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

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.

i liked trick r treat more than creepshow, but I actually saw the former first

ok so i think thx to creepshow romero might be top director on this poll, which eases the lynch worries a bit. altho there is always cronenberg, which angers me less than the lynch potential but still arrrrrrrgh

xpost trick r treat is another one in the list of modern stuff that i do not get the love for. speaking of which hoping to get drag me to hell out of the way soon.

I seem to remember Cat's Eye having a strikingly bad score in addition to being overall ugly and mean spirited (not in a good way)
The HBO thing explains why I seem to remember it as well as I do, even though we didn't have HBO, I assume it was taped during a free sample and watched multiple times.

good news for everyone - i will be away from computers from tomorrow until sunday, so you wont have to put up with my uncontrollable whining for at least a few days

I liked Trick R' Treat enough to throw it a few points. No gloss on Creepshow, though. The masters of horror made it! The masters!!

I think as a child I did kind of like the last segment with the little bedroom monster.
(xpost)

subtracting the nostalgia factor from Creepshow (which tbh is probably impossible, but whatev), I think Trick r Treat was a substantial improvement on the formula. lt's a shame that it didn't really seem to catch its audience, but then that's how cults get started I suppose.

oh shit also, wrt way upthread, yes AP, i think i was in that basement!

don't understand why cronenberg topping a horror poll would anger you. shivers, the brood, the fly, all great horror movies, I'd even accept videodrome on the basis of outlandish gore.

ok so i think thx to creepshow romero might be top director on this poll, which eases the lynch worries a bit.

Four Romeros and four Lynches on my ballot. And only one Cronenberg, I think.

Just went searching for movie with the giant cat that fascinated and scared me as a child. Found it:

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"Is that a NUCLEAR BLAST I hear in the distance or the sound of IS THIS HORROR pedantry reaching SCREAMING new heights? KA-BOO-M!"

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74. THREADS
Mick Jackson, UK, 1984
(251 points, 6 votes)

I was convinced the world would end EXACTLY ilke it happened in 'THREADS', back in the day. Rape scene, ew, and also the moment when the woman pisses herself in the street when she realises what's coming in a minute.
― darren (darren), Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:52 PM (8 years ago)

Oh god did Threads ever fuck with my head as a teenager. I can't believe my year 9 english teacher MADE US watch both it and the Day After. Cold War my arse. It scarred me for years, I still have nightmares about hiding in bunkers waiting for the shit to go down now and then. Very depressing scary film. Day After wasn't anywhere near as bad (poss. because Threads continues on for years after the blasts and gets all Mad Max).
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:49 PM (8 years ago)

the most shocking thing i've ever seen on tv. have thought about little else since.
― piscesboy, Thursday, October 30, 2003 7:02 AM (8 years ago)

Cannot parse this line from Eric's overall sharp review:
"Where Creepshow III really fails (well, the most ruinous failing point, anyway) is in its post-Crash attempt to complicate the diverse stories' connective tissue."

Even though I think Crash is one of the ten greatest films of the 1990s, I never thought it loomed so large as to necessitate dividing up eras into pre- and post-Crash. Did it really influence horror films that much? And even if it did, does it complicate diverse stories' connective tissues? Story isn't what Crash is after in the first place.

Or did you mean that crappy Oscar-winning Crash?

lol britishes followed through!!!

xpost, yes, the crap Crash, not the sexy one

Ah ok makes sense now. Great review!

Three more movies remain today, but I need to step away from the computer for a couple hours.

Just wanted to make sure I got around to posting Threads before britishes's bedtime.

sexy?

subtracting the nostalgia factor from Creepshow (which tbh is probably impossible, but whatev), I think Trick r Treat was a substantial improvement on the formula.

I mean...in a way, it's an apples and oranges comparison. Creepshow was as much a pastiche as it was a straight horror anthology. A large part of what I love about it is the visual style and the music and the overacting. Combined with the super-realistic effects and the horror host who just hovers without ever speaking and lots of other weird and creepy elements that subvert the goofy, heightened atmosphere.