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

"Trick or STABBY HORROR!"

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18. HALLOWEEN
John Carpenter, USA, 1978
(662 points, 21 votes)

i think he invented techno with the halloween soundtrack. okay, maybe not, but listen to it some time. he was some sort of pioneer with that thing.
― scott seward, Thursday, May 1, 2003 2:11 PM (9 years ago)

The way he shoots the suburban streets in Halloween makes them seem so desolate and menacing.
― PVC (peeveecee), Thursday, May 1, 2003 2:27 PM (9 years ago)

Halloween (easily one of his least inspired and atypically cold)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, May 2, 2003 4:34 PM (9 years ago)

Just all around awesome.

hostel didn't do much for me, but the sequel is pretty damn good. never considered voting for it, but i did enjoy watching it.

and josh in chicago otm, re: night of the creeps. silly, but a hell of a lot of fun.

SotD has a sitcom sensibility, clever and ironic, with a distanced affection for the horror genre. dead alive, otoh, is completely the product of splatter movie fan culture. it's anarchic, fucked up and fully committed to the genre.

nicely put

christ finally an actual out-and-out horror movie

just watched the hostel trailer and yeah, that was prob a good way to cash in the saw momentum, but its far from representative. all of the eli roth stuff shares a smart heart that doesnt come across in the marketing campaigns tbh, cabin fever is also an underrated gem.

i think he invented techno with the halloween soundtrack. okay, maybe not, but listen to it some time. he was some sort of pioneer with that thing.
― scott seward, Thursday, May 1, 2003 2:11 PM (9 years ago)

OTM ... also, he wrote this (from the season of the witch piece o' shit):

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

wait cabin fever didnt place either right? bah

I don't really care for Halloween personally, but I knew it was coming and I sort of get why people like it, it just doesn't do anything for me.

halloween is totally solid, more compelling to me than F13 or NOES

I'll admit that I didn't pick any Eli Roth movies because mostly I hate how good he looks covered in fake blood.

dont watch the horseshit remake tho, and i say that as a guy that will rep for the remakes for both the hills have eyes and last house on the left. which makes me realize that neither of those originals seem to have made the cut either?!

xpost hahaha eric

Thanks to all who remembered to vote for Night of the Hunter and Vampyr.

Here's a film we can enter into the not-horror sweepstakes. But I guarantee it's one of the scariest and most horrifying you'll ever see:

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i mean, john carpenter is probably just as responsible for a generation of candy-ravers on account of the "silver shamrock" song as kubrick is responsible for furries b/c of That Scene in the shining!

Anyone ever seen Foster's Release, the babysitter in peril short that allegedly inspired Halloween?

halloween is totally solid, more compelling to me than F13 or NOES

definitely agree

i can make a pretty impassioned argument for the hostel movies doing all that deconstruction of horror stuff that people claim for lots of other movies but ive said it all before i suppose so i dont want to broken record this thread. i dont really remember the trailer at all so let me go watch it and get back to you on that.

― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

I can get behind this, I suppose - not as self-righteous as Funny Games, as pretentious as Martyrs or as fanboyish as Cabin in the Woods. I like both Hostels (esp. a lot more than the likes of Saw movies, The TCM remake & a lot of mainstream American torture-spectacles of the time). Cabin Fever has its merits as well, tho I couldn't quite make room for any Eli Roth flicks in my top 50.

halloween was one of my canon cuts, deep respect for it tho and if it's the only late 70s/early 80s slasher flick that places I'm ok w/ that

also soundtrack is one of the GOAT, the contributions the soundtracks make to this and assault on precinct 13 are immeasurable

Love this quote form Eli Roth's IMDB page:

Eli Roth began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight, after watching Ridley Scott's Alien and vomiting, and deciding he wanted to be a producer/director.

<3 the well-chosen minimalistic elements of Halloween - the soundtrack obv & the inside-out Shatner mask.

I love Halloween. I know it's corny (e.g., the way Donald Pleasance portentously says "evil") and has various other flaws big and small, but beyond just how scary it is, I also love it as a period piece--it conjures up the late '70s as immediately for me as Saturday Night Fever or anything else.

cheap shock windowpane-breaking jump in Halloween really soured me on it

Just that?

