Videodrome was my no.7. would've voted for Dawn but I knew it was gonna make it and wanted to throw some weight behind some longshots
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
My irrational complaint about Videodrome is I CANNOT ABIDE JAMES WOODS. I will accept no rebuttals.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
woah dawn is crazy low
― da croupier, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Love love love Halloween, Carpenter rules and I cannot BELIEVE Dawn is not top 10. geez ilx
also jjj I'm riding with you on Eli Roth, I dug the hell out of Cabin Fever and I actually liked both Hostel movies too
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
one of the things I love about Convex is that the actor nails that patronizingly avuncular brand of evil. very WS Burroughs-ish.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
God I wish Eli Roth would make more fucking movies already
― da croupier, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Was totally expecting Dawn to be top ten. Didn't vote for any of the ...Dead movies, mind you. Not that I dislike them, just didn't make the room for them. I did, however, vote for Videodrome. Great film.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
eh, night of the living dead deserves to go top 10, maybe even top 5. somewhere in the lower half of the top 20 is fine for dawn.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
re: roth: looks like he's directing the first ep of a tv show due out this year called Hemlock Grove? will watch imo...and something called Green Inferno due out in 2014
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Does this mean Day of the Dead could place ahead of Dawn?
Love this film to bits. And it has tense moments. But certainly not a scary film overall, and the make-up is hilariously lousy and low-budget. Doesn't matter: the concept is genius, and it's the only possible sequel that could have so successfully followed Night.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
I love that whole stretch where they're just living in the mall, going out to dinner in the empty restaurant, walking around in fur coats...
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
"Here's a movie I imagine jjjusten would like to ERASE from the HEAD of these results!"
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15. ERASERHEADDavid Lynch, USA, 1977(790 points, 22 votes)
My Dad honestly thought that my sister's Eraserhead video was a tape head cleaner...― Jez, Friday, September 20, 2002 6:08 AM (9 years ago)I always get frightened by the part where Eraserhead runs around the house wearing a hockey mask.― jeff, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:20 PM (4 years ago)I think my favorite story from that doc is how lynch had a paper route while making eraserhead and iirc he solicited money to finish the film from the ppl he delivered to― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:32 PM (11 months ago)
I always get frightened by the part where Eraserhead runs around the house wearing a hockey mask.― jeff, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:20 PM (4 years ago)
I think my favorite story from that doc is how lynch had a paper route while making eraserhead and iirc he solicited money to finish the film from the ppl he delivered to― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:32 PM (11 months ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
the only Dead entry I voted for was Return of the Living Dead as it is my sentimental favorite. I assume it's not going to place now.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Not Videodrome, but I once had a course in French film with a guy who had his head exploded in Scanners.
went to a cronenberg q&a session recently and he told a story about filming that iconic head explosion scene from the beginning of scanners. effect just was just not working out at first and the head was just fizzling and not exploding in a very satisfactory way at all. this happens a couple times and the head effects guy (who's from nyc) eventually gets frustrated, says, "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS LIKE WE DO IN NEW YAWK!" and grabs a shotgun. they use that instead and they get the take we all know and love.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
eraserhead is the other genuinely frightening movie i can think of. i tried to watch it by myself at night and had to turn it off after the mutant baby scene.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
AWESOME, i had legit fears that would like place in the top 5 or worse win this whole thing
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
I would imagine that Night and Dawn would have taken the votes; would be surprised if Day makes it at all.
Eraserhead IS TOO HORROR. Also wonderful, of course.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ jez's quote
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
it's so weird to me that Eraserhead came out in the 70s. it seems like such an 80s (or even early 90s) film
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Question for Pillbox -- is that a single typeface you used for the film titles, with the serifed lowercase characters and sans-serif capitals?
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
i tried to watch it by myself at night and had to turn it off after the mutant baby scene.
