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

'56 is better especially without the wraparound they imposed on it.

I think the first time I saw this the final scene was of the lead guy on the highway, freaking out, surrounded by trucks filled with pods...? this is the original ending, right?

and the tide coming in. man i might need to go buy creepshow tonight. xposts

i do like the thanks for the ride lady part and the raft from creepshow 2 but the rest of it is pretty soft

love invasion '56. never saw '78

<3 Leslie Nielsen. "I can hold my breath . . . for a LOOOOOONG time!"

Also, Gaylen Ross in the only other thing I've ever seen her in.

xp WAHT?! AP you have to watch the '78 version like tonight.

jjjusten, I think I saw creepshow 1 & 2 back-to-back in my basement with friends. Were you there for that?

CREEPSHOW TOO LOW! I love that movie at least as much as Thnig. It was my number five. In a way, it's kind of a love letter to and celebration of the horror genre.

was really torn about which of the first two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to vote for. went with the first one.

That's cool. Have a feeling that many, many more points went to the latter.

fyi I once wrote a song that included the following lines

never got along with my coaches
like upson pratt hates roaches

i do like the thanks for the ride lady part and the raft from creepshow 2 but the rest of it is pretty soft

There's only 3 segments in Creepshow 2, so 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

General Service Announcement: AVOID CREEPSHOW 3 AT ALL COSTS.

xp WAHT?! AP you have to watch the '78 version like tonight.

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For real, even if it's only to sink into the soft, sedated 1970s only to be wrestled awake by killer houseplants.

i do like the thanks for the ride lady part and the raft from creepshow 2 but the rest of it is pretty soft

LOL, there was only one other segment ('Chief Woodenhead').

Oh, xposts...

i vaguely remember a 1980 SNL sketch w/ Strother Martin where they had Republican door-to-door volunteers handing out pods and turning ex-hippies into Reaganites.

General Service Announcement: AVOID CREEPSHOW 3 AT ALL COSTS.

DID YOU KNOW (because I didn't for the longest time): the Tales From The Darkside series was initially supposed to be a Creepshow series but wasn't because of rights issues or what have you? So you can just pretend that Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is the real Creepshow 3

Also, they're apparently working on a new, legit Creepshow that is apparently (and fittingly, in the age of the confusingly-named sequel) going to just be called Creepshow.

Aside: I'm home sick and watching horror movies on Netflix all day and if I had seen Daughters of Darkness before sending in my ballot, I would have voted for it.

Don Siegel's IotBS obscenely low; had it #5.

I've read about Creepshow, I've had cockroaches, and I ain't ever watchin' that shit.

Oh, jesus:

Taurus Entertainment (rights holders of the original Creepshow) have licensed the rights to Jace Hall, of HDFILMS, a Burbank, California company, to produce Creepshow: RAW, a web series based upon the original film.

The pilot episode for Creepshow: RAW wrapped on July 30, 2008. The pilot was directed by Wilmer Valderrama and features Michael Madsen.

Tales From The Darkside: The Movie has a cat forcing itself down someone's throat (sort of roaches-in-reverse) so, yeah, I'm cool with that being Creepshow 3.

carl agatha please email me some horror movies on netflix streaming i should watch while sarah's out of town.

oh ha i was thinking that the thanks for the ride thing was a framer ala ackroyd in the twilight zone. also i didnt even know there was a creepshow 3

'78 in my queue

n/a: okeydoke

A further sequel, Creepshow III, featuring no involvement from Stephen King, George A. Romero, or anyone else involved in the production of the first two films, was released direct-to-video in 2007 (though it was finished in 2006) to mostly negative reviews. This film, in a fashion similar to the original Creepshow, features five short darkly comedic horror stories.

Creepshow make-up artist and Creepshow 2 actor, Tom Savini, has said that he considers Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) the real Creepshow 3.

speaking of horror antho stuff, anyone else have fond memories of Cat's Eye?

also preemptively if trick r' treat beats out creepshow i will bring the hate so goddamn hard on this thread

I've read about Creepshow, I've had cockroaches, and I ain't ever watchin' that shit.

