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

Basically I'm feeling jjusten on this one. There is a feeling to me that Lynch on here (multiple times, especially) takes space from "real" horror films (even though that's a can of worms I can barely imagine containing) rather than films containing horror moments. Can films be horror films by sort-of accident? Open question.

also, i consider eraserhead and blue velvet to be as much comedy films as horror films ... so blah blah blah.

That might be a fun list: "Horror Films That Weren't Intended as Horror Films." (Potential nominee: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.)

i mean i'd argue carpenter, hooper, romero, craven, cronenberg, maybe even polanski and kubricks more central to modern horror-as-horror, but at the same time i dunno where else i'd slot lynch.

several films yet to place are unquestionably comedy and horror

eraserhead is one of the few movies I've seen that delivers oodles of heebie-jeebies and actual hair-standing-on-end sensations.

I didn't vote straight "movies that frighten or terrify" but that was definitely a factor, because there have been so few that have successfully affected me this way

eraserhead also delivers laughs (I think intentionally) but that doesn't disqualify it for me

delivering laughs is a non-issue for me, some of the best horror movies of the 80s were also comedies

Sybil!
http://www.caringforourchildrenfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/0d815_article-2049789-0E66491200000578-56_468x286.jpg

I just want to put in an early fingers-crossed for Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Surely we can all agree on that, right?

I guess I've said it so many times that I shouldn't continue hitting my head against this wall, but the next time someone suggests Eraserhead is not a horror film I'm gonna scream and scream until I'm sick.

I think the ambiguity of Hanging Rock in a way is what makes it horror (though admittedly of a ruminative sort). The lack of resolution, all of the things implied but unsaid.

I totally agree with this, but I'm still unsure about whether it is *enough* to make it fully-fledged as a horror.

picnic was my number 2. can obv see how many wouldn't consider it horror but for me 'uncanny' and 'weird' are up there with 'terror' and 'horror' as what i want from a horror film. once i'd decided to consider it a horror i had to place it high. xp. i voted jessica, i can't see it not placing either. zohra lampert is fascinating in it.

"Between three to five CHILLING tales, each more BONE-DRYING and EYE-PRESENTING than the last!"

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5236/7211432976_22370b1e42_o.jpg

82. KWAIDAN
Shigeru Wakatsuki, Japan, 1964
(224 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Not a big Kwaidan fan. Lovely but rather inert, imo.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:09 PM (4 weeks ago)

Takemitsu's score for Kwaidan is the only soundtrack that is, to me, genuinely scary in the context — especially during "The Black Hair" segment when all sound drops out but the music.
― Daruton, Wednesday, December 2, 2009 6:24 PM (2 years ago)

there are enough oddities popping up in the list that I still hold out hope for jessica and some other offbeat picks

not a big kwaidan fan. it's not bad but the appeal was lost on me.

would've liked to see onibaba place above kwaidan but apparently it doesn't have a very high profile considering some of the responses when it did place

yay i picked kwaidan -- placed it high on my ballot, too.

gah. OK FINE I WILL SEE KWAIDAN TOO

i like lets scare jessica a lot but i am not so sure its going to place

By the by, I've always described I Can See You (Graham Reznick, 2008) as "Blair Witch directed by David Lynch" so that film might be of interest to some of you. xpost

a certain poster here will retch, but "the woman in the snow" portion of kwaidan works in a similar way to hausu (e.g., the almost exaggeratedly artificial backgrounds and colors).

this was my #7

Near Dark was #12

huh i havent seen I Can See You, and its on netflix instant!

'I Can See You' is really well done, excellently paced. Would like to see more of his stuff.

given breaking necrology news, I think we may lose the Cryptkeeper for the day (and I will have to stay out of gay bars for at least a week)

cryptkeeper is cryptic

donna summer just died ... to dispel the crypticism here.

oh no!

WHAT

She was the Crypt-Keeper's all-time jam, but the poll will soldier on.

(and I will have to stay out of gay bars for at least a week)

Or forever.

ok re-reading a bunch of things there you will all be glad that i am now actively rooting for eraserhead to place soon, because i have the yawning fear that it could make top ten or possibly number one. C'mon Eraserhead! place in the next few days, i know you can do it!

jjjusten I think yr fear that Lynch will place more movies than any other director is kind of unfounded

Yeah, we haven't even gotten to the Uwe Boll ouvre yet.

NIT-PICKING:

Uh, Maskai Kobayashi directed Kwaidan - Wakatsuki was the producer.

to further nitpick, MaSAKi Kobayashi (not Maskai).

never heard of Kwaidan. comments don't make it sound appealing, apart from the Takemitsu score. love that guy.

Typed too fast!

I love it, that's all you need to know SMC

two for me so far today, near dark and kwaidan.

i'd be totally okay with eraserhead top tenning.

it's four stories, of various lengths. more like ugetsu in that each of the four stories are ghost stories and are heavier on atmospherics and suspense than "horror" per se. personal favorite is the second story -- "the woman in the snow" -- which features some rather striking backgrounds and use of color:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PM1ZKIZPNOM/TLHBlNCmXcI/AAAAAAAADDA/ikkncDw0FmA/s1600/kwaidan-10c-web.jpg

http://www.2012movies.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/kwaidan-400-x-300.jpg

http://ferdyonfilms.com/kwaidan%206.jpeg

more like ugetsu than onibaba, i meant.

Yeah, I agree with the quotidian-defenders on that count. While I may prefer an ambiguous line, if you're going to break through the ambiguity then banality of evil is much scarier to me than spooky superpowered evil.

― emil.y, Thursday, May 17, 2012 5:46 AM (3 hours ago)

catching up here, but no way! quotidian horror (stabby man, crazy brain, dark conspiracy, etc) will always be a pale shadow of real, supernatural, spookshow shit. give me ghosts, witches, devils, draculas and backwards dwarfs every time.

there are exceptions (wicker man yay), but mostly i want the beyond, not the here and now

I prefer ghosty spooks to stabby man horror, actually. But I like crazy brain and futility of humanity horror the best.

Stabby man is probably my least favourite form of horror, now I think about it.

xxpost

It depends. The Descent worked beautifully in its first half, when it was dealing with concrete and realistic terror. And then it fell apart once it introduced the moleman heebie-jeebers.

maybe this is a thread/poll of its own, but which of the following canonical supernatural spookshow shit is the scariest to each of you?

ghosts
witches
devils
elves/faeries
vampires
werewolves
possessions
lots of others that i've forgotten...

because for me, the scariest is always gonna be not entirely explain-awayable ghosts/possessions first, followed by witches, devils, etc, in inverse order of plausibility.

Ditto Jeepers Creepers. Really great while they were being harassed on the road, Duel-style. Turns to poop after monster reveal. xpost

ghosts have a versatility that none of the others do, but although it isnt on the list, theres a lot that can be done w/zombies

The Descent worked beautifully in its first half, when it was dealing with concrete and realistic terror. And then it fell apart once it introduced the moleman heebie-jeebers.

Totally agree. I was really annoyed when the silly monsters showed up.

I don't really find any horror trope intrinsically scary, it's more about how it's depicted