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

Unbelievably, I can't remember HOW the human-faced dog enters into this wonderful movie.

gaaah! well the guy falls asleep on a park bench with his dog in one scene, and in the next during a melee of sorts it's clear that his genes/cells have all got messed up with the pooch's and.. oh god..

In advance of its release, there were full-page ads on the back covers of Marvel comics for months,

I remember that, those were GREAT ads

movie ads were well scarier back in the day

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I think I cut Body Snatchers with the weak justification of "it's SF", but really I think I just had a *too canon* ballot already and wanted at least some oddballs in there.

"My favorite audition comes courtesy Marvin Haml-ISH's 'A GORE-US LINE' -- "What does she want from me? Should I try to FLEE? So many PIECES OF MY BODY all around and here we go!"

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29. AUDITION [aka オーディション]
Takeshi Miike, Japan, 1999
(519 points, 18 votes)

Takashi Miike is obviously a director with huge amounts of energy and innovative thoughts, but he seems to have trouble controlling that energy to make coherent, flawless movies. The more of of his films I see, the more I begin to suspect he'll never something as good as Audition, the one film of his which is coherent from the beginning to the very end.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, October 20, 2003 4:27 AM (8 years ago)

I've never enjoyed Audition more than when I rented it to watch with my girlfriend. She was not familiar with it & I did not tell her it was a horror film & really enjoyed the process of watching her watch it, esp. around the halfway point when the bottom just falls out from under it (around the scene w/ the ringing telephone & unidentified man in bag). Even tho this scared the bejeezus out of her in the short term, she was ultimately glad she knew nothing about it going in & I really wish I could say the same for when I originally saw it.
― Screeching Weerasethakul (Pillbox), Friday, February 5, 2010 3:25 PM (2 years ago)

audition though, i loved. even though i almost fainted at the movie theater. i have a fear of strangulation and things touching my neck, so the piano wire scene was omg.
― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, April 10, 2005 3:07 AM (7 years ago)

I think Miike Takashi deliberately made the first half of Audition boring to sucker everyone into thinking it'd end normally.
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Friday, February 5, 2010 3:21 PM (2 years ago)

as an ultra-confirmed horror stan, im just going to out myself here right now and say that i do not get the appeal of audition (and actually cant get into most miike stuff).
― I AM ENJOY TO PARTY? (jjjusten), Friday, February 5, 2010 3:18 PM (2 years ago)

I have the Invasion of the Body Snatchers Fotonovel. I love Fotonovels!

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yeah fotonovels were amazing. i've got the Close Encounters one; in the early 80s it was THE only place you could see stills from the original cut of CE because it had been banished from video/ TV in light of the Special (rubbish) Edition.

Vinyl lovers should be aware that Denny Zeitlin's jazz-avant-chamber score for Body Snatchers is totally amazing sui generis stuff. Never released on CD.

I thought I'd finally conquered my Miike queasiness & then I went and watched his banned "Master of Horror" episode and it was like NOPE.

Whole thing available here for sickos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C248DmRYbqU

In advance of its release, there were full-page ads on the back covers of Marvel comics for months,

ha yes! totally remember these. was years before I saw the actual movie.

ichi the killer was scarier, gorier ... and better. but i can live w/ audition being in the Top 100.

Body Snatchers 78 is one of my all-time favorites! Sutherland, Goldblum, slimy Nimoy, the sounds the pod-people make, the pathos of the man-dog, ... i know it's mainly because it's San Francisco and the man-dog has a beard, but sometimes when i'm in the Mission, i think, "what if all the scruffy-bearded hipster guys' genes merged with those of their dogs while having brunch at Boogaloo's?"

raimi directed the evil dead when he was 20

oh wow I am really behind here

is Body Snatchers Nimoy's only decent film aside from the good Star Trek ones? i think it must be. surprising really.

LOL sarahell

Audition was a last-minute cut. I really liked it at the time, but I think the Wikipedia summary of Imprint probably cast all of Miike's output in a different, less pleasing light.

But, in Scenes That Will Haunt Me Forever, the dude eating his own vomit out of the bowl is pretty high up there.

Nimoy had a small role in them! ... looking at Wikipedia, he actually hasn't been in that many non-Star Trek films at all.

Soooo happy to see Snatchers '78 show up, if a bit too low. #8 on my ballot.

mm yeah and that's *the real actress' vomit* aswell. genuinely. i dunno if he ate it but she really did throw up in a bowl.

WHAT

NO

Young Nimoy

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/281/e/d/Young_Leonard_Nimoy_by_Idigoddpairings.jpg

i often wonder how hungry you'd need to be, or for how many days you'd have to have been starving for, to eat your captor's vomit.

nonononononononononono

is Body Snatchers Nimoy's only decent film aside from the good Star Trek ones?

He appeared in a nifty version of Genet's Deathwatch.

