The Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread

blow out was more of a political thriller ... though Lithgow was pretty creepy, as was the final scene w/ Travolta listening to Nancy Allen's final screams on a walkman.

watched Dressed to Kill earlier this year actually (after seeing it on TV as a kid lol) - really fun, Dickinson is awesome, Caine is good, the elevator attack is nightmarish.

Yeah it's a joyride. Almost as much a send-up of Hitchcock as an homage.

whoa average curse of the cat people vote was 40 points

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:07 PM (16 minutes ago)

yeah, high passion score there

vacillated endlessly on dressed to kill. i really wanted to vote for more than one de palma film, but it wound up being one of my last two cuts. like the silence of the lambs and se7en, i just feel that it's more a dark, erotic mystery thriller than a horror film.

i'm not sure why i exclude DTK when i made room for the likes of repulsion and psycho though. perhaps because those films really pushed at the boundaries of what a "scary movie" could do in their day, and focus so intently on ghoulishness and creepy atmosphere. a line so fine it vanishes on close examination, but i'm nevertheless happy with my decision.

blow out is a straight political thriller, without even DTK's black-gloved, stalk-and-slash giallo trappings, and body double is a romantic, melodramatic thriller that owes a huge debt to vertigo. it's only got one real horror-style moment (but what a moment it is).

just perused my ballot, but it looks like i left off onibaba ... i thought that i had voted for it, but apparently not.

huh, dressed to kill? really? i am thinking that i am operating on a very different definition of horror here than lots of other people

My fave things in DtK are the museum sequence, the wacky but relevant STD thing, and maybe Keith Gordon. You can p much have the rest of it.

whoa average curse of the cat people vote was 40 points
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:07 PM (16 minutes ago)

yeah, high passion score there
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:27 PM (6 minutes ago)

Don't have the numbers in front of me atm, so I'm not sure if COTCP wins the Passiondex for the whole top 100 or not. I will say that it's the only movie in the whole list that got in with less than six votes.

As a 13-year-old boy I had teh major hots for Nancy Allen.

That STD thing is one of cinema's great punchlines.

Morbius--not sure about RKO. The same people who mucked around with Ambersons, probably.

Fantastic image choice for Dressed to Kill.

Also in look7ng back at my ballot I actually voted for Se7en, so. At least two weeks ago I though7 it was horror.

just an aside, but if paranormal activity makes it in this countdown and blair witch doesnt i am going to shake my head at yall so hard that its going to fall off

Fantastic image choice for Dressed to Kill.

There really was no other choice imo. It's such an instantly iconic image.

Morbz OTM about the museum sequence

just an aside, but if paranormal activity makes it in this countdown and blair witch doesnt i am going to shake my head at yall so hard that its going to fall off

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. Doubt that'll happen tho

oh btw i will join in the chorus abt how awesome the stills are, but lets not forget the cryptkeeper business that eric is doing here which is also a+++

btw has Michael Caine ever been worse?

btw has Michael Caine ever been worse?

Talk about releasing the Kraken.

It's such an instantly iconic image.

I can almost tangibly remember my sense of awe when I saw the film for the first time and that image materialized--it really is a thing of beauty.

Michael Caine was also in Stallone's remake of get carter, which was awful.

My memory of Curse of the Cat People is of a fairly gentle film with a lot of wonder. Seeing its placement here, I'm going to assume The Seventh Victim is coming up, or else you're all gonna get it.

ha the fact that the top three known for results wrt michael caine on imdb are the dark knight, batman begins, and the prestige is just so painful to me

i did not vote for any lewton (more on that later) but if i had 7th victim would have been my choice for sure

some people just want to watch the world burn, and all that

obv michael caines finest moments are either in austin powers goldmember or as a voice in gnomeo and juliet or cars 2. looking at this list, jesus the man sure likes a paycheck

scotch costs money

blame it on rio bro

he's a higher-rent Christopher Walken in that regard, then!

Also, I like how your image card notes that DTK had a first-place vote. Nice touch.

"Keep an EYE on that rear-VIEW mirror! ... Oh shit, I'm thinking of HOSTEL. Um ... I'm sure contenderizer will HOWL over our next gristly selection!"

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89. WOLF CREEK
Greg McLean, Australia, 2005
(205 points, 7 votes)

Wolf Creek was a steaming pile of shit. Boring, badly made, not even remotely shocking. (nb: I quit watching the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre right after the first murders because it was boring me to tears)
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:51 PM (6 years ago)

then your opinion is invalid.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:51 PM (6 years ago)

Wolf Creek was like Hostel only it replaced the National Lampoon's Amsterdam Vacation with Slow Arty Indie Film With Stunning Cinematography/low-brow comedy with beautiful landscapes. FWIW I loved both of them.
― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:55 PM (5 years ago)

have somehow managed to avoid seeing wolf creek

it's really well done, just not my kinda thing

will take this opportunity to join the choir of thanks and praise to pillbox for these badass illustrations ("screencaps" seems insufficient)

every time I scroll past wolf creek screengrab I think killer say hi to me

wolf creek = another one that i haven't even heard of, much less watched.

Wolf Creek is fantastic, rises above lots of the modern gritty stuff with a real legit core-hitting menace.

Bitch, you made me vote in this for the express purpose of olding things up and you didn't vote any Lewton?

I had my reasons! I swear!

Never seen it, always heard it was solid. Has me wondering how high The Strangers will place.

Wolf Creek is the epitome of the kind of movie I hate to admire. I guess that means it is performing a time-honored and vital role in the genre. OK, yes, I think I just convinced myself it belongs on this list in spite/because of my objections to it. I mean, it's horror!

How long are you going to keep your ballot's secret a secret, jjjusten?

it certainly belongs on this list. i didn't vote for it cuz i don't like it much (though i do admire it).

eleven down, and not one that made it onto my ballot. screen-cap cards are truly gorgeous, Pillbox. running SCARE-ation is sidesplitting, E.

thanks contenderizer, but w/ few exceptions, the images are all legit screencaps. I formatted them against a template for reasons of consistency, info display & such, but I've actually been fairly particular about not using anything for the central imagery other than actual film stills, screengrabs and what not.

Wolf Creek was a steaming pile of shit. Boring, badly made, not even remotely shocking. (nb: I quit watching the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre right after the first murders because it was boring me to tears)
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:51 PM (6 years ago)

this quote is interesting to me because i think it gets at a lot of where i go wrt modern horror (in a very reverso backwards way) - the stuff that tries to hit that TCM mix of dread and hopelessness is where its at. wolf creek is very very much a TCM for now.

would agree w that. not as punk/lo-fi, but similar in spirit. prefer TCM though.

I like Wolf Creek, btw, and I voted for it here, but I'm not sure I could explain WHY I like it w/o sounding like a depraved sociopath. Then again, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is my favorite of all time & I'm hard pressed to explain that half of the time even.

think wolf creek is the first thing here to make my ballot

eric this is wonderful so far btw, thank you

ok fine i'll spill my ballot thing - because of my worry that modern horror was going to get unfairly snubbed in favor of 70s 80s and 90s stuff, i only allowed myself 10 spots from before the year 2000. recruiting kjb to vote was largely because i knew i could hedge my bets on all of the older stuff i love that way. also because i greedily want to pillage his ballot for all the awesome stuff i havent seen yet.