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

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The thing with most of the Cronenberg I've seen (which includes nothing from the past decade+, it should be noted) is that the films themselves are kinda...boring, I guess? and have mostly faded from memory aside from a handful of really visceral scenes. The Fly and Naked Lunch are the only exceptions I can think of.

videodrome ain't boring, cmon. aside from the weird setpieces and gore, james woods in the role he was born to play, a great score from howard shore, etc, etc, the movie is funny! a guy named professor o'blivion saying, 'my preferred method of discourse is the monologue' just cracks me up, what can I say?

admittedly, this does not really apply to the brood. but I recently re-screened dead ringers and caught a dangerous method for the first time and laughed a lot during both. feel like cronenberg's dry sense of humor is something that doesn't get mentioned enough. most likely because of all the body fluids flying around and grossing people out, oh well.

The "2" in 28 Days Later looked like a "9" to me and I thought this poll was going in a really awful direction if some sort of sequel to 28 Days Later made the list.

yeah, prob should have re-thought that font for that particular title, ALTHOUGH 28 Weeks Later is better than it has any right to be & I almost voted for it tbh.

I appreciate the charitable hearts of everyone who's ever said anything positive about Exorcist II. The world needs more people who can see silver linings on even the shittiest of clouds.

i didnt vote for sc but this poll desperately needed some cruddy-awesome 80s video exploitation shit so kudos

about 35 of the next 49 will be slasher films, right?

(in no particular ordure)

Still, an audacious failure is preferable to a chickenhearted success.

This is more than a fair statement, but I don't think anyone who loves the original thinks of it as chickenhearted. Kehr also sounds pretty divided on the sequel himself. (In fairness, I'll again mention that I haven't seen Boorman's film.)

Well, of course they don't. And Kehr is divided on it because it IS a mess. It's just a mess that's waaaaay more compelling than the first one.

"Everybody seems to hate this movie, and not without good reason. But John Boorman's 1977 follow-up to William Friedkin's shocker is a much more interesting film than the original, and Boorman deserves credit for trying out some new ideas, even if most of them backfire. Visually, it's fascinating—sort of a blend of Minnellian baroque and Buñuelian absurdity—but the dialogue is childish, the story is incomprehensible, and the metaphysics are ridiculous. Still, an audacious failure is preferable to a chickenhearted success. More than worth a look, if only out of curiosity"

this could just as easily be a review/description of zardoz as one of exorcist II, fwiw.

Sleepaway Camp! Sleepaway Camp! 15 on my ballot, easily my favorite terrible movie. *maniacally hums Angela's song*

Sleepaway camp totally deserves tht placement, if not higher, because once you scrape away the meatballs exterior there is a deeply disturbed movie underneath, long before the famous last scene.

Totally. I mean, the last scene was definitely o_O but I was already o_O long before that.

Sometimes my brain confuses Sleepaway Camp with Slumber Party Massacre.

love the scene where the cop and the one counselor are talking at length in morbid detail about what extreme pain the cook must be experiencing

God yes. I mean, I get the whole "horror movies that put you through the wringer" and "horror movies that are actually good movies" but my favorites tend to be the horror movies that make you laugh and clutch your head and go "WHAT IS HAPPENING HOW DOES ANYBODY THINK OF THIS."

Sometimes my brain confuses Sleepaway Camp with Slumber Party Massacre.

Sleepaway Camp = inadvertent gender studies senior thesis

Slumber Party Massacre = intentional feminist senior thesis

I let you guys have almost an hour to make the inevitable "Sleepaway Camp : this poll :: WHAS : comedy poll" comparison, and nothing. For shame.

When Harry Ate Sally?? Is that some sort of zombie version?

there's gotta be a porno w/ that title.

"John KILL-iams' music is good and all, but I can't watch this without humming Christopher CROSS's 'AILING'!"

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49. JAWS
Steven Spielberg, USA, 1975
(363 points, 12 votes)

Is Jaws the ultimate male bonding movie? Does the shark put the rub into rubber. Why is it not that well regarded these days? (Because Speilberg himself doesn't like it)?
― Pete, Wednesday, August 14, 2002 7:00 PM (9 years ago)

It's about Spielberg's 6th- or 7th-best film.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, July 8, 2010 6:52 AM (1 year ago)

Tommy Johnson, tuba player on the "Jaws" theme, RIP

haven't been any actual 'Video Nasties' so far have there? you know from the canon i mean? will there be any coming up do we think?

Huh. I thought this would be higher. Also that screencap is freeeeaky.

sharky is appearing a little early in this bitch, ain't it?!?

haven't been any actual 'Video Nasties' so far have there? you know from the canon i mean? will there be any coming up do we think?

― piscesx, Monday, May 21, 2012 6:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think so, but surely there will be.

Way, way, way too early. This was my #2!

evil dead is a shoo-in, so that's one Video Nasty that will likely appear.

I think we discussed this in the nominations thread, maybe? Jaws is good and definitely has some horror elements, but I have trouble thinking of it as a horror movie per se. But that might just be me.

I am fine with jaws but I find it hard to care about it all that much

i'm guessing that folks 35ish-and-younger don't find it either all that scary or monumental, ergo its low placement.

(it didn't make my ballot, either. in fact, nothing that appeared today was on my ballot.)

Jaws is a monster movie, and I don't think King Kong (the good one) is appearing later.

(still I put it #32 cuz it's not shit)

I am fine with jaws but I find it hard to care about it all that much

^^^

Frankenstein is a monster movie!

Frankenstein - Dracula - Wolfman are THE monster movies!

seeing Jaws as a little kid totally wigged me out - I didn't even want to go into swimming pools for a year or two.

Venn diagram time again LOL.

Frankenstein - Dracula - Wolfman are THE monster movies!

"Um, corr-ICK-tion."

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48. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
John Landis, USA, 1981
(368 points, 11 votes)

I owe this film a great deal, it got me laid.
― Matt (Matt), Saturday, October 16, 2004 9:46 AM (7 years ago)

Some Monster Movies have more horror elements than others. Is Godzilla under consideration?

okay that's a pretty remarkable coincidence

er n/m

;)

I did find American Werewolf to have a couple genuinely frightening scenes, and the best transformation scene ever, probably. However it starred the Dr Pepper guy, and the wind kinda went out of the last third, didn't it?

(haven't seen since '81)

Aw, c'mon, this is Jaws! It's untouchable. The salty on-location atmosphere; the authentic, crowded, talking-over-each-other living room scenes; the breathless opening kill; how most of it unfolds in broad daylight; the Muffin Man; the jet of blood from the kid on the raft; the relationship with the 3 guys; Roy Fucking Scheider!; the slow, believable sinking of the ship; the boy & Dad copying each other's postures; etc, infinity.

Sweet. The bird's-eye shot of the werewolf in the underground is one of my favorite shots in any horror movie ever.

watched it recently, it's okay. sdtk jokes aren't really that funny. didn't vote for it.

#24 on my ballot. Pure classic, everybody in it is great.

I consider Godzilla (e.g.) more sci-fi, but I can see someone including it as a horror film.

I didn't vote for Jaws for genre-hedging reasons--I can see arguments for and against--but I don't think there'll be a film on here that makes me laugh more. To the many moments cited above, I'd add one more: when the mom, flipping through the book, does a 180 and shouts, "Get out of that water now!"

watched it recently, it's okay. sdtk jokes aren't really that funny. didn't vote for it.

^^^^