"William Peter BLECCHY used to collect for UNICEF in my 'hood!"
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13. THE EXORCISTWilliam 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)
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)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
o-kay
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oooooh, outside the top 10... very interesting.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
wow had NO idea that Fangoria was still around
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― Darin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
Number 13!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
Not top 10? Now I have no clue what's going to happen. That was my #3.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
Oh jeez. His mustache clasps my hips. It sets a punishing rhythm - in, out, in that order. Oh jeez. I have been studying Quicken.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
really ratcheting up the suspense for the top 10 here!
lol xp
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
It's time to keep your appointment...
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
Major surprise for me--major! (I thought it would come very close to winning.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
Finally I can unburden myself.
UNTIL 1 WEEK AGO I HAD NEVER SEEN THE EXORCIST EVEN THOUGH I'D SEEN EXORCIST II MULTIPLE TIMES
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
sob
Great still--you see Max von Sydow with his head bowed, and you think you've wandered into a Bergman countdown.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
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?"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
All actors kill it in this flick & so does Friedkin, the end.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ William Peter Bleccchy
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
he was a total babe in The Dirty Dozen, though not as hot as Cassevetes
― sarahell, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
"That Catherine Deneuve sure has an interesting recipe for HASENPFE-FEAR!!"
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12. REPULSIONRoman 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)
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)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
Everyone who saw and liked "Black Swan" should be forced to watch "Repulsion" until they know better.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
i liked black swan because it was like a funny version of repulsion
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
Alien? yes, this is ilx dudeUm, Last House? maybe? kind of a wild card tbhSuspiria? yes, this is ilx dudeThe Thing, yes, this is ilx dudeThe Fly? yes, this is ilx dude
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
That flashed across my mind, Eric, and I went ahead anyway--maybe shouldn't have.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
repulsion is great, but doesn't have the wider appeal of that other movie
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
gonna stop speculating before jjjusten shows up and yells at me
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
repulsion is another film i pushed down into the southern half of my ballot for reasons that i can't now defend or even really recall. glad it finished in the top 20, though i suppose there wasn't ever any reason to doubt that it would.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
once wrote a college paper on feminism and madness in repulsion and carnival of souls
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
"Be a FLY! Be very a FLY!"
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11. THE FLYDavid Cronenberg, USA, 1986(871 points, 29 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Let's begin with The Fly, shall we? Cronenberg says it's his meditation on aging and the strange decay of the human body, though "meditation" may be laying it on a bit thick. Still, there are so many good things about this movie. Goldblum is as good as he's ever been, nerdy and nervous at first, then scary but cracking wise to the bitter appendage-sprouting end. Geena Davis is serviceable enough -- I wonder if they cast her because she was a good match in height? The big effects date badly -- the emergence from the skin at the end looks like rubber, and the vomit-on-the-hand thing is the same cheese effect used for face-melting in Indiana Jones. But it's the details that get you. The hair coming out of the wound. The oozing fingertips. The vomiting. You're thanking the heavens they don't actually show him "eating." It's all the little stuff that adds up to one of the most genuinely icky movies I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of other Cronenberg, so that's saying something.― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, May 23, 2005 10:13 PM (7 years ago)"The Fly" is still his triumph to me; an accessible, disgusting romantic comedy/tragedy derived from a '50s B movie (and the peak of its two stars). It had the emotion and resonance (AHoV) only has in jolts.― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:57 AM (6 years ago)i thought i'd heard he said the fly was about how in a love affair one person always turns into a monster. and of course the reading at the time was 'it's about aids'.― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, May 23, 2005 10:16 PM (7 years ago)Is The Fly his 'Daydream Nation'?― Soukesian, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:01 AM (2 years ago)
"The Fly" is still his triumph to me; an accessible, disgusting romantic comedy/tragedy derived from a '50s B movie (and the peak of its two stars). It had the emotion and resonance (AHoV) only has in jolts.― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:57 AM (6 years ago)
i thought i'd heard he said the fly was about how in a love affair one person always turns into a monster. and of course the reading at the time was 'it's about aids'.― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, May 23, 2005 10:16 PM (7 years ago)
Is The Fly his 'Daydream Nation'?― Soukesian, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:01 AM (2 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
And now, I leave you to police yourselves about the movies that have yet to place.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
I made a post on ilx once about the rampant symbolism in repulsion and someone asked what the rabbit symbolized and I was like, really?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
Edward III I think if you say jjjusten's name 3 times he shows up, isn't that how it works?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
only if you're posting drunk at midnight
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
The Fly is the first one that's placed exactly where it was on my ballot!
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
repulsion is a great movie to intermittently nap to
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
i am way less concerned w/ballot guessing now that weve hit the top ten, although obv i prefer to do mine by gnashing my teeth and wailing about stuff that has no chance of placing and thus got shut out of the top 100 in favor of lesser trifles.
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:45 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
^ this
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
no hostel or other roth stuff, no human centipede, day of the dead not going to make it but thank goodness pontypool and the cabin in the woods got their fair shake huh
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
I love Repulsion, and though I prefer it, I'm tired of the "I liked it the first time, when it was called Repulsion" attitude towards Black Swan. Different films with similar themes and, to a degree, styles. Big fan of both.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well. It's clear that SOMEONE on this thread has never been a woman with mental troubles. *flounces*
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
I missed a few days and had to just scroll through to see what placed, but I hope at the end of this there will be separate page/tumblr/whatever with just the image countdown. Got some friends who would love to see this.
so I guess Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is way past the chance of making it now
so in no order:
The ShiningRosemary's BabyAlienThe ThingSuspiriaWicker ManLast HouseCarriePsychoTexas Chain Saw Massacre
― Chris S, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, would definitely love that. There's a precedent for it, so nobody should mind.
xpost
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link