Did you finish it? Cuz the mutant baby scenes get a whole lot worse.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
this happens a couple times and the head effects guy (who's from nyc) eventually gets frustrated, says, "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS LIKE WE DO IN NEW YAWK!" and grabs a shotgun. they use that instead and they get the take we all know and love.
not to be the jerk i clearly am, but is this true? can it possibly be true? i ask cuz i spent a lot of time still-framing through that head explosion as a kid, and it looks like an inflation effect. the guy's head swells up like a balloon before it bursts. maybe they did both, air pump and shotgun blast?
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, eraserhead goes on a very short list as one of the most distressing and depressing films i've ever seen. the first two-thirds are sort of grotesquely, blackly funny, but the last act is soul-crushing.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think I've told this story before but my college roommate has a super obsessive mother who rented Eraserhead one weekend and made the entire family watch it 10 times in quick succession. She also painted Disintegration-inspired murals all over their bathroom after my roommate brought home copies of my Cure albums.
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
good lord!
― Darin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
I think his youngest brother was 12 at the time...?
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
I had one of those crazy mid-80s Guild Asbury basses which was the size of a ukelele and had the big fat silicone strings, and we always called it 'the Eraserhead Baby Bass'
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
xp whoaaa
i never finished eraserhead, no
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
in response to an early incration of the template design for these, Eric likened certain elements to a "silent movie title card," which I thought was cool and just sort of ran with. So I used a mashup of trad Art Nouveau & Deco fonts for the titles & numbering (Fletcher Gothic for #s, Cassanet for large caps, & Arlt for smaller type). The rest of the info is a German sans font called DIN, which is pretty similar to Futura.
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
wait ..it's behind the jump and the thread's too big to open on my phone...halloween wasn't top ten?
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
also now that I think about it it might have been 13 times (7 on Saturday, 6 on Sunday)
basically it was a super insane story that made every other story seem normal, like of COURSE she made the entire family camp out overnight for Cure tickets, this was the woman who made her kids watch Eraserhead a dozen times in a row
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
after the first couple viewings, i think i would have just gone outside
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
this happens a couple times and the head effects guy (who's from nyc) eventually gets frustrated, says, "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS LIKE WE DO IN NEW YAWK!" and grabs a shotgun. they use that instead and they get the take we all know and love.not to be the jerk i clearly am, but is this true? can it possibly be true? i ask cuz i spent a lot of time still-framing through that head explosion as a kid, and it looks like an inflation effect. the guy's head swells up like a balloon before it bursts. maybe they did both, air pump and shotgun blast?― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
maybe I'm fudging some of the details due to my faulty brain but that's the gist of what cronenberg said. not sure if that makes it true or not, I suppose he could have been messing with us.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
damn u guys took Eraserhead personally. It's not real you know. I mean, look at his hair.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
First saw this as a teen, on a shitty TV, on a sunny, noisy Sunday morning in my family's busy living room before watching NFL football. And it still freaked me out.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
"If at first you don't succeed, DIE, DIE AGAIN!"
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14. EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWNSam Raimi, USA, 1987(849 points, 26 votes)
Evil Dead 2 = best film ever, obv.― DG (D_To_The_G), Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:19 PM (8 years ago)I can't understand someone NOT liking this.― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:58 PM (2 years ago)
I can't understand someone NOT liking this.― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:58 PM (2 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
this story is completely insane!
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
<3 that you chose the 'Farewell to Arms' shot. Awesome.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
I liked Eraserhead, blew my everloving mind when I first saw it and I still really dig the freaky sound-design. But it would not be on my ballot for this particular poll, and I can't say I'm not a little bummed that it polled higher than say, Halloween & Dawn
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Taking a short break before doing the last 3 titles today.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Evil Dead 2 too low muthafuckas but yaaaay
GROOVY
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
first one didn't place yet, right? that's cool that it'll beat out the sequel.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
first one was #31 in yesterday's rollout.
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
whoops, my terrible brane at work again. I even posted about it.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Love ED2. But as I get older, I love it less and love the original more.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
same here
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, ditto.
just hit the 500 movie limit on my netflix queue. thanks a lot, ilx horror poll.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:24 PM (22 minutes ago)
one question, were you roommates with buff or max?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link