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

it's all but guaranteed that most of his choices won't place

Somebody had the good sense to choose this as their #1! Not me, though.

thats ok! although i am glad that i got rec in here prob, and gave a boost to wolf creek xpost

anybody who's seen my ballot reveals on the ilm year end polls is prob familiar w/my general vote vs place ratio. in fact i'm sure i'll do better here than i do usually!

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87. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1944
(208 points, 8 votes)

The ending of The Seventh Victim is so [SPOLIER] depressing.
― Eric H: not a troll, with one exception (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:36 PM (6 years ago)

why did you have to go and tell us that it was DEPRESSING, now it's ruined!
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:59 PM (6 years ago)

I couldn't believe it when [SPOLIER] she walked with a zombie!
― Eric H: not a troll, with one exception (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:35 PM (6 years ago)

aargh I guess that's about a bazillion movies I have to see now

being remade btw

Mr Thnig and I watched this movie at like 6am iirc?

The lower-100s glut of Lewton seems to suggest what? Maybe voters felt obligated to honor Lewton even though true maniac love isn't there?

well he's got a higher hit rate than anybody else in the poll

I voted for it. I have no maniac love for the genre.

vote splitting prob as well

this one barely missed making it onto my ballot.

digging the possibility that lewton might be the most represented figure on this poll

The lower-100s glut of Lewton seems to suggest what? Maybe voters felt obligated to honor Lewton even though true maniac love isn't there?

that's sort of how i feel, tbh, and i do feel sort of bad about it, but i had to go with my heart here

I should watch I walked with a zombie again. was kinda turned off by the racist subtext when I was in lol college, but after all, it was lol college.

when I was all about SUBTEXT

Tourneur also directed what, for my money, is the scariest ep of Twilight Zone, "Night Call."

my #38. a beautiful, modest tone-poem of a film. not as easy to pull off as it sounds. see an interesting failure like Neither the Sea, Nor the Sand.

The Seventh Victim wasn't my #1 fwiw but I have true maniac love for it and other Lewtons including The Ghost Ship which wasn't nommed iirc.

jj, not sure my ballot will have any films you don't already know about. But I do keep a list of serial killer films (most stolen from Bill Krohn and most pre-Halloween) that I like so I can share those during the reveal if you want.

Are cat people, seventh victim & walked w/a zombie the best films produced by lewton? What should I see first?

The Seventh (lol "Se7enth") Victim is the only one w/ a #1 vote so far, right?

scarier than Mirror Image? Or the After Hours? or Five Characters in Search of an Exit? or Talkie Tina? gtfo

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I cut I Walked With a Zombie, I think - it's been a long time since I saw it, so couldn't remember many details, but what I do remember is very good.

I'm sure this list will, re Lewton, deliver the parallel to the comedy poll's "Wet Hot American Summer > all of Buster Keaton"

Yes! All those TZs are established classics, but the lesser-known Night Call is the only one to give me the oh-fucks.

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things I didn't know about lewton: responsible for my favorite scene in gone with the wind

Lewton also worked as an uncredited writer for Selznick’s Gone with the Wind, including writing the scene where the camera pulls back to reveal hundreds of wounded soldiers at the Atlanta depot.

The Seventh (lol "Se7enth") Victim is the only one w/ a #1 vote so far, right?

Dressed To Kill, also.

lol yeah that is a great scene in GWtW

I'm sure this list will, re Lewton, deliver the parallel to the comedy poll's "Wet Hot American Summer > all of Buster Keaton"

Morbs, I believe the phenomenon you describe is referred to colloquially as a "truth bomb".

you're the kind of low-rent komik who shd be doing Ghoulardi intros for these

Oh, what a BITING retort!

"night call" TZ-episode is the one where this dead guy calls his now-elderly girlfriend from the grave amirite?!?

A+

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Boris, yeah, that's it. Oh, Christ, the noises he makes over the phone...

i always reply to Haircare in VEIN!

you're the kind of low-rent komik who shd be doing Ghoulardi intros for these

Morbs, that's the sweetest thing anyone's said to me all week.

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eric how many are you rolling out today?

One more today. It's going to go 15-15-15-15-15-15-Top 10.

ok let's get this next lewton out of the way then

lol ed

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86. WITCHFINDER GENERAL [a.k.a. THE CONQUEROR WORM]
Michael Reeves, UK, 1968
(209 points, 10 votes)

i like Witchfinder General a fair bit but i'm not sure it has the mechanics of a horror film really. lots of cool cinematography. Reeves' film of the year before, The Sorcerers is better I think. weirder anyway.
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:57 PM (11 months ago)

I generally find Price too campy for my taste (Witchfinder General being the other exception)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 6, 2006 9:42 AM (6 years ago)

witchfinder general: another one that's been in my Netflix Instant queue since forever. is it like the masque of the red death (which i liked a lot but didn't vote for).

so far a fine mix of camp, kitsch, shlock, gore, crud, old people movies, and that's-not-really-horror

i mean this as a compliment. i think.

WG is nothing like the masque of the red death

I mean aside from vincent price

so far a fine mix of camp, kitsch, shlock, gore, crud, old people movies, and that's-not-really-horror

and some of these films are a mix of any or all of these categories!

subliminal/accidental Wishmaster ref there? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Wishmaster.jpg/225px-Wishmaster.jpg