i always confuse onibaba/kwaidan/jigoku. I've seen none of them.
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
I much prefer onibaba to kwaidan
― original bgm, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
"The CURSE of the CAT PEOPLE was the CURSE of BLOOD!"
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91. CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLEGunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise, USA, 1944(200 points, 5 votes)
did any other film of its era deal with a child's POV so effectively?― J.D., Friday, January 18, 2008 1:26 AM (4 years ago)I love Curse for many of the same reasons I love Night of the Hunter. It doesn't read as "horror" as well to those who didn't enjoy the thrill of horror as kids.― michael assbender (Eric H.), Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:40 PM (7 months ago)I really find it hard to believe that anyone prefers Curse to the original Cat People film.― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:40 AM (6 months ago)
I love Curse for many of the same reasons I love Night of the Hunter. It doesn't read as "horror" as well to those who didn't enjoy the thrill of horror as kids.― michael assbender (Eric H.), Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:40 PM (7 months ago)
I really find it hard to believe that anyone prefers Curse to the original Cat People film.― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:40 AM (6 months ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
i'm the opposite ... i prefer kwaidan to onibaba.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
Hip hip hooray for Onibaba. Great great film. The rustling grasses, the thundering storm, the cautionary tale of lust, the deep dark depths of the pit of despair.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
curse is a very good film, but i see it as more of a ghost-story than a horror film.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Got Onibaba around 2005, viewings since: 0. Places highly on my phantom list of "Sure favorites if i'd only come around to actually watch them". I feel a bit awkward having voted for (most probably) far inferior stuff in the lower ranks of my ballot for the sake of "not cheating".
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
onibaba goatse
I had never even heard of Onibaba until I went looking for source images for screencaps & found that literally every image I came across was some combination of beautiful, unnerving and haunted as fuck. It has since rocketed to the top of my list.
― Troll 3 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, grauschleier, I made sure to get around to a bunch of films on my similar list just before voting closed. Many of them make an appearance on my ballot.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
And SOTL and 7 both have Howard Shore scores which are very akin to one another. Shore's 7 music is perhaps even more amazingly black than his SOTL but unfortunately has never had a decent CD.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
(abandoned my horror ballot early on bc I realized I hadn't seen enough horror movies to warrant voting so now I'm just along for the ride...however this results thread is awesome and Eric H your PUNgent humour is CUTTING me up)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Wait, how are ghost stories not horror?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
i do regret that i only had one Val Lewton on my ballot ... and i am sure that the one i voted for will make it.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Both orig cat ppl movies remain HUGE gaps in my watching history. God I need to remedy that.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
― emil.y, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:56 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
b/c this is also a ghost story (and it's not a horror film):
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxNzk3NDQ3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODU3MjE0MQ@@._V1._SY317_CR5,0,214,317_.jpg
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Topper
xxxp
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
A broken image link? Chilling...
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link