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

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.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ohMEEHvPoY8/ShI16I38OCI/AAAAAAAAABY/l5auQPXZq5w/s1600/fangoria2.jpg

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.

really ratcheting up the suspense for the top 10 here!

lol xp

It's time to keep your appointment...

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

Major surprise for me--major! (I thought it would come very close to winning.)

xxxpost LOL I do want to note that I was not implying anything less than handsomeness for 70s donald sutherland. He was hot (no homo).

I think I probably told my story on the other thread about my sister and I wanting to watch The Exorcist when it aired on CBS, but I can't remember.

Finally I can unburden myself.

UNTIL 1 WEEK AGO I HAD NEVER SEEN THE EXORCIST EVEN THOUGH I'D SEEN EXORCIST II MULTIPLE TIMES

sob

Great still--you see Max von Sydow with his head bowed, and you think you've wandered into a Bergman countdown.

Night of the Living Dead. Return of the Living Dead. Alien? Um, Last House? Suspiria? The Thing, The Fly? Psycho, Chainsaw. I'm thrown off by "Jaws" being so low, and now "The Exorcist" ...

His mustache clasps my hips. It sets a punishing rhythm - in, out, in that order.

Is this "Shades of Grey?"

All actors kill it in this flick & so does Friedkin, the end.

lol @ William Peter Bleccchy

he was a total babe in The Dirty Dozen, though not as hot as Cassevetes

"That Catherine Deneuve sure has an interesting recipe for HASENPFE-FEAR!!"

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12. REPULSION
Roman Polanski, UK, 1965
(863 points, 26 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Repulsion is, according to my shrink father, an accurate rendition of what it's like to be a schizophrenic.
― warmsherry, Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:02 PM (3 years ago)

Repulsion and The Tenant are Polanski's two best films; it's true that they're similar to Rosemary's baby, but they're both better (none of the religious stuff, just pure closed space pcycho-drama).
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, December 15, 2003 4:44 AM (8 years ago)

Repulsion was made in '65, dude. shit was shocking as fuck back then.
― the table is the table, Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:36 PM (3 years ago)

i think my fav. thing abt this thread is how many ppl like to gratuitously post some combination of "anal" "rape" "child" and "13 year old"
― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:56 AM (2 years ago)

Everyone who saw and liked "Black Swan" should be forced to watch "Repulsion" until they know better.

Known forever in my home as Replusion because of the spelling error on the DVD case (at least the one i first saw).
This movie ruuuuuuules.

Terrifying:

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Anyone who voted for it, I've gotta hand it to you. (Sorry--too much time looking at this poll.)

i liked black swan because it was like a funny version of repulsion

"anal" "rape" "child" and "13 year old" btw

HASENPFE-FEAR!!

goat

xposts I actually argued against using that still with Pillbox because I thought it constituted a minor spoiler, but hopefully almost everyone who contributed to this poll has seen the movie already.

Alien? yes, this is ilx dude
Um, Last House? maybe? kind of a wild card tbh
Suspiria? yes, this is ilx dude
The Thing, yes, this is ilx dude
The Fly? yes, this is ilx dude

Awww, was really expecting Repulsion to make it into the top ten. My number one. That fragmentation of mind is probably the most terrifying thing to me.

That flashed across my mind, Eric, and I went ahead anyway--maybe shouldn't have.