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

They're kind of all just different flavors of batshit.

re: Neill. True, but it's clearly the least rewarding role, to play against such characters like Anna and Heinrich.

Like, I saw Possession and The Ninth Configuration around the same time, and I was much more convinced that everyone in the Possession-verse was profoundly mentally ill.

it does seem as though they are. few film so effective capture and communicate the tense, skin-crawling horror of profoundly distorted perception. it's got a heavy bad trip vibe, imo.

^^this.

tho we should save all this for when it places in the top 20.

5 so far: Cabin in the Woods, Paranormal Activity, FWWM, Pontypool, & Creepshow

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Better be at least top ten or it's on.

(It's probably gonna be on...)

Y'all do realize Eric's rolling another 3 out this evening, right?

This evening = about 20 minutes

Per an earlier discussion, my ballot is tied at 13 entries each for "People" (no supernatural involvement, so your Stabby McStabbersons, your mad scientists, your serial killers) and Satan/demons/Old Ones/cults devoted to those things. Then plague/zombie movies, then general monsters that aren't vampires or werewolves tied with ghosts (unless you count Paranormal Activity as a demon movie instead of a ghost movie, which is probably more accurate, then ghosts would rank above general monsters), then vampires, and then unclassifiable menace, which would include FWWM.

cool! look forward to catching up when i get home.

hexpee

6 of mine so far (and pending the release of the next three): nosferatu, phantom der nacht; seven; kwaidan; pan's labyrinth; invasion of the body snatchers (1956); dressed to kill. of these, only herzog's nosferatu was in my top 10.

"Personally I find tie scores a DRAG, but what the HELL!"

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72. (tie) DRAG ME TO HELL
Sam Raimi, USA, 2009
(261 points, 9 votes)

72. (tie) NIGHT OF THE DEMON [a.k.a. CURSE OF THE DEMON]
Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1959
(261 points, 9 votes)

it's possible the theater had the sound jacked up to eleven but this was non-stop LOUD-BOO-JUMP-SCARE
― da croupier, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:32 PM (2 years ago)

It was maybe the loudest movie I've ever seen.
― lindseykai, Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:13 AM (2 years ago)

the guy behind me saying "epic fail" out loud every time somebody got served or whatever was several new levels of pathetic
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Friday, May 29, 2009 9:09 PM (2 years ago)

I want Lamp to direct a sequel to this that follows the gypsy around as she curses everyone who inconveniences her.
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:45 PM (2 years ago)

Persuade Me to Heck
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:45 PM (2 years ago)

if you watch the excellent Curse Of The Demon you get to hear the dialogue that Kate Bush sampled on that one song: "It's in the trees!" At least I think that was from Curse Of The Demon. My memory is shot.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, June 18, 2004 9:21 AM (7 years ago)

Curse of the Demon seconded. Scariest black and white movie ever? Even more so than The Haunting, Carnival or Souls or Psycho? Discuss.
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, June 18, 2004 10:55 AM (7 years ago)

drag me to hell just barely missed out on my ballot.

Yeah, I was surprised by how much I liked it, but don't think I voted for it. Someone had to vote for THE TINGLER and that person was me.

And me!

Drag Me to Hell was okay, don't really get why it's so highly rated around here. It wasn't bad but it wasn't scary either.

As I'm sure I won't be the only one to notice, Drag Me to Hell, in addition to holding the title as the Loudest Movie Ever, might also win the Most Disgusting Things Sprayed at Faces Award, which is really quite an honor all things considered.

The guy who plays the villain in Night of the Demon is an A+ ham. I seriously don't think I could make it through Drag Me to Hell (I remember the commercials)--I'd be hiding the whole time.

ha all of the wrong modern stuff is placing in this poll, serves me right

xpost to be fair we could just call that the Sam Raimi Award right from the get go. dude has a archetype

i wouldnt worry about it too much clemenza, Drag Me To Hell is at best intermittently scary, much more in the evil dead 2 camp of horror comedies

i think there's something on my computer screen, hold on

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xp I thought you were going somewhere else for awhile?

Voted for Drag Me to Hell. Loved it. Still love it.

Didn't vote for this, but you gotta give it up to Raimi for that ending. Also, the lead actress was perfectly cast: she's fresh-faced enough to have stepped out of Where the Boys Are and then, well, dragged through hell.

Wished I'd seen Drag Me To Hell in the theater. 'Twouldv'e been fun, whatwith the pure physicality, esp. the car lot confrontation scene, and the whole general "shock" sound design

drag me to hell was lots of fun but never seriously considered it. as for night of the demon, it was in my top 10 and if it wasn't for the, much-derided everywhere, reveal and also dana andrews then i think it would be a different film right up there in this. the tornado scene is all-time.

iirc the ending was followed by the title, right? If I'm not imagining it, man that was perfect.

drag me to hell was lots of fun but never seriously considered it.

yep. it's PG-13 and shows it. the car lot sequence is probably the best. the ending seemed pretty obvious imho.

Drag has that right-at-your-face gibbering horror I mentioned re: Creepshow that so few filmmakers try to pull off for fear of looking dorky. Best example of this, maybe EVER, is in the otherwise mediocre Pet Sematary, where the sister with spinal meningitis rushes the camera. Oh god.

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Best example of this, maybe EVER, is in the otherwise mediocre Pet Sematary, where the sister with spinal meningitis rushes the camera. Oh god.

Awesome.

I think the best example of that is actually Inland Empire.

some folks may overrate drag me to hell b/c it came right after the indisputably shitty spiderman 3 and folks be like, "oh, raimi can still make OK films!"

haven't really cared about Raimi since Evil Dead 2 tbh. he's not a bad director, but he isn't great either. his films are always passable (I haven't seen s3)

I like A Simple Plan every time it turns up on TV.

I know the demon in Demon was added against Tourneur's wishes, but, I dunno, I kind of like it there. Gives it a nice A-plus B-movie feel.

A Simple Plan is fantastic. If you respect yourself and your time, never ever see Spider-Man 3.

Gratuitous dancing scenes will always earn my respect.

For, you know, super-fans:

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I don't get this image--I thought it was the same film:

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I gave Drag Me To Hell a go but it seemed to be descending into a pretty stock racist story about Roma people so i stopped. I might have been wrong but the whole tone struck me as really unpleasant.

yeah it all centers around that more or less

I don't get this image--I thought it was the same film

Explained here.

I gave Drag Me To Hell a go but it seemed to be descending into a pretty stock racist story about Roma people so i stopped. I might have been wrong but the whole tone struck me as really unpleasant.

That's really OTM and I can't defend that aspect of theories at all.

(xpost) Thanks--it's been a while, so I'm not entirely sure which one I voted for.

"theories" should be "this movie." Autocorrect!

I love that those films are tied, as Raimi's is clearly in debt to "Demon."

I know the demon in Demon was added against Tourneur's wishes, but, I dunno, I kind of like it there. Gives it a nice A-plus B-movie feel.

nah it's an embarrassment of a devil. it almost looks embarrassed for itslef, you want to give it a hug and say "chin up, i've prob seen worse elsewhere, sometime".

night of the demon slipped off my ballot because I haven't seen it in ages, feels like it shoulda been higher but idk

also, love the demon

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