I love the sneaks they used to make it look like Illinois in So Cal. They brought in some leaves and then desaturated the print to make the trees and leaves more brown. Clever.

Also: "(Don't Fear) the Reaper"!

so eric, counting down to 11 today and then rolling out the top ten tomorrow i assume

i am now actively rooting for eraserhead just so it doesnt make the top ten fyi

Yes x 3 on B.O.C.

I think half the girls I had crushes on high school were good-girl Lauries, and the other half were bad-girl Annies. I do not, regretfully, remember anybody in my school the equal of P.J. Soles.

I did have Halloween in the middle of my ballot, but honestly I've seen it and its many imitators and progeny SO many times now that it's hard to either recall its initial impact on me or find anything worth re-seeing in it. That said, I can't begrudge it its original effect, or its importance in the canon or the industry.

(That said, the closing shot of the beginning, before the titles, bugs the ever-loving shit out of me. Michael's parents discover him and take the mask off, SHOCK IT'S A CHILD OMG, and then . . . everyone in the scene freezes, "Police Squad!"-style, but instead of it being a freeze-frame or a fade, Carpenter does this big crane-up/pull-back, and everyone is standing there like they're playing freeze tag.)

dont watch the horseshit remake tho,

Hmmmmm . . . Carpenter's Halloween > Zombie's Halloween II > Zombie's Halloween > Rick Rosenthal's Halloween II

between halloween, carrie, and rock n roll high school, preteen me found PJ soles to be a very fascinating concept

^^ Don't forget Stripes

didnt she start in pr0n?

Phil D. otm - RZ's sequel is better than his remake of the first, prob mostly b/c he didn't feel as indebted to the source material. That said, I think the first remake was respectfully done, even if the end result didn't end up standing on its own all that well. It was certainly nowhere near as effective a genre-throwback as The Devil's Rejects, at least.

bite your tongue!

xp

Wipe the smirk off your face, Norma. (Sorry for jumping the gun.)

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re: PJ soles

John Carpenter wanted her for his film Halloween after seeing Carrie.[1] He wrote the part of Lynda especially for her because of the way she said the word "totally".

didnt she start in pr0n?

never been substantiated afaict

"If I were James Woods, I'd change the channel to ESPN -- Evil Scary Porn Network!"

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17. VIDEODROME
David Cronenberg, Canada, 1983
(673 points, 23 votes)

memorable scenee: james woods watching softcore samurai porno
― ' ( *_*) ERROR HANDLING (^_^ ) (Alan N), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:59 PM (2 years ago)

Videodrome was probably my favorite movie when I was 23/24.
― sarahel, Monday, November 9, 2009 7:48 PM (Yesterday)

only for that one split second?? cold
― goole, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:09 PM (2 years ago)

nah - for about a year and a half.
― sarahel, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:12 PM (2 years ago)

...and then Good Burger came out
― fel (latebloomer), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:23 PM (2 years ago)

Videodrome c/d

(Yes, going to try to get up to 11 today, and then the top 10 tomorrow.)

jjj's rage on this thread is basically the setup for our own ILX horror movie, The Angriest Rothstan, where messageboard posters go mysteriously missing after disparaging the works of Eli Roth and the crack duo of Ned and ENBB follow the grisly clues to a horrifying stand off in a WSP guitar shop

btw I had this post ready to go an hour ago but had to pause my participation for a conference call, so even though it's now hopelessly late I'm posting it anyway because I am inordinately proud of The Angriest Rothstan

thank god cuz this thread was about to devolve into a PJ soles youtube channel

Videodrool

there's really nothing to say about videodrome tho, let's move on

pomo film academics love Videodrome b/c dude GOES INTO THE TELEVISION

back to your regularly scheduled programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJ-KeJzSyg

She looks like Lynn Redgrave's Baby Jane in that preview image.

it's a rare thing not to have been bonny once

long live the new flesh and all that

James Woods shooting "Barry Convex" with that gun that shoots teeth, after which Convex basically slowly explodes, is one of the freakiest things I've ever seen in a movie. Honestly I don't know how he got an R rating with that.

PJ Soles' personal-life timeline for 1983 is p hilar in her wiki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyPVOrga9FA#t=127s

If you live here, picking out all the Toronto-centric stuff in Videodrome is extra fun.