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

I like don't look now a lot, great atmospherics, but the placing seems right. was in the middle of my ballot.

between raincoat dwarf and karen black killer doll, my fear of small things appearing suddenly was cemented for life.

a few things (i was in a meeting)

* Mr Thnig and I went to see Blair Witch on our first date <3
* I'm not sure if I like DNL or BS '78 more, but Donald Sutherland and his capable-and-sensitive 70s man thing never gets old
* Here is a picture of me in the Paris catacombs in a hood waiting to scare the next available customer by merely standing there a la DLN. It worked!

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6145/5976942808_da6ecfa400.jpg

lol

Don't Look Now was mostly a lovely little low-key '70s picture about coming to terms with grief (and with one of the legit hottest sex scenes ever in a mainstream movie). Shame that Roeg had to go and and Shyamalan the ending.

Hahaha, brilliant.

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yeah, Reagan has been very influential too let's put him on Mt fucking Rushmore

How very flattering to be compared to Reagan!

The short story that DLN is based on isn't bad, but it lacks the Sutherland/smut. Generally I like Daphne DuMaurier even if her plots are a bit samey after a while.

the ending of DLN was just like, bizarrely dumb

Challops!

xxxp i can't tell if you're being serious or not dwh. xxp RONG

more challops: controversial sex scene in DNL hasn't aged well imo, soundtrack sounds like music on hold

"I always get this movie mixed up with SCHINDLER'S LIST!"

LOLOL just noticed this

I thought the end was kind of dumb, too. And I did not enjoy the sex scene, but I am not remotely interested in seeing Donald Sutherland have sex.

never even occurred to me that the sex scene was actually "sexy". mostly just bizarre. ending was left-field and genuinely frightening.

that was a good one, Eric xxp

the climax of Don't Look Now (I don't mean the Julie-Donald scrimmage) is the only horrific thing about it.

what number you going to today, eric?

the climax of Don't Look Now (I don't mean the Julie-Donald scrimmage) is the only horrific thing about it.

I thought the scene where sutherland was doing... um, architect things... at dangerous heights in the church was nice and tense. not really 'horrific' but cool scene.

venice setting really makes DLN imo.

Done for the day. Xpost

thx!

big day for me, audition and nosferatu in my top 5

evil dead, freaks, ringu, and don't look now also on my ballot

I should have voted in this. Don't Look Now would have been my Number 1. It is a beautiful and haunting film. One of my favourites of any genre.

Love the Schindler's List gag btw.

I'm sad that it's looking like The Uninvited (the one from 1944) won't make it, as it would have been easily in the top 5 on my ballot. But I can't imagine that it has so many fans here that it would ever break the top 25.

La Lechera wondered about Wicker Man... I will be irl shocked if it is not in the top 10 and think it has a good chance at top 5. Maybe not in the wide world but on ILX, yeah.

DLN was my #1. The mood (not necessarily teh scares) connects with me like nothing else in film.

Won't say it placed too low, just relieved that it outpaced BWP by a narrow margin. That is maybe the only film on this list which I haven't seen and don't ever plan to do so.

Also, until Audition got featured, I dug the probability that Hausu could end up being the highest placing Asian film on the list.
Though only for chuckles, not for legitimacy.

For ex: multiple shots where someone is far away (ie, 50 ft or so) from the camera but can still be heard clear as day on the audio track - completely violates the "found footage" conceit.

some dude already addressed, but yeah, I feel like I want to get all nit-picky/nerdy here, because IIRC they had a camcorder, a 16mm camera and a Nagra tape recorder, so this statement does not carry a lot of weight without some specificity.

my 15 yo memory is that there is a scene early on where they're crossing a river - the camera(wo)man and soundguy are back on one side and the other person is across the river on the other side talking and you can hear them clear as day. there was a bunch of incidental shit like this that was annoying.

and yeah they had a camcorder and DAT machine, like I said.

loving eric's spooky schtick with the intros btw

I voted for The Uninvited

Again, I saw BWP recently & didn't notice any of the tech cheats suggested here. But I could've been distracted by the suffocating & all-devouring FEAR.

It's at roughly this point in the Action and Comedy polls that I did a big "What's left" post, which added some specificity to the discussion and annoyed the hell out of a some people. I have no freaking idea what might be in the last 25, and only some of this is because this isn't really my scene. Like, if it didn't recieve a kicking upthread, I'd have assumed that Friday the 13th was still a lock.

And like in those two polls, I imagine that everything will be fairly nailed down this time tomorrow when there's only the top 10 left, so this is a pretty good place to be, savouring the antici.....

I love how "In Bruges" riffs on "Don't Look Now."

i don't think in my lifetime there's been a wider gap between the critics' view of a film and the general public's than with Blair Witch.

...dery.

The Wicker Man is definitely top ten, come now. I'd like to see it win, to be honest, even though it wasn't my number one.

Yeah, I still have approximately no idea what the top 25 will be. I could probably make a list of 10 or so that are absolute locks (and my #1, although a bit on the obscure side, looks to be safely among that top 25, which makes me happy) but I have no idea what the other 15-ish would be. Excitement!

I guess I should rewatch The Wicker Man again. Like, when I'm not actively dozing off throughout it's runtime, maybe.

Oh yeah, my number one is still to come. Would be incredibly surprised if it made the top spot, though.

At this point, I guess Motel Hell isn't going to place.

these are locks, I'd wager:

Exorcist
Shining
Wicker Man
DeadAlive/Braindead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Psycho
Carrie
EvilDead 2
Halloween
Suspiria

+ more Cronenberg

Out of my top ten, 4 have placed, I'm pretty sure 4 are a lock, one was never going to make it, and the other almost surely won't either, but if it does, that is going to be an awesome day.

ive seen all of those on the locks list except Suspiria. should really check that out some day.

I expect Carrie to burn this house down at some point.

Romero's gonna be dominatin' the top 25. And there's that one movie where apparently nobody can hear anybody screaming...

the shining is going to be too high goddammit

Impossible.

I'm assuming these will place, too:

Rosemary's Baby
Salem's Lot
Repulsion
The Thing
Eraserhead

I feel super, super confident that anything that hasn't placed from my top 15 will wind up in the top 25. Aside from my #4 (TESTAMENT, YOU HEATHENS!!!!), whose now-inevitable absence apparently has me in the throes of the 'anger' stage of grieving.