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

n/a, remind me -- how did the protagonist piss off truck driver? Did he cut him off or something?

(except his boots i think)

yeah iirc he cuts him off

apparently (per wikipedia) he just passes the trucker a couple of times?

So it's almost like he doesn't really piss him off, and more like the truck driver just chooses him at random to fuck with? Which is even better.

I voted for OG Nosferatu but not Herzog's. I was trying to avoid too many instances of both a movie and its remake on my ballot.

Herzog's "Nosferatu" blew me away the first time I saw i, due in large part to the Popol Vuh score. One of the most hard-hitting moments was the long shot of the ship with the music just sort of droning on in the bleakest fashion; it seemed so profound and hopeless.

apparently (per wikipedia) he just passes the trucker a couple of times?

yeah, that's it as far as i remember.

the same wikipedia entry says the truck has multiple license plates on it which spielberg apparently meant as a subtle suggestion that the trucker had randomly killed people in other states

duel is just the facts. the facts being this guy FOR NO REASON will fuck with you WHEREVER YOU GO until he ENDING SPOILER drives off a cliff

my favorite scene is MASSIVE SPOILER the panic at the school bus, followed up by the kindly assist form the deranged stalker truck. WHO'S IN YOUR HEAD NOW MUSTACHE GUY WITH BRIEFCASE?

The recent Reverse Shot essay on Duel is really, really, good: http://reverseshot.com/article/duel

Also the really long take of the ship pulling up to the dock was super great

goth predates the 90s, remy

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:42 AM (8 minutes ago)

no wait what

Herzog's "Nosferatu" blew me away the first time I saw i, due in large part to the Popol Vuh score. One of the most hard-hitting moments was the long shot of the ship with the music just sort of droning on in the bleakest fashion; it seemed so profound and hopeless.

― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

The combination of music (which I love, obvs), Isabelle Adjani (who looks AMAZING in this movie) and sympathetic vampyr Kinski -- the only similarly potent cocktail for me is Wicker Man.

yeah, herzog's got imagery and atmosphere in spades, can't deny. just doesn't move me otherwise.

herzog's nosferatu, that is

Like, Alien would have sucked if it was the exact same movie, but there was some guy in the end who was all I made this in my lab and summoned you here to find it because humanity is a dick

Yeah, exactly. Leave all of the unnecessary explaining and backstory-filling until the shitty sequels.

kinski is to emo vampires what rites of spring is to emo rock

the same wikipedia entry says the truck has multiple license plates on it which spielberg apparently meant as a subtle suggestion that the trucker had randomly killed people in other states

that's weird. up until the late 70s, long-haul trucks had to have a seperate license plate for each state in which they typically traveled. nothing particularly sinister about it.

For the record, and so it is known -- I am not a fan of sexy vampire lit or movies outside of Nosferatu. Crap is crap and Herzog's Nosferatu is not crap.

but there was some guy in the end who was all I made this in my lab and summoned you here to find it because humanity is a dick

afaict they're making this movie - lucky us!

I remember reading about the making of this & how Spielberg was basically driven crazy (ha) by walls & walls of storyboards, because the movie was essentially all storyboards. Script was probably 25 pages long.

Pls note -- 8 votes, 226 points
high passion rating for arty vampyr

afaict they're making this movie - lucky us!

yeah, I am strenuously hoping for some angle that is not this

i prefer the herzog nosferatu to the OG Murnau version b/c i saw a really shitty print of the Murnau Nosferatu (on Netflix) w/ a really inappropriate score. i would jump for a chance to see a decent print of the Murnau version in a theater, preferably w/ a good matching score, before i pass final judgment on it.

my comments about liking expressionist-style horror films over more "realist" ones notwithstanding, what sells the Herzog version is the idea of a Klaus Kinski-style vampire being set loose in a real-looking Romanian gypsy village or real-looking German/Dutch town to unleash real-looking havoc (all of those rats and corpses!)

Now that I'm thinking about it, man, so many movies fuck up vampires so badly. I re-watched the Frank Langella "Dracula" recently and it had so much potential and just ended up so grrrrrr.

THERE IS A CAR CHASE IN THAT FRIGGING MOVIE. WHY???

With each passing movie revealed, I get nervous the next one's gonna be The Human Centipede. The higher we get, the higher go the nerves.

With each passing movie revealed, I get nervous the next one's gonna be The Human Centipede. The higher we get, the higher go the nerves.

lol it's like the napoleon dynamite of horror movies!!!

with more segments

Would watch a version with Napoleon, Kip and Pedro sewn together. In that order.

"These two DEAD RINGERS put the DEAD in DEAD RINGERS! And the RINGERS too, they put the RINGERS in DEAD RINGERS! And they sure solve that pesky RING around the COLLAR ... you know, down there. THAT collar!"

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5080/7211434044_39ddbedc7a_o.jpg

79. DEAD RINGERS
David Cronenberg, Canada, 1988
(228 points, 8 votes)

I always get dead ringers confused with raising cain for a moment.
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:06 PM (9 years ago)

Dead Ringers is his funniest film! Also: Genevieve Bujold is hawt.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:35 PM (2 years ago)

will never understand the love for Dead Ringers. someone offer a defense of this terminally boring, one-trick movie
― a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 6:05 PM (2 years ago)

Meh. Recently realized I own this on VHS. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

BOOO

movie wears out its welcome so quickly for me. I've seen it several times and at the end of each my main takeaway has just been irritation.

haven't seen this one, so no comment.

"gynecological instruments for operating on mutant women"

^ sometimes the idea is all you need (or want)

"What is it with you, chum?" -- Genevieve Bujold, Dead Ringers

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sTGIC-qIMmU/SInsvp-ciCI/AAAAAAAAAu0/2uuQePGvpr8/s400/simps_boourns.JPG

^^^Shakey

love dead ringers, and though i didn't vote for it, i'm happy to see it here. so creepy. pillbox's screencap could not be more perfect.

Great movie, but I always felt the title was too Tales from the Crypt for such a movie (no offense to the Cryptkeeper).

Original title was Twins, but Reitman beat him to the punch.

so then is this thing similar to DePalma's Sisters?!?

"gynecological instruments for operating on mutant women"

yeah see this just isn't interesting to me. the women aren't mutants, the gynecologists are just mysogynists. okay.

and the "instruments" don't even come into it at all apart from a few scenes towards the end. most of the movie is dedicated to Irons' talking to himself - always had the impression we're supposed to be engaged/amazed by the double-acting going on than anything else, and I just find it boring.

like "oooh which is which!?" who cares when they're both such vacant characters

somebody's a little sensitive about his trifurcated cervix

I voted for it, even though I'm still not sure if it's really a horror film or not. I think it's an exceptionally sad film. Great use of "In the Still of the Nite."

nothing itt makes me want to see this.

I could barely tolerate Dead Ringers and it gave me nightmares for a good long while. (I love Sisters though.)
There's something about the twins and the gynecological instruments that makes my disturbometer go haywire, like dental work does. It's the only thing I remember about the movie, and I can't unremember it even 20+ years later.