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

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?!?

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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

"Nothing restarts my heart as much as watching Vincent PRISS camp it up! He can CONQUER my WORM any day of the DEAD! Work those cute long locks, Miss THE THING!"

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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

lol @ witchmaster general

budget cuts forced merge w/ the postal service

we deliver the mail, and take away yr witches

i liked vincent price's i am legend/omega man flick more than either the Charlton Heston or Will Smith ones, so that's something in his favor.

I generally prefer things-that-can-happen horror.

(not always by any means)

the reason witchfinder general didn't make my ballot was that it's difficult to justify as a horror film, aside from the proto-torture porn trappings

To recap:

086. Witchfinder General aka The Conqueror Worm [1968, 209 points, 10 votes]
087. I Walked with a Zombie [1943, 208 points, 8 votes]
088. The Seventh Victim [1943, 206 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote]
089. Wolf Creek [2005, 205 points, 7 votes]
090. Dressed To Kill [1980, 202 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote]
091. Curse of the Cat People [1944, 200 points, 5 votes]
092. Onibaba [1964, 191 points, 7 votes]
093. Se7en [1995, 189 points, 10 votes]
094. Paranormal Activity [2007, 189 points, 7 votes]
095. The Cabin in the Woods [2012, 189 points, 6 votes]
096. May [2002, 186 points, 8 votes]
097. [rec] [2007, 178 points, 7 votes]
098. Blood on Satan's Claw aka Satan's Skin [1971, 177 points, 8 votes]
099. Pontypool [2008, 176 points, 7 votes]
100. Phantasm [1979, 175 points, 8 votes]

34 point spread from 100 to 86 is pretty tightly packed!

2-for-15 so far ... i feel like a Phillies slugger this season ;_;

wow, 9/15 from the 20th century.

Really strong opening 15, though still a little ?huh? to see Cabin in the Woods in there.

3/15 for me (rec, seven, wolf creek)

well now what do i do with the rest of my supposed work day

lol @ the battles between price and reeves on the set of WG

The production went relatively smoothly except for the unrelentingly antagonistic relationship that developed between Reeves and Price. Reeves kept it no secret from everyone associated with the production that the American actor was not his choice for the role, and the director's comments had reached the actor back in the U.S. Reeves refused the courtesy of meeting Price at London Heathrow Airport when he arrived in England, a "deliberate snub calculated to offend both Price and AIP."[6] "Take me to your goddamn young genius," Price reportedly said to co-producer Philip Waddilove, who greeted the actor at the airport instead of Reeves.[13] When Price went on location and met Reeves for the first time, the young director told the actor, "I didn't want you, and I still don't want you, but I'm stuck with you!"[6]

According to Kim Newman in his book, Nightmare Movies, when Reeves made a suggestion on the set, Price objected and told the director: "I've made 87 [sic] films. What have you done?" And Reeves responded: "I've made three good ones."[14] "Reeves hated me," Price later recalled. "He didn't want me at all for the part. I didn't like him, either. It was one of the first times in my life that I've been in a picture where the director and I just clashed."[15] Price felt that all the actors on the set had a difficult time with the director, explaining: "Michael Reeves could not communicate with actors. He would stop me and say, 'Don't move your head like that.' And I would say, 'Like what? What do you mean?' He'd say, 'There — you're doing it again. Don't do that'." Price reportedly became so upset with Reeves that he refused to watch the film's dailies.[13]

In one scene, Reeves needed Price to shoot his flintlock between the ears of the horse he was riding. When Price realized that Reeves had ordered that an actual blank charge was to be used so the weapon's puff of smoke would be visible, he immediately shouted, "What? You want the gun to go bang between the ears of this fucking nag? How do you think he's going to react?" However, Reeves insisted and, when the gun went off, the horse reared and sent Price tumbling onto the ground. Price was not hurt but he was extremely angered by the incident.[6]

On the final day of shooting, Price showed up on the set visibly drunk. Reeves seethed to Waddilove, "He's drunk–how dare he be drunk on my set! I'll kill the bastard." Waddilove soon discovered that Reeves planned to inflict painful revenge on the actor. During preparations for Price's violent death scene, the director was overheard instructing Ogilvy to "really lay into Vincent" with the stage axe. Although when the scene was filmed Ogilvy indeed responded with blows that were not faked, Waddilove had earlier found some foam padding and fitted Price's costume with it, protecting the actor from any injury.[6]

Two I voted for, three I've seen, and a whole lot that I've heard little-to-nothing about (if I've even heard of them at all). Just the sort of interesting, non-canonical results I was hoping for!

donald pleasence was reeves' original pick for vincent price's role, man what a different movie that would've been

and yeah thats a pretty good list so far, only a few things i cant get behind entirely, and another thing that well we all know by now my thoughts on it so why bother

4/15 for me-Blood on Satan's Claw, Onibaba, The Seventh Victim, I Walked with a Zombie (which I THINK I voted for, anyway)

but how do you feel about pontypool

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