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

after the first couple viewings, i think i would have just gone outside

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

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.

damn u guys took Eraserhead personally. It's not real you know. I mean, look at his hair.

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.

"If at first you don't succeed, DIE, DIE AGAIN!"

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14. EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN
Sam 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)

also now that I think about it it might have been 13 times (7 on Saturday, 6 on Sunday)

this story is completely insane!

<3 that you chose the 'Farewell to Arms' shot. Awesome.

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

Taking a short break before doing the last 3 titles today.

Evil Dead 2 too low muthafuckas but yaaaay

GROOVY

first one didn't place yet, right? that's cool that it'll beat out the sequel.

first one was #31 in yesterday's rollout.

whoops, my terrible brane at work again. I even posted about it.

Love ED2. But as I get older, I love it less and love the original more.

same here

yeah, ditto.

just hit the 500 movie limit on my netflix queue. thanks a lot, ilx horror poll.

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, May 23, 2012 4:24 PM (22 minutes ago)

one question, were you roommates with buff or max?

massive lol

sometimes I worry about those two

hopefully they're not squirrelled away in a hole somewhere

massive lol

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:55 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

o man that eraserhead screengrab

keep scrolling back up to bust a chuckle

More more more, c'mown.

Re: the Scanners exploding head, I can't be the only one who read Fangoria, rights. I thought that was a well known effect - a combination of a rubber head filled with pet food and stage blood, inflated and then blasted with a shotgun.

ps megalolz at someone voting in a genre he explicitly doesn't care for dismissing one of the genre's acknowledged classics as "a silly little horror film."

You'd think that people would have had enough of silly horror films. But I look around me and see that it isn't so.

Nice.

I won't list them, and don't think it would fair for anyone to do so at this point, but I think I've got the last 13. (Of the Top 10 predictions I jotted down a couple of days ago, two have already turned up.)

#11-#13 in a few more minutes.

Re: the Scanners exploding head, I can't be the only one who read Fangoria, rights.

oh yeah, i was a regular fango reader for many years (cinefex too, plus stuff like savini's books). the details have apparently gotten a little hazy with time, though. now that you mention it, i do remember that recipe.

Pretty sure they actually blew up someone's head, iirc.

my 5th grade teacher was so revulsed when he discovered me reading fangoria #12 in his classroom that he tore it to shreds and threw it in the garbage. man that sucked.

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dude seriously had a minor nervous breakdown

my parents never let me buy fangoria :'(

didn't embed that img on purpose, didn't want somebody's boss to walk by and try to tear your monitor to pieces

xxxxpost they blew up a real dude's head while Donald Sutherland was actually fucking Julie Christie

the fangoria article on how they got julie christie to actually fuck donald sutherland, now that was some classic reporting

You guys are grossly underestimating the appeal of Donald Sutherland.

operative word in that sentence being gross

bet you're a big eye of the needle fan, huh

I have a weird aversion to Donald Sutherland. I don't mind him as an actor but he doesn't make me say "Oh jeez" if you know what I mean.

I've never seen it, but he was great in Klute. I'm just saying that he's not a repulsive wildebeest -- he's Donald Sutherland! He's got those eyebrows and a warm way about him.

Iirc he also has a nice resonant voice.

"William Peter BLECCHY used to collect for UNICEF in my 'hood!"

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13. THE EXORCIST
William Friedkin, USA, 1973
(862 points, 25 votes, 1 first-place vote)

The Exorcist" leaves so many gaps - not the least of which is WHO possesses Reagan (in the book it is Captain Howdy, in the film Friedkin never explains) and WHY he has done so. Also - considering the spirits all encompassing power (managing to transform into Jason Miller's mother in a terrible bit of sudden, choppy editing) then it does do a pretty good job of staying tied to a bed and washed away by fake holy water.
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, July 16, 2004 8:05 PM (7 years ago)

all of its performances, considered without the central, extreme horror that powers the movie, are ham-fests. Watch it a scene at a time, or twice in a row, and it's laughable. Oh! the tortured mother and oh! the tortured priest and oh! the other *really* tortured priest... if it weren't so scary, it would be the most lampooned movie in history.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, July 17, 2004 12:52 AM (7 years ago)

There was a priest in my high school who allegedly was part of a team of Jesuits who provided counsel to the Friedkin during the making of The Exorcist, and we always used to pester him about it. He'd always get very grave and say things like, "boys, there are certain things that are better left well alone." He may have been just messin' with us, but it always gave us a bit of a chill.
(insert predictable but sadly unavoidable naughty priest joke here)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, July 17, 2004 2:52 AM (7 years ago)

o-kay

Oooooh, outside the top 10... very interesting.

wow had NO idea that Fangoria was still around

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Number 13!

Not top 10? Now I have no clue what's going to happen. That was my #3.

I had Fangos as a preteen & hid them under shelves in brown paper bag like they were Playboys. BUT not bc of parents but bc they freaking terrified me. The worst was one with a cover of the melting-face vampire in the tub from Lost Boys. Fleeting in actual movie, of course.

Oh jeez. His mustache clasps my hips. It sets a punishing rhythm - in, out, in that order. Oh jeez. I have been studying Quicken.