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

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.

Yeah, Darin, you and Shakey are fairly OTM, I reckon.

xxxxpost yeah Alien and let's not forget Poltergeist...?

xxpost With the possible exception of Salem's Lot. Not that I personally oppose it.

wasn't sure how horror movie partisans in general felt about voting for stuff that is nominally sci-fi/action (Alien, Videodrome, The Thing etc)

I didn't vote for the Shining, completely forgot about it. I'm sure it will do fine without me tho so meh

It may be bias, but I'd be surprised to see Salem's Lot place this high. It just isn't that good.

I am starting to worry that some of my more beloved but non-canonical stuff is not gonna make it - God Told Me To, Basket Case, Society

yeah Salem's Lot is iffy since a lot of folks probably discounted it due to it's tv status, too

lol I wouldn't hold out too much hope for Basket Case!

If I don't see Poltergeist …

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

Awww Basket Case. That probably won't place but I mourn its absence with you.

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

:(

(I am dispirited at the lack of confidence in Motel Hell, here - not suggesting it is out of the running, by any means..)

But who will mourn The Human Centipede with me? ;_;;_;;_;

the shining is going to be too high goddammit

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how is this not one of the greatest horror films of all time? Are you arguing genre?

I hadn't really considered that the sci-fi thing might compromise votes for Alien and The Thing (don't think Videodrome will make it, but I've already been wrong about approximately 57 things wrt these results). They might wind up towards the bottom of the 25 as a result, but I'm confident they'll show up.

Motel Hell is allright but I didn't vote for it, a bit too slow in places. Harvest sequences are amazing though.