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

Now Bob Clark, that is one weird career.

This btw is the movie that I forgot and then panicked after submitting my ballot. Thanks again for letting me fix that Eric. My highest ranking non-post 2000 film.

I posted the trailer for Clark's Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things on the other thread; here's a still.

http://technicolordreams70.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cspwdt7.jpg

Like he doesn't just handwave it away, he shows a character in the midst of giant telephone switching equipment following connections and stuff.

That sounds right up my alley. It makes me crazy when movies/tv don't adhere to an internal logic that at least makes sense within that fictional world. How did that subhuman psychopath manage the skill to make all the power go out, y'know?

maybe if I hadn't been jetsetting in Asia, I wouldn't have forgotten to vote for The Birds

but anyway, Black Christmas is just amazing, and I think it's the mostly-competent police work combined with the ending that elevates the movie

It's shocking how much John Carpenter ripped off Black Christmas. I'm surprised he even bother to change the holiday.

crystal unicorn murder is the best murder

hook is #2

Bob Clark also directed Baby Geniuses.

And Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

the phone calls are legitimately unsettling, even as they border on lurid campy nonsense. i found myself trying to laugh at how grotesque they were but it was an uncomfortable laughter at best.

That's my first-place vote; it got sentimental bonus points for being shot mostly in and around my old hood.

the ending of Black Christmas with the corpse in the attic = teh awesome

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 was #12 on my list.

Bob Clark's swan song. RIP.

man Bob Clark's career has been odd:

She-Man is a 1967 film directed by Bob Clark.

Plot

A soldier is forced to take estrogen and wear lingerie when he's blackmailed by a violent transvestite.

Reception

The film was banned on release.

I think his Deathdream/Dead of Night ('74) has a bit of a following.

From the Black Christmas storyline on IMDB:

They set up a wiretap to the sorority house, but will they be in time to prevent a sorority girl attrition problem?

Love Deathdream, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, and Black Xmas. I guess I'm a Bob Clark fan. How about that.

Taglines for She-Man:

Warning To Teenagers! If You Can't Stand The Facts Of Life, Don't See This Picture!

Now... The Movie That Dares Tell All About Today's Turned-On Generation!

They All Live In A House Of White Slavery Horror!

This Is Rose. He Went Along. It Was The Easiest Way!

Wow. I don't think I could pick a favorite.

I voted for a diff bob clark movie, I seriously doubt it will show up this late but I'll defer from mentioning just in case

Bob Clark also directed Baby Geniuses.

^ much scarier than Black Christmas

Was it Baby Geniuses 2? xp

it was Porky's, I bet

Was it Porky's or Porky's 2 where they mixed up fake vomit using canned goods and transported it in balloons disguised as boobs? Because that was both horrible and haunting.

btw Porky's is to date the only movie franchise I ever watched as a teen that my dad yelled at me for, and it was mostly because he hated the idea of "his generation" being portrayed that way (I knew enough to point out that being a black teen in 50s Akron was probably not quite the same as being a white teen in 50s Florida)

xp: that was Porky's II

Deathdream is a good one.

Some champion Clark's Sherlock Holmes film w/ Christopher Plummer.

I found your screen grab:
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murder by decree! I watched that a couple months ago, it's prolly the creepiest sherlock holmes film. plummer and mason make for a cute holmes/watson pairing.

xp

"I hope they send Hannibal to the E-LECTER CHAIR!"

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37. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Jonathan Demme, USA, 1991
(445 points, 16 votes)

surefire way to break up any serious situation: "oh yeah, was she a great big fat person?" in the buffalo bill voice
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:13 PM (7 years ago)

The lead singer of Q Lazzarus is a girl?!?!
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, August 27, 2004 7:04 AM (7 years ago)

there is no scene in seven as good as the one in silence of the lambs when jodie foster and scott glenn are in that house and they dab that weird stuff under their noses and have a conversation. i'm not kidding
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, August 27, 2004 8:40 AM (7 years ago)

I didn't rate Manhunter much either to be honest. Cox wasn't scary either in my opinion. But anything is better than Hopkins. He's so utterly dreadful in the role that I cannot get over awarding him an Oscar when the Academy wouldn't dream of doing the same for superior performances from Hess, Rooker ("Henry") or Robert Englund in the first "Nightmare".
― Ceezar, Tuesday, January 4, 2005 7:56 AM (7 years ago)

what the hell, I didn't vote for this either??????

never bought Hopkins in this for a second, Claricccccccce

On the one hand TOO LOW!!!!! On the other hand, it's maybe not really a horror movie. Regardless, I love this movie like a great big fat person (me) loves cake (I love cake a lot). It was my #3.

The sdtk for the musical is pretty good iirc

The number of ILX threads about the soundtrack to SOTL = the number of ILX threads about the movie itself.

Love the suit.

I'm going to try to make an observation about the directing in this movie, which I probably shouldn't do because I lack the vocabulary, but it's a thing I really like about Silence of the Lambs so here it goes: the shots of people talking tend to be really close in on just the speaker's face, which makes the movie feel REALLY CLOSE and stifling and intense.

this is my jam

Hopkins recalls, "I read the script and - boom - I knew intuitively how to play him. There were two, maybe three voices that I heard. I thought of Katharine Hepburn, Truman Capote and Hal.

As gender-bending creepy-house movies go, I prefer the one I saw last night where George Kuchar fucks a gorilla.

So super gay.

Shameful admission corner: I didn't vote for Silence Of The Lambs (which I do like a lot but which, overall, doesn't feel terribly "horror"-y to me), but I did vote for Hannibal (which I'm sure won't place at this point but which does the "slow slide from one type of movie into pretty much outright horror" transition better than almost any other movie I can think of).

I'm pretty sure I say "PUT THE LOTION IN THE BASKET" at least once a week.

As gender-bending creepy-house movies go, I prefer the one I saw last night where George Kuchar fucks a gorilla.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 Thundercrack

Man I just put the lotion in the basket and go about my business. Got to keep your head down to get ahead.

as I saw this once in '92, I don't associate the hateful tranny killer with the police captain on Monk

There's probably a correlation between this movie's placement on my ballot and its repeat quotability, and the extent to which certain lines from this movie have become part of my every day life.

never bought Hopkins in this for a second, Claricccccccce

^^^

I made a thread once where I complained about this kind of character

I didn't rate Manhunter much either to be honest. Cox wasn't scary either in my opinion. But anything is better than Hopkins. He's so utterly dreadful in the role that I cannot get over awarding him an Oscar when the Academy wouldn't dream of doing the same for superior performances from Hess, Rooker ("Henry") or Robert Englund in the first "Nightmare".

I like SOTL and voted for it but this is very, very OTM.

I'm going to try to make an observation about the directing in this movie, which I probably shouldn't do because I lack the vocabulary, but it's a thing I really like about Silence of the Lambs so here it goes: the shots of people talking tend to be really close in on just the speaker's face, which makes the movie feel REALLY CLOSE and stifling and intense.

This is very much A Jonathan Demme Thing. See also Philadelphia, Beloved, etc.