You should know, once in awhile, I read your posts in the voice of E.G. Marshall.

I know some of you might take this as a weird recommendation but resist the urge. Do NOT see Creepshow 3. It will make you feel bad about yourself and the world in which you live.

(My review of Creepshow III, fwiw.)

xxpost

Thank you for that gift, Eric.

speaking of horror antho stuff, anyone else have fond memories of Cat's Eye?

no because it is a terrible terrible movie

xpost That 2.5 star rating is because the DVD had reasonably good a/v marks. The movie itself gets negative 23 stars.

I remember it fondly but haven't seen it since I was a kid and prefer to remember it as it was. xp

looking through all the films that have placed so far, i do get where jjj is coming from. out of 25 finalists, more than half skew towards art film, metafiction and/or dark fantasy. only a handful are both squarely in the genre and seriously gory.

metafiction?
more like MALEDICTION

also preemptively if trick r' treat beats out creepshow i will bring the hate so goddamn hard on this thread

I think Trick R' Treat's chance has long since passed here. But it was a pleasant enough update on the formula. I kinda do wish, however, that it had avoided the pitfall mentioned in Eric's Creepshow III review and presented everything as discrete, unconnected segments.

I think cat's eye was an HBO staple for ppl a little younger than me cuz it seems like a lot of folks recall it fondly

but I saw it in the theater as a teenage SK fan and disliked it, and rewatching it a couple years ago to indulge my wife's nostalgia did nothing to disabuse me of its terribleness

really hate creepshow 2. even the better segments have none of the style or charm of the original. stephen king's story "the raft" is horrifying and rather revolting. the movie version is just laughable. hitchhiker bit is okay, i guess.

i'd think that the gorehounds would be happy to be rid of the arty-farty pussy shit early before this poll gets to the GOOD AND REALLY GROSS STUFF.

Eric, it's nice to meet the other person who saw that piece of crap (Creepshow 3). The segment where they "disassemble" the woman is just offensive. xpost

It does not surprise me that an ILX horror film poll looks different than a Fangoria one.

like BLACK SWAN

xp to eisenbar

"horror = gory" is pretty lame imo

I think cat's eye was an HBO staple for ppl a little younger than me cuz it seems like a lot of folks recall it fondly

Yeah, it was. I tend to lump it in with a lot of other stuff I saw at the time and think of it as kind of a kids' movie. Where, y'know, a guy's mentally disabled daughter gets electrocuted.

I think cat's eye was an HBO staple for ppl a little younger than me cuz it seems like a lot of folks recall it fondly

Bingo!

"horror = gory" is pretty lame imo

since prob most of my ballot is arty-farty pussy shit i was being ironic.

"On stage tryin' to recite like me
But what I really see is Creepshow 3"
- Roxanne Shanté, "Deadly Rhymes" (Livin' Large, 1992)

Saw Cat's Eye recently. Definitely fond HBO memories, but it's about on par with a so-so episode of "Tales from the Darkside."

I think Trick R' Treat's chance has long since passed here. But it was a pleasant enough update on the formula. I kinda do wish, however, that it had avoided the pitfall mentioned in Eric's Creepshow III review and presented everything as discrete, unconnected segments. i like trick 'r treat! not enough to vote for it, but it's a good time and holds up to at least one rewatch. final segment's a bit of a letdown (needed more raimi-style kinetic snap to really pull the combat sequence off), but i was on board with everything up to that point, especially the bit with the witchy weird girl and the sunken schoolbus. i like the way the stories interconnect, too.

remember nothing about cat's eye other than the cat getting an electric hotfoot (which looked way too real and disturbed me as a kid), the cat wandering around from segment to segment, and the final cat vs. little monster battle. i think i'm just really into cats.

lol, "kid", i was 18. too old to be disturbed by fake cat electrocutions, but so be it.