(My first exposure was the Mad parody, and I was surprised to discover that the thing with the rat turds actually did figure into the movie and weren't just a crude joke by the Usual Gang of Idiots.)

Chiming in on Invasion--would likely make my top 10 of the decade regardless of genre.

I need another shot of Fly Young Nimoy to deal with all this talk of vomit-eating

http://whosagingbetter.com/images/2009/11/17/Leonard-Nimoy_0-l.jpg

ichi the killer was scarier, gorier ... and better. but i can live w/ audition being in the Top 100.

ichi's gory as hell and arguably a good movie, but i didn't find it scary at all

if anyone's interested here's my contenderizer-length explication of audition

Best Horror Film of 1999 (part 31 of a series)

"Odd to see the results on that '99 poll posted again, given WITCH film comes next in our countdown!"

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28. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, USA, 1999
(526 points, 20 votes)

i doubt it holds up at all, i could care less. cheap little horror flix that are also cheap little art flix and come out of nowhere and make a shitton of money and confuse the hell out of hollywood if only for a second are always classic, even if this ain't no night of the living dead or texas chainsaw massacre.
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:15 AM (6 years ago)

this is the worst fim ever
― captain crunchyfarts, Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:37 AM (6 years ago)

according to the IMDb, each actor was paid $1,000 to act in the film. because of the contract/box office, they made $4 million apiece.
― gear (gear), Saturday, October 29, 2005 1:53 AM (6 years ago)

goddamn
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, October 29, 2005 2:07 AM (6 years ago)

too bad they died : (
― gear (gear), Saturday, October 29, 2005 2:08 AM (6 years ago)

this film is fucking stupid and you're all stupid for voting for it

you jerks, f the blair witch p in the butthole

ok glad we got that out of the way

hahaha

this was a great film to watch in a mostly empty movie theater

Audition was a last-minute cut. I really liked it at the time, but I think the Wikipedia summary of Imprint probably cast all of Miike's output in a different, less pleasing light.

i like a lot of things about miike, but i recently watched full metal yakuza, and the extremly graphic rape, torture and murder of a sympathetic female character - presented as little more than "colorful" set dressing - left a bad taste in my mouth. imprint tends in the same direction, and it's not a rare device in his films, overall (e.g., tubgirl in dead or alive).

then again, i like audition and visitor q, so the consistency of my standards is dubious at best.

this film is fucking stupid and you're all stupid for voting for it

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:43 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ co-sign. also, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG2KMkQLZmI

This movie deserves respec' knuckles just for basically inventing viral marketing.

it's not a rare device in his films, overall (e.g., tubgirl in dead or alive)

um

actually I thought the blair witch project was ok but #28 pffft

at last, the true napoleon dynamite of horror movies!

what does that even mean

Just gonna c+p what I wrote in the Blair Witch thread years ago:

I was lucky enough to stumble onto free passes to a preview screening. Having no idea what I was in for, it scared me shitless. One of the most effective horror movies I ever saw. My second viewing of it, after all of the hype, was significantly less impactful. It probably doesn't hold up past the initial viewing (and only then if you don't know much about it), but it did the trick that one time.

http://home.earthlink.net/~steevee/top99.html

When I saw THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT on opening day, I never expected it to have a shot at a 140 million dollar gross, much less provoke the kind of widespread anger it subsequently generated. Six months later, I'm most impressed by the way it brings together several strands of North American independent cinema: the B-movies of Val Lewton and the later examples of regional horror directors like George Romero and Tobe Hooper, the 60s work of Shirley Clarke and John Cassavetes, and Atom Egoyan's reflexivity and fascination with video technology. (As a cautionary tale about video, it certainly trumps Michael Haneke's self-righteous tirades.)

I read the first few chapters of the girls memoir about quoting Hollywood and moving to a pot farm. Unreadable.

The one dude was good in humpday.

at last, the true napoleon dynamite of horror movies!

― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does that even mean

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:47 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh ... that it's very divisive, people either love it or hate it and the folks who hate it REALLY hate it.

Ugh, quitting Hollywood.

I voted Blair Witch, but somewhere down the bottom of my ballot. I think it's a good film, and pretty effective.

i imagine that the reputation of the blair witch project (like that of the usual suspects) is aided immensely by the fact that it's got a killer ending. not much of a movie up to that point, but damn if it doesn't go out with a bang. a movie that starts poorly but ends well, will generally, i suspect, be more more fondly remembered than one that initially shows promise but falls apart in the home stretch.

fwiw, i don't love or hate the blair witch project. thought it was okay, but nowhere near great.

"Be kind! Re-DIE-nd Rehash!"

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27. THE RING
Gore Verbinski, USA, 2002
(536 points, 17 votes, 1 first-place vote)

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― dayo, Friday, April 27, 2012 8:53 AM (3 weeks ago)